James Otis Smith

09/17/2020

Many thanks to teacher Kellen Blankenship, the hard-working Kimberly Guise and the 4th Grade ELA class of Patton Elementary in Austin for letting me ramble about Black Heroes for an hour. You kids are awesome and I can't wait to read your comics some day!

03/06/2019

Collecting the entire webcomic for the first time, GANG OF FOOLS arrives today from LionForge Comics! If your shop doesn't have it, refrain from flipping tables and give them the Diamond order code JAN191968. Tell them good taste sent you!

02/27/2019

Gang of Fools comes this March from myself and Lionforge Comics. It's a comedic sci-fi thing about awful people, solving problems through s*x and vandalism.

Music by the Alphamagnetic Orchestra.

02/27/2019

Kirkus has great taste!

02/27/2019

Rizzoli Bookstore hosted our release party, and the turnout was

02/27/2019

Ted and I were interviewed at the Apollo's 85th Anniversary celebration in Harlem. Pages were projected on the back wall during the entire event. I thought the brick texture made them look really cool!

02/27/2019

02/27/2019

Lionel Hampton performs at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, from writer Ted Fox's history of the theater, adapted into comics for Abrams ComicArts, 2019.