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Ian Sampson
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Comics & Prints // Adjunct Professor
Philly Parent, married to @rhubarbpies.bsky.social
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American Carnage, 2019
Brightly colored image with halftoned photo collage, combining various Civil War era figures and buildings into a kind of hooved monster trampling the dead
March 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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...
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
February 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Riffing on Toth, h/t #transmundanetuesdays
Ink drawing of a frog dressed as Zorro holding a cat
February 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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This week was a jam up! But there’s always room for live drawing tv.
Gestural drawings in ink of figures from various tv shows
February 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Something good, I hope
ink drawing of a woman with curly hair looking shocked, saying "and then it just happened!"
February 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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The Drake
purple and pink illustration of the Drake Apartment building in Philadelphia
February 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Unused spot illo/mood
Hazy scene in negative blues and pinks of several people wearing scrubs, looking glum while they go about their work.
February 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Thinking about used book stores and the pinnacle of book packaging, the Magnum Easy Eye paperback.
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.
February 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Reading about the Whiskey Rebellion in Stephen Stoll’s excellent Ramp Hollow. Good thing we addressed these problems, right?
Page from chapter 3 describing wealth disparity in western Pennsylvania in the 1790s
February 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Karate!
Sketchbook drawings of people doing karate
February 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Drawing students drawing, listening to Jelly Roll Morton
Sketchbook page of loose gesture drawings
February 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Looks like trouble
Pencil sketch of a woman with glasses looking sus, saying “can’t pay …”
February 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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A panel from my forthcoming comic on Charles M Russell from the Amon Carter Museum, edited by @mnarth.bsky.social
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!"
February 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM