Rob Summerlin is an award-winning storyteller and merrymaker who moves between illustration, music, film, and performance. He is character-obsessed, specifically with characters who are slightly out of step with reality.
     
Rob is Queer, French, and American living on the unceded ancestral land of the Ramaytush Ohlone.



Residencies etc.

- Shakespeare & Co, Tumbleweed 2013
- Aspen Institute Poetry Workshop 2017
- Alchemy Arts Center, San Juan, WA 2023

- Artist Against Apartheid, 2024 - Present


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BERTIE
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 Publisher: Irrelevant Press
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Bertie is the true story of King Edward VII. Generational trickle-down trauma. Royal debauchery. A boy who just wants to be loved.




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