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Brightly colored image with halftoned photo collage, combining various Civil War era figures and buildings into a kind of hooved monster trampling the dead
American Carnage, 2019
A Calvin & Hobbes 4-panel strip: 1. Calvin running at high speed, jubilant 2. Calvin skidding to a stop; off-panel bubble reads "Calvin, stop running through the house!" 3. Calvin spiking the reader, cheerful. His bubble reads "the law is on the books, but it would take all their resources to enforce it." 4. Calvin running off-panel. Off-panel bubble reads "CALVIN!"
Evergreen reminder
Book cover: Background images are from Krazy Kat, tinted CMYK. Foreground text? Look Back, See Further. Comics, More than Ever: A Teacher's Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels. Logos for Uarts and Library of Congress
Right before UArts folded, I was working on this Teacher's Guide to Comics with the Teaching with Primary Sources team. We sneaked this final edit in under the wire, and you can see the whole thing on my website ianesampson.com/Teacher-s-Gu...
Ink drawing of a frog dressed as Zorro holding a cat
Riffing on Toth, h/t #transmundanetuesdays
I'm convinced the AI powered internet of 2025 is just Clippy's revenge. We all used to make fun of him, but he's back β and this time he's not asking.
Gestural drawings in ink of figures from various tv shows
This week was a jam up! But thereβs always room for live drawing tv.
ink drawing of a woman with curly hair looking shocked, saying "and then it just happened!"
Something good, I hope
purple and pink illustration of the Drake Apartment building in Philadelphia
The Drake
Hazy scene in negative blues and pinks of several people wearing scrubs, looking glum while they go about their work.
Unused spot illo/mood
In case you were wondering where to buy your Eagles championship gear in Philly, itβs literally every store. Hardware β Grocery β Auto repair β I havenβt checked the hair salon, but chances are good. π¦
illustration in shades of turquoise. Depicts a pocket paperback entitled The Fugitive from Capra on a desk with a computer, post-its, a pastry and a stack of other books.
Thinking about used book stores and the pinnacle of book packaging, the Magnum Easy Eye paperback.
Our podcast @drawingadialogue.bsky.social discusses comics in education, history and theory. We create new scholarship through interviews as well as our own empirical work. Our goal is to have a comics podcast that wasn't focusing on being a creator or a fan, although we definitely are those things.
I have the @grimgrimgrim666.bsky.social version!
Page from chapter 3 describing wealth disparity in western Pennsylvania in the 1790s
Reading about the Whiskey Rebellion in Stephen Stollβs excellent Ramp Hollow. Good thing we addressed these problems, right?
Sketchbook drawings of people doing karate
Karate!
When I am Omniversal Majestrix, Karen will get her choice of X-Men books. For now, get a sketch!
Sketchbook page of loose gesture drawings
Drawing students drawing, listening to Jelly Roll Morton
Pencil sketch of a woman with glasses looking sus, saying βcanβt pay β¦β
Looks like trouble
As a kid, I actually knew Spider Martin, and I can tell you he would have taken great joy in knowing his pictures are still making cowards squirm even 20 years after heβs gone. Makes me smile thinking of it!
Mandy said you were doing *24 Hour* comics. This is much more⦠sensible. Love the inks!
Cartoony ink drawing in muted browns. Charles M Russell holds open a book for Rawhide Rawlins to see the title page. Russell says, "I made you up!"
A panel from my forthcoming comic on Charles M Russell from the Amon Carter Museum, edited by @mnarth.bsky.social