samwallman

early autumn

hey commeroids. sorry this is late coming through, had a death in the family and it ended up hitting me for six. doubling down on efforts for a second safe injecting room in the bastards honour <3 "i've never encountered a user who wasn't trying to thrive"

2024-03-05 01:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post

january

hey mates. it’s definitely HAPPENING - here’s some undeniably good AI art that’s floating around, stuff that i think humans wld rly struggle to do ourselves, and that are actually pushing art into interesting new places. i half hate to see it but credit where its due i spose!!!!!! 😅

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end of december

Hey mates

The video in this post is a long-ass lecture i did at the National Library of Australia earlier this month, drawing upon a month of research into the Pink Bans - industrial action carried out by construction workers in support of persecuted queer people, prior to the emergence of the mainstream gay rights movement. A chapter of history about which not a lot has been written or r...

november

hey mates how's it going

as the vast majority of the supposed leaders of the union movement and the political class act like they're made of clag held together with sticky tape, its been amazing to see union *members* step up and attempt to do the lords work in support of Palestine. a friend told me ab...

a clear flowing yarra

Harry Sadler's new book 'A Clear Flowing Yarra' is love letter to the Birrarung river. The river has long been a huge part of my life, so i was happy to meet with him to talk about it late last year. You might like to get a copy of the book, it's a ...

mid spring

Hey mates here’s latest piece for Overland supporting the calls to push cars out of the middle of the city:

The City of Melbourne is2023-10-13 05:07:45 +0000 UTC View Post

end of winter

Hey mates, fucken delighted 2 report that i have just sent off all the finished art for ‘12 rules for strife’, this book i’m working on with Jeff Sparrow. There will be blood (minor edits :-P) required by the publisher, and a few further tweaks here and there but we’re so close to finished now that it makes me SICK. Thanks for sticking with me while i was preoccupied with that slog. her...

cover

hey mates,

here is the cover of our new book '12 rules for strife', hasnt been put out there publicly yet but i got permission to share it here:

it is kind of vaguely riffing off this beautiful old Herbert Mcclintock linocut design for the cover of 'Strife', a communist newspaper back in 19...

hussey strike

Heya,

Here's a little shareable graphic me and a few friends made to support the high stakes Hussey farmworker strike that's kicking off this week:

Since 2015, migrant farm workers have led the first wave of unionisation in Australia’s farms in decades. Workers across multiple sites have ...

12 rules

hello hows it going

here are some of the rough pages from this '12 rules for strife' book that Jeff Sparrow and i are making together for Scribe, alongside our editor David Golding, who held my hand with Our Members Be Unlimited.

Jeff tied off the script a while ago, we finished a super rough and scrappy draft of the visual concepts of all the pages (thats what i did while i was in ...

another overdose prevention centre

hey mates,

made a new piece in support of safe injecting facilities, since Ken Lay's report on the utility of a second site in Melbourne is due out any day now. the drawing is going to run on Overland soon, it's designed to present well on the web (long narrow pieces scroll down nicely), and it should also work well printed out and stuck on to street poles.

Once the community cons...

april

Hey mates hope you’re all keeping well.

I’ve been good, been busy with this new book, it’s coming along, feeling like less of a head-fuck than the last one which is good!!!!!

As u can see, it is waaay more spacious, less dense than ‘Our Members Be Unlimited’, it’s pretty much a ...

March

hey mates

time in perth boorloo has been going great, been smashing through art stuff here, and this new book project, it feels GOOD. great to get to know a new place, and different layers of the left.

did a big public lecture the other day that went alright tho i do shit my pants with such...

summer

hey mates hope you’re all keeping well.

here are some test pages for Jeff Sparrow and my sum-day book ‘12 Rules for Strife’. they’re proof of concept type pages, won’t make it to the final thing but thought i’d share them

2023-01-30 06:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post

december

hello! 

drew the above piece that u can download for free from here, and print yrself to make into a card for your union delegate / rep / shop steward / organiser, to thank them for their largely invisible n often t...

november

Hey mates, 

Slowly plodding through mailing everyone out some new zines n stickers and wotnot. Pls reply to this update with your new address if u hav moved house !

Pls let me know if you might also like any of these shirts, I realised they're sitting in my wardrobe never worn them, and i'm not ever gonna wear them i wld feel a bit cringe hahah. they're all mens cut size L

act your wage

hello hope ur all keeping well

i recently read two facts that shook me, Labor Notes, who are about to publish an excerpt from my book, wrote that as recently as the year 2009 mass industrial action "had all but disappeared in the United States—indeed, that year witnessed the fewest number of major strikes, *five* in total, ...

pinkertons

hey mates below is the comic essay i finished recently for The Nib. thanks to my friend Shaun Slifer for some guidance with this one, and Eleri Mai Harris for her skill as an editor. hope u guys like it, and that the format works alright in this email...

also just quickly if ur in sydney pls come to this on friday if u can! bring ur friends if u like, there will be a bunch of free booze a...

let them absorb the risk

hey mates hope you're all keeping well. so many ppl are sick right now i dont remember things ever having been like this b4. i drew this for my monthly Overland piece just finished it last night, i think they will publish it this coming wk:

2022-07-26 11:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post

bones out of body

new drawing about bones and private schools, for Overland coming out with them next week some time.

this is just a quick update to tell ppl that me and old mate Ben Juers are doing an “in conversation” salon thing hosted by Paperback Books next Tuesday night, talking about the new book among ...

happy solstice

Hey mates

Hope you’re all keeping well! Things have been a bit deranged my end, equal parts stressful and special, lots of family care stuff been going on over the last month or so and the book spruiking. kinda overwhelming chunk of time but doing pretty good so far, hope u are too.

I’m headed to Canberra / Ngambri to run a couple of workshops this weekend, if u know anyone who ...

what

Hey hows it going, I thought I would send through the invite to the book launch happening on Thursday June 2nd, if any of u want to come u can RSVP directly to joshua@scribepub.com.au
Should hopefully be a good night, I’m working on some kind of presentation, mostly about Amazon stuff i think. there will be some booze and some words by Jeff Sparrow and Elizabeth Lim. 

2022-05-07 21:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post

corporate memphis

hey how's it going

here is a new comic about that cancerous drawing style called 'Corporate Memphis', it's going to be published by Overland soon.

tech journalist Josh Gabert-Don wrote in Wired that “the immense reach of Corporate Memphis, or the design possibilities we’ve been ...

too bad if your name becomes a verb

Hey mates,

Last week i finished this comic about the history of boycotts, how special they can be, their limitations and so on. The first boycott ever organised was against an upper class brit called Captain Charles Boycott. an entire village in Ireland turned their back on him when he upped their rents following a famine. Basically a multi-industry, massive criss-crossing solidarity str...

get in sis we're cancelling lawn

hi hello hope everyones doing okay. here are some anti-lawn memes that i liked, in contrast to the doom of a new war!!!!!!

2022-02-25 16:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post

january

hey there, hope everyones keeping well, its so cold here in the US and most of u are boiling hot in australia by the sounds of things so i guess we're all united by deranged weather!!!!

was a fun challenge to try and draw a largely wordless cartoon that describes *what the union is* to workers ne...

not so novel anymore!!!!

i contracted the novel coronavirus fkn woops as. i got it just TWO DAYS before my booster shot appointment was scheduled. i was so excited i had even drawn this in preparation:

the ppl i have been spending time with who had already had their booster seem to have dodged the bullet, which is a pret...

sickos

the shirts are finally existing. i have sent a bunch out already, some of the sizes are starting run rly low (like only one left in sum sizes) so it's a first in best dressed kinda situation.

made an onl...

ombu

hello mates. happy to show yas the cover of the book here, first time it is having air blow across it:

it went to print last week, 255 pages worth, after nearly a year working at Amazon and almost 5 years of writing and drawing the thing. biggest undertaking so far, for sure. i definitely wld not...

spring update

hi commeroids

the book is coming along well, yesterday i finally finished the linework for the cover, just gotta add the blurb and endorsements n stuff. i got a bit carried away with the design, its a wraparound thing, with fold-out flaps that then bleed onto double page spreads on the inside covers front and back. this is how it looks as one giant image, but in the end it'll look a bit m...