Jim Mahfood (born March 29, 1975, in St. Louis, Missouri), a.k.a. Food One, is an American comic book creator. Apart from his creator-owned comic book series Grrl Scouts and his comic strip Stupid Comics (which appears weekly in the Phoenix New Times) he also did work for Marvel Comics on various Spider-Man titles, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up and Spectacular Spider-Man. His big break came when Oni Press hired him to illustrate two comic books based on Kevin Smith's movie Clerks from scripts by Smith, following his work on Marvel Comics Generation X Underground Special, billed as 'the most subversive comic book ever released by Marvel.'

At the age of 18 he attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he met Mike Huddleston and formed 40 Oz Comics.

He graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in 1997 and went on to produce many comics with his own unique style, heavily influenced by graffiti and underground hip hop culture. He frequently features his characters wearing t-shirts promoting local or underground hip hop, funk, jazz or punk bands. Mahfood himself is heavily involved in his local music scene, often doing live mural art during hip hop and DJ events.

He was depicted in a cameo appearance in Phil Hester and Mike Huddleston's series Deep Sleeper, in which he appears drawing on stage during a dance party in the spirit world.[volume & issue needed]

In 2008, Mahfood was commissioned to supply all of the the art and ads for the that years Colt 45 (malt liquor) ad campaign.[1]

Selected independent works

Clerks, the comic book (written by Kevin Smith)

Clerks Holiday Special (written by Kevin Smith)

Grrl Scouts

Grrl Scouts: Work Sucks

40 Oz Collected

Classic 40 oz: Tales from the brown bag

Bad Ideas (collaboration with Wayne Chinsang and Dave Crosland)

Putting the Backbone Back

Felt: True tales of underground hip hop

The Further Adventures of One Page Filler Man