Jamar Nicholas

Jamar Nicholas

Jamar Nicholas is an award-winning, Philadelphia-based artist and educator. He has taught and lectured on the topic of comics creation at numerous institutions, dedicating his career to empowering young people to create their own cartoons and comics, helping them realize the power of visual narrative.

Some of his works include adapting and illustrating Geoffrey Canada’s Fist Stick Knife Gun; full-color comic strip, Detective Boogaloo: Hip-Hop Cop, that was serialized in the US Metro newspapers (Philadelphia, NYC and Boston), and his upcoming original graphic novel Leon: Protector of the Playground.