THE ART OF SEQUENTIAL 2011

HEY ALL!

If you live in the Philadelphia area and get down with the cartooning/comicking, I am the juror (in good standing!) for the Philadelphia Sketch Club's ART OF SEQUENTIAL gallery exhibition. Mike Manley and I were involved with the inaugural show a few summers ago and it was a great time. You should submit!

And if you don't know what the Sketch Club is, For Shame! It is only the oldest continuing artist's organization, which housed some of the greats behind its doors, like Thomas Eakins, N.C. Wyeth, Benton Spruance and on. This is no rinky-dink hole in the wall, and I'm honored to be a welcomed member.

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Cartoon and Sequential Art Exhibition at the Philadelphia Sketch Club June 5th through 12th 2011. 

Juror: Jamar Nicholas

Cash Awards in each category.
The Philadelphia Sketch Club has extended the deadline for entries into the Art of Sequential Exhibition. You can submit work on line at www.sketchclub.slideroom.com  3 entries for $30.

The deadline for submission is Friday, June 3rd at midnite!
Categories are: Sequential Comic Page, Sequential  one- page story or comic strip, Cover Art, and Character Pin Up Art.

Artists reception and awards will be on Sunday June 12 from 2 to 4 PM , with the awards presented at 3 PM.

You can hand deliver work to The Philadelphia Sketch Club on Saturday June 4th between 1 and 4 PM. Single walk in entries will still be accepted on Saturday for $15 each.

The Philadelphia Sketch Club is located at 235 S. Camac Street  in Philadelphia. The work will hang in the Sketch Club upstairs gallery  through June 12th .

A PDF of the exhibition prospectus is available here - click the link and download the PDF!

For more info on the Sketch Club, visit the site here.

2011 GLYPH COMICS AWARD WINNER!

  Story of the Year
Fist Stick Knife Gun; Geoffrey Canada, writer, Jamar Nicholas, artist

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Best Male Character
Geoff, Fist Stick Knife Gun; Geoffrey Canada, writer, Jamar Nicholas, artist

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 Rising Star Award
Jamar Nicholas, Fist Stick Knife Gun

I AM BLACK SCI-FI

Jamar featured in Philadelphia Daily News (Again)

                                                                                Photo by AUSTIN LEE

I'd like to go on record to say that all the times I've been in the newspaper, it's never been because I killed somebody.

Celebrate with me and read this feature covering FSKG and also some of my background and why I'm doing the work I'm currently involved in.

Indie Cred All-Star Redux

I have been asked to be in a group show with several of the creme de la creme of indy comics at the Arlington Arts Center in Virginia. The show will be on view until next year, so you have no excuse. Click the link to see my name with several others.

I can't wait!

PARTY CRASHERS

Comic Book Culture Invades the Art World

NOV 19, 2010 - JAN 16, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, November 19, 7 – 9 pm  Members only preview 6 - 7 pm
For a press release, click here.

PARTY CRASHERS mashes up comic art and contemporary gallery culture, and features artists who pass back and forth between the two worlds. This massive two venue show results from a crosstown collaboration between AAC Director of Exhibitions Jeffry Cudlin and Artisphere Gallery Director Cynthia Connolly. The show’s two independent halves feature different types of work: Connolly’s show presents fine artists who mimic the appearance of comic art; Cudlin’s show at AAC contains: alternative comic artists who also show their original pages and drawings in art galleries; fine and comic artists working side-by-side on a national curated project (Creative Time Comics); and fine and comic artists creating avante-garde, purely abstract sequential art without words or recognizable imagery.

JAMAR FEATURED IN COFFEE TABLE BOOK

image: John Jennings

I've had the good fortune of being featured in the new amazing coffee table book, 

BLACK COMIX: AFRICAN AMERICAN INDEPENDENT COMICS, ART AND CULTURE.

That's a mouthful, but what you see here is a snapshot of what authors John Jennings and Damian Duffy saw as a missing piece in the comic book puzzle: where the voices of African American cartoonists were and if they're being heard. 

Maybe you've never thought about where the black indy comics folk are, but now you can. I'm honored to be in such company. 

The book is on sale and available at Amazon, so scoop it up!
Also, check out some of the other fine work John and Damian are responsible for.

Jamar Gets a Book Deal!

The big story of the past season is that I am proud to announce that I will be illustrating a 150+ page graphic adaption of Geoffrey Canada's FIST STICK KNIFE GUN: A Personal History of Violence in America.

You can read more about the acquisition as my publisher, Beacon Press gives some quick PR treatment.

Also here is my first blog post on the Beacon Broadside, Beacon's blog.

I will be posting there during my time creating the book and updating the readers with illustration progress reports. I'm real happy about this, and hope that while you're waiting for me to finish drawing, you snatch up the original memoirs.

I'm very proud to be attached to this project, and hope you check out what Geoff Canada is talking about. If you live in NYC, you probably already know who he is. Peep the Youtoobs. Even the president knows what's up.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Geoffrey Canada

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Funny Political News

Christian Bale Parody
Joke of the Day

Jamar E. Nicholas: HANDSOME GENIUS!

Hey yo!

Yours truly was a recent guest on my good friend Anthony Kingdom James' ill pod/blogcast called THE HANDSOME GENIUS CLUB. I am now a Handsome Genius, so you have to live with it. Please visit his site, and listen to Kingdom and I rant about the Eagles/Steelers meeting in the superbowl (NOT GONNA HAPPEN NOW - THANKS IGGLES!), the best cheesesteak in Philly, and my cartooning career so far. Also a great spoiler that I haven't put on the blog yet, so if you pay attention, you'll hear what it is.

Kingdom's interviews are filled with geekitry like comics, sports, videogames, professional wrestling and some light cussing, so be warned that I may drop a bomb or two.

So go listen to this week's podcast and tel me what you thought.

LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! Coming next week

Puppets like you've never seen them before!

Hey gang! Here's more press on the event I'm putting in on next week. There's a new poster that may be a little suggestive, but it's puppets, so Caveat Emptor.

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From this weeks CITY PAPER:

LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! Hoity Meets the 'Hood

LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! Hoity Meets the 'Hood teams the urban puppeteers at Little Bunny Voodoo and hip-hop cartoonist Jamar Nicholas. We know LBV's 2007 Fringe offering, Late Night at the Tiki Bar, was a visual delight. To quote CP's review: "We could watch these puppets watch paint dry," and we've been following Nicholas' street-smart hip-hop comix for years. The concept here is a "design mashup" with LBV's Alisa Sickora Kleckner and husband Chris Kleckner working with Nicholas to bring his creations to life. "They took my half of the project and really gave my ideas wings," says Nicholas. --Brian Howard

Read it:

read Puppets at the FRINGE: on WHYY

They interviewed me as well, but they TOTALLY LEFT MY WHOLE PART OUT. :pout:

Anyway, it's coming, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you're in Philly, come check it out. It NEEDS to be seen live.

SUPERIOR FLOOR SYSTEMS: Notes from the group show

Remember a few threads back I went on about the tile I was creating for the group show SUPERIOR FLOOR SYSTEMS, at Exclamation Gallery? Well I did, it was done, and it got lookeded at. My pals over at the gallery posted a neat look into the show along with plenty of pics and a great video. See if you can find mine.

Here's a link to the gallery Flickr site, as well! Thanks gang!

The Illest Collabo since that guy and the other dude. . .

My man TOOBZ cordially invites you to:

Please join me as I collaborate with puppet troupe LITTLE BUNNY VOODOO to bring forth the illest Fringe show ever! Would love to see you there if you find yourself in Philly (for you out-of-towners) next month.

Also, we were interviewed by WHYY Public Radio about the show, so once I find out when that airs, I'll pass the info on to you.

Click here for our Philly Fringe show info.

NOTE: Just to be clear, the show is at THE INSTITUTE, not the Walking Fish.

Jamar Nicholas: INTERNET SUPERSTAR!

INTERNET SUPERSTAR! is the joint - we stay crispy in milk, son. Click the vid to see me RIGHT IN YOUR FACE talking about the BBWW Blog and pimp some other stuff as well. Thanks to my new ace, Martin Sargent and my man Gator for the look out! This was the inaugural episode, so we make history YET AGAIN. Also hang around to see Tom Green do his thing.

UVC - Filled with 80mgs of That's What's Up!

Hey what's up party people! Just dropping in to give you a little Hap into my mix.

- For a while, I've been putting up color drops into the new UVC - URBAN VOICE OF COMICS magazine, which is what I've heard as a cross between Wizard and Vibe magazine. I called it 'The Black Wizard' magazine, and then got into a silly misunderstanding about there being a market for black wizards.

In any event, Look for the 3rd ep of Boogaloo inside the magazine, and support the cause. ERRRUUUUUUH!

This Weekend: NY COMIC CON!

This weekend (Saturday and Sunday) look for me (All 4 of you) at the New York Comic Con! I'll be floating around bothering my comic pals, posing for photo ops, shaking babies and kissing hands.

Also you can find me at the TOKYOPOP booth on Sunday signing, sketching and that whole deal promoting THE GROSSE ADVENTURES.

Come give your man Dap!