- Artist
- Illustrator
- Writer
- Black
- Jamaican
Robyn Smith is a Jamaican cartoonist and author born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, now based in New York City. She is known for The Saddest, Angriest, Black Girl in Town, named to The Comics Journal's 2016 Best Short Form Comics list. She is the artist on Wash Day and Wash Day Diaries (written by Jamila Rowser, Chronicle Books, 2022), which won the LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics and the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story. She also illustrated Nubia: Real One (DC Comics, written by L.L. McKinney). She holds an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies.
The Saddest, Angriest, Black Girl in Town (2016)
Wash Day – artist (Black Josei Press, 2018)
Nubia: Real One – artist (DC Comics, 2021)
Wash Day Diaries – artist (Chronicle Books, 2022)
Outstanding Story (Wash Day Diaries)
2024 Outstanding Artist
2016 The Comics Journal Best Short Form Comics list (The Saddest, Angriest, Black Girl in Town)
2019 DiNKy Award for Best Floppy Comic (Wash Day)
2023 LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (Wash Day Diaries)