Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Jamie Smart

About this episode

Lucy chats with comic book artist Jamie Smart to celebrate 50 episodes of Comic Boom.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Lucy chats to comic book artist, writer and illustrator Jamie Smart It feels he needs no introduction! I celebrate 50* episodes of comic boom, with the one, the only, Jamie Smart. Jamie’s characters and the colourful worlds they inhabit have graced the pages of many a national institutions; The Dandy, The Beano, The DFC and The Phoenix. His long running weekly strip 'Bunny Vs Monkey' is still going strong in The Phoenix and is collated into the hugely popular,...

People in this episode

Host: Lucy Starbuck Braidley

Guest: Jamie Smart

Topics covered

• comics
• education
• art
• illustration
• children's literature

Keywords

• comic books
• Jamie Smart
• Bunny Vs Monkey
• The Dandy
• The Beano
• education
• illustration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Dandy, The Beano, The DFC, The Phoenix

Books & works: Bunny Vs Monkey

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