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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Streaming killed the "ha ha tricked you" DVD industry. I'm oddly nostalgic for it.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"It says here that your only graphic design experience is laying out an indie rock magazine from 1998-2002" "Was that a question?" "Not really. You're hired."

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Me, in highschool, applying to art schools with figure drawings I’d done of my friends, also in high school.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hear me out: single use shitzus.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

”I’d take a bullet for you, just like dad did for that pot roast he heroically saved…”

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I‘m in the love camp. I have this original daily on my wall and I look at it almost every day.

Photo of a frank robbins daily from johnny hazard

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Hot priest making a human chain to protest ICE detentions in Illinois . (photo credit: Jamie Kelter for the NYTimes) Internet, do your thing

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Two great skeets that go great together

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I assume “America’s Independent Democracy Station” was already taken

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I just learned that the Jetsons ONLY RAN FOR ONE 24 episode SEASON in 1962-1963. Is there ANY show with as much of a permanent cultural footprint that only ran ONE season?

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tired: George W Bush was a born painter who got into politics seeking his emotionally distant father’s approval. Wired: Trump is born comic letterer who got into politics because his emotionally distant father never let him read comics.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Some old-ish gouache work. I was really inspired by 1950’s children books at the time — I retained the rights to these and I hope to make a comic with them someday.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

An old slide I made for a lecture about writing. You have my full permission to use it if you would want to.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The choice of the name Leo XIV is a wonderful sign. The previous Leo was extremely pro labor and pro social reform at the turn of the last century. This probably means he sees him role as a bulwark against the forces of capitalism in our second gilded age.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Reference Tip: if you want to draw something, see if there is a toy/model version of it for sale, the pictures will be cleaner, the photographs will have almost no distortion on them and there is almost no chance of running into AI (if you find pictures on a sales site).

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I did not know Al Williamson was a stone cold fox.

Image of a young Al Williamson with a drafting board in his lap sitting at a table smiling up at the camera. He looks like a not emotionally troubled Luigi Manginoi. Did i spell that right? Who knows! Anyway, the point is Al Williamson who always drew handsome but lets be honest kinda bland looking men was super handsome and not bland looking. Also, fun fact: some of his best work he did in his late 60’s early 70’s when he was inking for marvel artists in the 80’s and 90’s. The guy is a legend. And he looked like the human version of the fox in Disney’s Robin Hood.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Most of what I draw are anatomy and figure studies. I find it meditative.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I got this notebook/sketchbook in Tokyo and I wish I hadn’t taken off the ribbon that it was sold with. I have no idea what the brand is and can’t find it anywhere. If you recognise this blank book brand let me know.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Once in a TCJ interview Gary Panter talked about his sketchbook practice and said something like “I’m not an artist who just draws pretty girl’s heads over and over--that would bore me to tears” and I felt bad about being one of those boring artists for, like, a decade. I’m getting over it.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I have had an on again off again daily sketchbook practice for the last 15 years. I have extremely mixed feelings about posting anything in my sketchbooks online, but I want to experiment with posting some stuff here and just see how it feels...

Fountain pen and alcohol drawings of geometric 80's type cars, some looking vaguely Mad Max inspired

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Comics nerds, I have a question. Online the art in Miss America #42 (sept 1951) is attributed, for some reason, to Dan DeCarlo. This seems obviously incorrect. Does this look like Boody Rogers to you? He retired in 1952.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Folks, it's looking bleak out there.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If you thought I didn’t come across an urn and a bag of human remains on my run last night, you would be DEAD WRONG.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Sometimes I think those guys knew *exactly* what they were doing.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

EXCLUSIVE content you say????

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

When did Pamala Anderson become Mia Farrow?

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

“I have CONCEPTS of a plan.”

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

I had no idea Ticketmaster had been around that long.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

If you only vote in one election in the next two years, it should be for this years Ignatz awards.

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Watched Re-Animator this eve. It came out three years before Die Hard… did you all know this and NOT TELL ME?

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

You should request an Ignatz ballot and vote for Viewotron: Comics and Stories! What’s stopping you?

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Sam Sharpe @samsharpe.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

A few pages of mine from CRAM #3. Issue #1 is nominated for and Ignatz in the Outstanding Anthology category. Please vote for it! www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-ballo…

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