Jamie Smart Audiobooks

Bunny vs Monkey, high-energy comic nonsense for children graduating from picture books

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Who is Jamie Smart?

Jamie Smart, born in 1978, is a British comic artist and author, best known as the creator of the comic series Bunny vs Monkey and the ten-issue series Bear. Most of his modern comics appear through The Phoenix magazine, and that steady presence tells its own story: this is a working cartoonist with a devoted readership, not a one-hit visitor to the form.

Comics remain an undersung corner of British publishing, and Smart is one of its most dependable talents – a writer-artist with the rare knack of building characters daft enough to love and durable enough to carry a long-running series.

Jamie Smart in audiobooks

Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business! represents Smart in our catalogue, and the exclamation mark is doing honest work: this is gleeful, high-energy nonsense in the best sense. The premise is right there in the name – a bunny, a monkey, and an escalating rivalry of ridiculous schemes, this time with an intergalactic flavour. Comic material translates to audio surprisingly well when the jokes live in the dialogue and the momentum never drops, and this makes ideal family listening: short bursts, big laughs, no scene-setting required. For young listeners graduating from picture books, it is about as easy a sell as the catalogue offers.