Jamie Smith (cartoonist)

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This article refers to the Alaskan cartoonist; for others by the same name, see also Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith (James T. Smith), born in New York, is an Alaskan painter, printmaker, and cartoonist and creator of the strips "freeze-frame" and "Nuggets". He received his bachelor of fine art (drawing and printmaking) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has completed graduate work in a master's degree in sequential arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has published three "freeze-frame" collections, with another Freeze-Frame collection as well as a Nuggets collection released on Earth Day, April 2008[1]. Smith has illustrated several books, and his cartoons appear in newspapers and magazines across the state. He also produces editorial cartoons for The Ester Republic and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He teaches drawing and cartooning at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

[edit] Awards

  • 2007. Alaska Press Club, Best Editorial Cartoon, 2nd place.[2]
  • 2006. Alaska Press Club, Best Editorial Cartoon, 1st place.[3]
  • 2005. Alaska Press Club, Best Editorial Cartoon, 3rd place.[4]

[edit] Bibliography

  • freeze-frame. James T. Smith. Dragon Press.
  • How to Speak Alaskan. 1993. Mike Doogan and Jamie Smith. Epicenter Press.
  • Beaver Fever. 1995. James T. Smith. Dragon Press.
  • Stuck in a Rut. 1999. James T. Smith. Dragon Press.
  • Cartoon North: Sequential Art in Alaska. 2007. Jamie Smith and Deirdre Helfferich, editors. Ester Republic Press. (catalog for art show by the same name)
  • It's gonna be a long winter. 2008. Jamie Smith. Ester Republic Press.
  • Nuggets. 2008. Jamie Smith. Ester Republic Press.

[edit] External links and sources

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