About

Jaime Crespo is a native Californian who has been a published cartoonist in the neighborhood of 40 years now and has had his comics appear in several anthologies over time (Monkey Wrench, Deadbeat Magazine, Buzzard, Backwoods, White Buffalo Gazette, X-Ray Book Co. Bagazine to name but a few) as well as in many magazines and weekly papers and solo comic books. He is also part of the Latinx Comic Arts Festival, Sol-Col, BCAF and the Latino Comics Expo. Crespo focuses mainly on but not limited to bio/auto bio stories (ala Harvey Pekar). Crespo has had his comic strip, Slice O’ Life (later shorted to Slices) in weekly papers around the US. Upon the downsizing and in most cases the collapse of some weekly papers, is when he then returned to self-publishing an on-going comic book title, Tortilla in which he may tell longer stories outside of the four-panel comic strip format. Currently, Jaime is in the midst of his much-anticipated first graphic novel, Sinners & Saints, which focuses on his time spent as a janitor/maintenance man in a San Francisco Tenderloin District SRO hotel during the mid-1980’s at the beginning of the crack epidemic, as well as his mini graphic novel, Funniest Guy in the Room about his experience growing up in an abusive home and dealing with being a person of color in California, well before social awareness of such things came about.