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(DETECTIVE BOOGALOO) HIP-HOP COP / YOU DON'T STOP

I have spent the last three seasons creating a daily comic strip. Its name is DETECTIVE BOOGALOO: HIP-HOP COP.  It has run daily in the US Metro newspapers, which are available for your morning commute if you live in Boston, Philadelphia (my hometown), and/or New York City, and also online.  A lot of you live online.

I created this property in 1999 and it ran on a website of filmmaker Kevin Smith for several years, taking on a few forms before, and after that.

In the beginning of this year, I began talks with METRO to feature my property, where I would update remix and retell the Detectives' origin story as a daily, full color strip. I am very proud of this undertaking, and also very proud of my assistant, E Hetrick Jackson, who provides dazzling color for the strip. It is a perfect marriage of my color theory and E's fresh approach to my style, giving it the offbeat care it demands.

After November 11th 2015, DETECTIVE BOOGALOO will cease to run in the METRO. The paper has decided to move in a different creative direction and thus, that's that. 

I have enjoyed the fact that my work has been seen by over 4 million readers a month for close to six months, but we end on an amicable agreement, and I thank all the great people who helped give Boogaloo (or "Hip-Hop Cop" as the paper tagged the strip) the attention and audience I have worked to attain my whole professional life as a cartoonist. I am forever grateful.

The great news is, that the Detective will continue on. Look here for more news and art and strips, and also on Boogaloo's Facebook Fan Page which you can LIKE right now. or the Twitter page, but we'll keep it simple and you can Follow me on my studio account. 

This has been a year of amazing highs and crushing lows, but I will continue to find joy in creating and growing with properties that are mine and alone.

Please, please, join me and seeing the detective off in the Metro tomorrow, and look here for the next dossier briefing of the Long Arms of the Law. I hope to see a healthy portion of those 4 million readers again.

DON'T TAKE HIP-HOP FROM STRANGERS!

Jamar Nicholas
Philly
2015

DETECTIVE BOOGALOO RETURNS!

WACK EMCEES? YOUR TIME IS UP!

My comic strip, DETECTIVE BOOGALOO: HIP-HOP COP is now running daily in the US METRO line of newspapers, NYC, Boston and Philadelphia! You can grab it from the green paperbox if you live in one of those cities, or ONLINE. Don't miss a day as I remix/retell James Lee Boogaloo's origin story for a new generation of readers!


DON'T TAKE HIP HOP FROM STRANGERS!
#DTHHFS

GREETINGS FROM JAMAR NICHOLAS STUDIOS!

HELLO AWESOMECON FRIENDS AND FANS! Thanks for the great time in Washington, DC!
Follow LEON: PROTECTOR OF THE PLAYGROUND on Facebook here!
--JNJamar Nicholas | STUDIO BLACKBOSS

JAMAR NICHOLAS JOINS THE TRIBBLE NATION!So excited to be ...

JAMAR NICHOLAS JOINS THE TRIBBLE NATION!

So excited to be interviewed by Philadelphia's own, BLACK TRIBBLES on their inaugural radio podcast for WHYY!
Listen here and then come back and pre-order LEON; PROTECTOR OF THE PLAYGROUND!

JAMAR APPEARANCES

SEPT 27
WILDCAT COMIC-CON
Williamsport, PA
http://wildcatcomiccon.pct.edu/guests...

OCT 4-6
24 HOUR COMICS DAY AND GRAPHIC NOVEL CONFERENCE
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (PCAD)
Lancaster, PA
http://www.pcad.edu/NewsEvents/Curren...

OCT 25
LOCUST MOON COMICS FESTIVAL
Philadelphia, PA
http://locustmoonfest.com/

Jamar on WHYY

                                                     photo by Maanvi Singh - WHYY/NewsWorks

Thanks for the great sit down and chat with my new friends at WHYY/Newsworks.org!Listen to our talk here.

COMIC BOOK DINER #63 - (Anti)-Social Media

Happy New Year! This is my first post of the new year, and I'm overflowing from last year. Hoping that this will be my beacon of light on the internet this year, as I finish up a ton of projects from last year (more on that) and begin new journeys. 
While you're here, go over to my COMIC BOOK DINER PODCAST, to hear our latest drop, where myself and tri-host John Gallagher talk about where social media is taking our careers.

JNTERVIEWS - kris dresen

JNTERVIEWS will be a one-on-one discussion with brilliant friends of mine who share their creativity with the world.

The tone is fun, adult and candid. Imagine James Lipton cornering a friend at a dinner party and asking questions from his notecards, but kind of forgetting them out in the car.

My first interview is with kris dresen, Chicagoan, and world-famous cartoonist who is known for her personal, emotional, ground-breaking work. She has several graphic novels and sequential objects out in the world, and is one of my dearest, closest friends inside/outside of comics.

Since this is the first podcast, please pardon the dust/noise/leveling.

Produced by Andy Hatton
JNTERVIEWS - kris dresen CLICK HERE TO LISSEN

Visit kris online at her website and/or follow her on twitter

DETECTIVE BOOGALOO RETURNS! 12/31/12

Jamar Nicholas returns to webcomics with the relaunching of DETECTIVE BOOGALOO: HIP HOP COP! Tell your mans' and them!

JAMAR GUEST @ WIZARD WORLD PHILLY MAY 31 - JUNE 3 2012

 Come see Jamar Nicholas, Ghost-PCS'er at ARTIST ALLEY BOOTH 2007 all weekend! For more info about the show, click here.