 The webcomic won a few awards, and "Bobbins" discontinuation in 2002 was followed by the start of "Scary Go Round", which shares most of "Bobbins" cast.John Allison had started drawing the characters in 1994 and experimented with them in various paper-comics until mid-1998 when he submitted a sample pack of 25 strips titled Bobbins — northwestern English slang for "crap" - to King Features Syndicate and Universal Features.They later rejected the submissions.