Jamie Smart

@jamiesmart.bsky.social

I make comics. Bunny Vs Monkey, Looshkin, Megalomaniacs, Flember, Fish Head Steve, Max And Chaffy, and Super Duper Bunny League coming to Nickleodeon in 2024!

Do you remember 15 or so years ago when there was like a couple of days where everything was cake pops. Books about cake pops. Lovely cake pops. Then they just disappeared again.

If you’re thinking about getting the X-Files Lego set, if you get a Lego Insider account then the set is available on their website early (ie today), and while stocks last you also get Scully’s lab as a free gift 🚀 JUST. SAYING.

Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911-Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was read nationally in the US. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll.

A black and white photo of Ormes.A black and white photo of Ormes at her drawing table.A black and white photo of Ormes with Patty Jo & Benjie dolls.

It is a bit mad, if you think about it, that one of the biggest movies in the world is about some lad being bit by a spider. And not only that, it’s the third retelling of it.

I just watched a video of a luxury house where it has two showers in the same bathroom, facing each other. One showerhead on the left of this screenshot, one on the right. WHO WOULD WANT TO SHOWER FACING SOMEONE I DONT UNDERSTAND.

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🥕 It’s been out for about a year now so I thought worth mentioning again - if you have Paramount Plus you can watch SUPER DUPER BUNNY LEAGUE, the tv show based on one of my books by *nearly* the same name! (Ignore mention of dates or new eps, this is a trailer from last year 🚀)

It’s one of life’s perpetual mysteries why Kwasi Kwarteng keeps being invited on GMB to be a pundit, or why he’s being weirdly defensive of Farage, until it was pointed out twice by the other presenters that Farage is an investor in his crypto company, because of course 🫠

🤯 THIS SATURDAY! GOSH COMICS! (Berwick Street, London). Come down and meet a host of brilliant comic artists, get things signed, etc etc. I don’t think it’s ticketed so you can just turn up (with so many brill artists though, I suspect it might be busy!) Timings below! 👇

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