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Born in Kenton, Ohio, Robinson was the son of an iron moulder, and the Robinson family were farmers in Buck, Ohio by 1910.
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When Paul Robinson signed his draft card on September 12, 1918, he was living at 1219 West Jefferson in Sandusky, Ohio and working as a demurrage railway clerk in the local Big Four freight offices. On June 21, 1919, the Sandusky Register reported that Robinson had left Sandusky two months earlier to begin his new career as an artist at the Bray Productions animation studios in New New York He began doing panels and strips for the Central Press Association, continuing with King Features Syndicate after Central Press was purchased by King Features in 1930.
In the mid-1920s, Robinson took over the Samson and Delia strip from Tim Early and the screenwriter and short story author, H. C. Witwer.
Another Robinson feature of the 1920s was his single-panel series Just Among Us Girls. In 1932, Robinson found success with The strip about teenager began as a way to teach etiquette to teens, hence its name.
Robinson also drew The Love-Byrds, about the cheerful couple Peggy and Howard Byrd, as a topper strip above "s poses, facial features and hair style are all similar to Peggy Byrd. ran in more than 50 American newspapers for almost 50 years, starting December 1925 and continuing until November 24, 1974. In 1957, Harvey Kurtzman lampooned the strip in his satirical Trump magazine.
Robinson lived at 14 Hillbury New Road in Essex Fells, New Jersey.
He was 76 years old when he died Saturday, September 21, 1974, at Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
