About

Welcome to the comic book diner, a weekly review of the changing comics artform, from print to web, newspapers to ipads, comic shops to digital download. Each week, we’ll be talking about the creation,
business, fun and heartaches thhat every cartoonist, young and old, needs to know. Guests will visit from time to time, and Jamar and Rich will offer deep insight while we heartilly promote our own agenga of truth, justice, and all you can eat at the Comic Book Diner…

John Gallagher, Rich Faber & Jamar Nicholas are all cartoonists, friends, and lovers of milkshakes, hence the name of this Podcast– stay tuned as we share our exploits, advice, and omelette recipes with you from week-to-week!

About the Creators:
Working as a virtual comics art studio, as well as broadcasting their cult comics podcast, Comic Book Diner, Jamar Nicholas, Rich Faber & John Gallagher are dedicated to promoting the future of comics, in format and audience. What’s crackin’ Spider-Man?!

Jamar: JAMAR NICHOLAS is a Philadelphia-based cartoonist, illustrator and educator. Beginning a career in comics in 1997, he self-published his first title The Jamar Chronicles, and has gone on to create several popular properties, most notably web-comic Detective Boogaloo: Hip Hop Cop.

Jamar also held the rare position of Editorial Cartoonist at the Philadelphia Tribune – the nations oldest African-American newspaper.

He has taught and lectured on the topic of comics creation at numerous institutions, such as the University of the Arts, Delaware College of Art and Design, Arcadia University and Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has dedicated his career to empowering young people to create their own cartoons and comics.

Rich: Rich Faber is an award-winning Illustrator who has been working for over 15 years. Rich is a versatile artist who began his career as a Comic Book Inker. Known for his keen attention to detail, his specialties include, but are not limited to, photo-realistic pencil Illustrations, brush, pen, and ink Illustrations as well as Logo Design Illustrations. Illustration subjects of particular interest include Baseball, Automobiles, and Portraits.

John: John Gallagher, cartoonist, self-publisher, and award-winning designer. Under the Sky-Dog Press banner, John has written and illustrated his online and printed graphic novel series Buzzboy since 1998, and has run his own award-winning design and custom comics studio since 1994. John organized, edited, and published More Fund, and Even More Fund, comics anthologies raising thousands of dollars to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. He has been a member of the SPX Steering Committee, and sits on the Baltimore Comic-Con advisory board. A self-professed all-ages comics “evangelist,” John speaks to young people at libraries and schools across the U.S. about the power and magic of sequential storytelling.