Jimmy Johnson is an American comic strip cartoonist who writes and draws Arlo and Janis.
Johnson noted an early endeavor related to his future profession in a 2020 blog entry: "When I was in college, I did a comic strip for the weekly student newspaper.
"[2] As a young man just out of college, Johnson briefly worked as a reporter and in the public relations department of Auburn University.
Johnson said, "At the time I sold Arlo & Janis to the newspaper syndicate United Media in 1985, there were a lot of 'talking animal' strips.
Mel Lazarus, Johnny Hart, Dik Browne, Charles Schulz, Bud Blake are also mentioned.
"[6] Naming other direct influences on his work, Johnson cites "the old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoons, originally produced for theater audiences of all ages...
Even as a kid, I could appreciate a subtle, grown-up wit that absolutely was missing in the Disney cartoons that dominated the scene in my day."
Johnson also describes himself as a "huge fan of Scrooge McDuck comic books and the work of Carl Barks.