Jamar Nicholas (born March 18, 1973) is an African American cartoonist, graphic novelist, and educator based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Nicholas grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he often watched Spider-Man on Saturday mornings and obsessively studied the frames of comic strips like Peanuts, Andy Capp, and Blondie.

[2] In 2002, he created Detective Boogaloo: Hip-Hop Cop, a weekly webcomic that was originally published on Kevin Smith's website MoviePoopShoot.com, which went on hiatus for over a decade.

[4] Then in 2003, Nicholas served as editorial cartoonist of the Philadelphia Tribune, the oldest continually publishing African American newspaper in the United States.

Nicholas stated to Ashley Huber of The Philadelphia Inquirer that he hoped the graphic novel would "open people's minds to the plight of young men," coming of age in underserved neighborhoods.

[8] In 2015, Detective Boogaloo returned in the Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston newspapers published by Metro International as a daily comic strip.

[15] Beyond interviewing other notable comic book creators, he is the magazine's "Crusty Critic," maintaining a column on product and tool reviews.