A Problem Like Jamal
By Tauhid Bondia | 452 FollowersAbout A Problem Like Jamal
What happens when Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" meets Huey from "The Boondocks"? A perfect storm of litigious comic creators is what. In fact, hurry up and forget I mentioned that.
"A Problem Like Jamal" follows the adventures of a woke young brother named Jamal Marcus as he single-handedly takes on racism, sexism, homophobia, capitalism, and too-damn-much-homework-ism. With a little help from his family, his friends, and a cavalcade of exhausted authority figures, Jamal is determined to leave the world a better place than he found it.
Meet Tauhid Bondia
Tauhid Bondia grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. A budding young artist and an early fan of comic strips, he spent many hours at the local library reading comic strip collections. His first serious attempt at drawing a serialized strip would come in 1993 when his comic “High School Daze” was published in his high school newspaper.
Bondia briefly attended Murray State University on a fine arts scholarship and went on to become a graphic designer. His days were spent designing logos for local companies and events while his nights were spent working on a variety of comic projects that were published on the web. These webcomics remained a passionate hobby for him for the next 20 years; however, he would become most widely known for his strip “A Problem Like Jamal,” which first appeared on GoComics in July 2018.
In 2019, Bondia decided to end "A Problem Like Jamal" and (with the help of his wife) developed the idea for a new strip called "Crabgrass." His hopes of finally becoming a syndicated cartoonist were fulfilled as the strip was selected for development by Andrews McMeel not long after.
Bondia currently lives in Hodgenville (one town over from his childhood home) with his wife, three cats, and two dogs.