Sandy Jimenez

(he/him)

Sandy Jimenez is an American comic book artist, writer and editor of Dominican descent from the South Bronx.

Sandy Jimenez is an American comic book artist, writer and editor of Dominican descent from the South Bronx. Sandy’s ongoing comic book series began publication in World War 3 Illustrated magazine in 1991, making him the first Dominican-American comic book artist to write and illustrate his own brand of stories in print. His decades of published comic book work will be collected by the archive at Columbia University in 2025.

Along with his work on the action-adventure horror series Marley Davidson: Bronx Exorcist, he has written and directed for film and stage. Sandy and Annabelle Heckler created and run The CCPG, The CUNY Comix Programming Group; responsible for bringing guest speakers and original events to the Graduate Center. Sandy Jimenez teaches Foundation Drawing at City-Tech, The New York City College of Technology.

Sandy lives in Manhattan not far from Word Up Books, the community bookshop he helped founder Veronica Santiago Liu start in 2011.

Academic Interests

Biography and Memoir; Graphic Novels; Comic Books; Writing.

Education

The Graduate Center, History- Biography and Memoir, MA (in progress;) The Cooper Union, BFA; The Calhoun School, HS.

  • Leon Levy Master’s Scholarship
  • Dean’s Merit Scholarship
  • Dean’s University Fellowship
  • Mina Rees Open Knowledge Fellowship
  • Publications

    Academia:
    International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Pages 288- 302,) an article:
    A Comics and Nonfiction Graphic Memoir Course at The Graduate Center: A Trial Run at Teaching the Methods and Making of Nonfiction Visual Narrative as Part of Postgraduate Study and Its Resulting Work.”

    Creative works:
    World War 3 illustrated; Jacked Tracts; The Graphic Canon;