Jibola Fagbamiye

Jibola Fagbamiye is a Nigerian-born visual artist and comics illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. His work draws on his dual love of African history and North American pop culture, and has been exhibited in galleries across Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, and Lagos. His work has been featured on AfroPunk, Toronto Life, ByBlacks, and BlogTO.

Before entering comics, Fagbamiye illustrated the New York Times bestseller Black AF: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America and Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar, and contributed to IDW's Full Bleed Vol. 4 anthology.

His debut graphic novel, Fela: Music Is the Weapon (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2025), co-created with writer Conor McCreery, is a graphic biography of Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti — the visionary Nigerian Afrobeat bandleader, political dissident, and cultural icon. The book was described by Publishers Weekly as "a graphic biography as outraged, outrageous, and swaggering as its subject."

In 2026, the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards celebrated its most diverse nominee class in the 38-year history of the awards, with a historic number of Black creators nominated across categories. Fagbamiye received a 2026 Eisner nomination for Best Reality-Based Work for Fela: Music Is the Weapon (Amistad/HarperCollins).