Meet the author

Brian Smith.

Writer · United States

Former Marvel and DC editor turned author of Officer Clawsome, the bam-wham-chomp undersea superhero comedy that's pure page-turning fun for Dog Man fans and reluctant readers.

Brian "Smitty" Smith is an American writer and cartoonist, a former Marvel and DC editor and the co-creator of the graphic novel The Stuff of Legend, who now writes some of the silliest undersea comedy on the shelf. His Officer Clawsome books turn the ocean floor into a superhero playground where a heroic lobster cop and his fearless starfish partner, Stariana, take on a town's worth of deranged sea-creature crooks, from the Catfishburglar to the diabolical Brain Sturgeon. Illustrated by Chris Giarrusso and splattered with bam-wham-chomp sound effects and a joke on nearly every page, the series races from an undersea crime wave to a time-travelling chase through prehistory and the Old West. Fast, bright and gleefully daft, it is pure page-turning fun for Dog Man fans and reluctant readers who want laughs with their action.