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Max And Chaffy are a series of graphic novels for kids by Jamie Smart of Bunny Vs Monkey fame and published by David Fickling Books, who also published his Bunny Vs Monkey comics in Phoenix Comics Weekly and collected volumes. Well, Francesca Young at American publisher DK has bought the USA rights to Max and Chaffy for publication next year, starting with[...]

Jamie Smart's Bunny Vs Monkey series of graphic novels that have spun out of Phoenix Comics Weekly for over a decade, and have consistently topped the British bestselling book charts of late And now Phoenix and publisher David Fickling Books, or DFB,  have got out the contracts and have tied Jamie Smart down to five[...]

According to Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market charts, Jamie Smart is the ninth biggest-selling author in Britain of 2024 so far, courtesy of his Bunny Vs Monkey graphic novels This only counts books sold in bookstores, not his contributions to the Phoenix Weekly Comic from which the bestselling Bunny Vs Monkey graphic novels were derived. While[...]

It may be lazy to say that Jamie Smart's Bunny Vs Monkey is the UK version of Dav Pilkey's Dog Man, but it tracks Starting in the truly sensational weekly kids comic Phoenix from DFC, it has spun off and been collected in a series of best-selling graphic novels and may well be the best-selling[...]

Jamie Smart is nominated for the graphic novel collection from the Phoenix Weekly, Bunny vs Monkey: Rise of the Maniacal Badger And the Heartstopper series span off The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman Regular Bleeding Cool readers may also notice the nomination for Paterson Joseph who makes the leap from actor to author with The[...]

Whatever 2023 brings in terms of doom and despondency, bringing Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbordinto the world may make up for a lot of it. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ People aside from me who have backed the campaign include Gene[...]

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-Episode-163.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 163 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we stray off he path and go Wayward #1, check the charts for the latest POP #1, call it a night with Silver Surfer #5, talk it out with Sundowners #1, figure[...]

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool Jamie Smart has been one of my favorite comic creators for years He's the man responsible for the wonderful Bear (He's Bear! He's Bear! He's made of human hair! You poke his nose and his head grows he's Bear! He's Bear! He's Bear!) and through that unleashing the most terrifying[...]

The market's there, the interest's there and it's primed for expansion. Which is where Jamie Smart, and Moose Kid, comes in. Jamie is one of my favorite creators and has been for years His SLG series, Bear, about a possibly immortal and distinctly rubbish teddy bear being menaced by a sociopathic cat called Looshkin (Who I always[...]

Paul Grist, Rob Davis, Woodrow Phoenix, Ellen Lindner, Jamie Smart, Gary Northfield, Sarah McIntyre, Suzy Varty, Sean Longcroft, Warwick Johnson–Cadwell, Luke Pearson, Paul Harrison–Davies, Katie Green, Paul Peart–Smith, Glyn Dillon, I.N.J.Culbard, John Allison, Philip Bond, D'Israeli, Simone Lia, Darryl Cunningham, Jonathan Edwards, Ade Salmon, Kate Charlesworth, Warren Pleece, Kristyna Baczynski, HARVEYJAMES, Rian Hughes, Sean Phillips[...]