Wikipedia / Jamie Smart
Wikipedia / Jamie Smart
Jamie Smart (born 21 July 1978) is a British comic artist and author best known for his comic series Bunny vs Monkey and his 10-issue comic series Bear. Most of his modern comics run through The Phoenix magazines.
The Phoenix
He is known for his children's cartoon series Bunny VS. Monkey, running in The Phoenix, created originally by Smart for a TV show. Other strips he has worked on at The Phoenix include Megalomaniacs, a repurposed The Dandy comic, Battlesuit Bea and Looshkin.
The Dandy
He was instrumental in the design of the October 2010 revamp of The Dandy and designing the new logos. For the revamp, Smart drew Desperate Dan, Pre-Skool Prime Minister, Arena of Awesome, My Dad's a Doofus (as well as many others) with reprints of My Own Genie and Space Raoul later being used. His blue blobs have been part of The Dandy cover since October 2010 and appeared in The Digital Dandy during its run.
For the final print edition of The Dandy on its 75th anniversary, Jamie Smart drew the special cover as well as drawing My Own Genie, My Dad's a Doofus, Pre-Skool Prime Minister and My Teacher's a Walrus in the Top 75 Countdown. A reprint from The Arena of Awesome was also used.
Other comics
Smart drew The Numskulls and Kingo Bango for the relaunched Digital Dandy until its demise. Smart also appeared regularly in The Beano drawing puzzle pages and took over drawing Roger the Dodger from Barrie Appleby, which as of April 2014, he no longer draws. He also drew a new strip for the comic called El Poco Loco in 2013.
In 2015, Smart started to publish his megalomaniac comics on the now defunct children's social media app PopJam.
Self-published comics include Moose Kid Comics, a free online all-ages anthology.
In October 2019, Smart's first illustrated novel, Flember: The Secret Book was released by David Fickling Books, which had previously published his collections of "Bunny VS Monkey" and "Looshkin". This was followed by the release of Flember: The Crystal Caves and Flember: The Glowing Skull. Smart also wrote the webcomic "Corporate Skull, which was published on The Guardian newspaper website.
List of published comics
Space Raoul ~ Funday Times/The Dandy
Bohda Te ~ Slave Labour Graphics
Ubu Bubu ~ Slave Labour Graphics
Desperate Dan ~ The Dandy
The DFC Olympics ~ The DFC
Fish-Head Steve ~ The DFC
Count Von Poo ~ Toxic magazine
Pre-Skool Prime Minister ~ The Dandy
The Arena of Awesome ~ The Dandy
Thingummyblob ~ The Dandy
Bunny VS. Monkey ~ The Phoenix and David Fickling Books
Mega-Lo-Maniacs ~ The Phoenix/The Dandy/PopJam
My Dad's A Doofus ~ The Dandy
My Teacher's a Walrus ~ The Dandy
The Numskulls ~ The Digital Dandy
Kingo Bango ~ The Digital Dandy
Roger the Dodger ~ The Beano
El Poco Loco ~ The Beano
Corporate Skull ~ Webcomic
Looshkin ~ (2018) The Phoenix and David Fickling Books
Battlesuit Bea ~ The Phoenix
Find Chaffy ~ (2011)
List of published novels
Flember series
The Secret Book (3 Oct 2019)
The Crystal Caves (1 Oct 2020)
The Glowing Skull (7 Oct 2021)
The Power of the Wildening (6 Oct 2022)
The Golden heart. (Nov 2025 ).
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