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Sam Trafford

@traffors.bsky.social
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Wirral based artist. Fading hipster, woolgatherer, flâneur and general laggard.

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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Doing my knee replacement recovery walk along Meols embankment. Having to play chicken with the council verge cutting tractor, which feels unnecessary. Looking forward to my 'Bean Anywhere' coffee.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Late, but so what. The Wailing is brilliant, intense, constantly surprising, emotionally complex, and in some places, a bit daft. Cannonball was a bit of dumb relief. Kronos underwhelmed tbh, I've seen it a few times and was hoping for fresh takeaways.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
14th anniversary of this atrocity going on sale in Urban Outfitters
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Cooling off in my scruffy backyard, enjoying the last of the sea daisies
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Idea for a 7" record adapter....
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Dino Battaglia's graphic adaption of Poe's The Tomb of Ligeia, published in Corto Maltese magazine, February 1985. #fumetti #fumetto #dinobattaglia #iltaliancomics
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tuesday meet up with my old friend Will. Subjects covered: The inexplicable removal of the bench at Belvidere. The 2 words forbidden in comic books, clint and flick. The uncontacted tribe of the North Sentinel Island. And my fave Corto Maltese story, “Concerto in O' Minor for Harp and Nitroglycerin”
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Look at this AI atrocity. Clothes all wrong, repeated blurry faces, random cobbled street. Such an insult to a customer base with an expectation of period accuracy.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I've got a cold, so I'm in bed reading a book
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I feel like I need to be that sad old boron who gets the reference. I love what you're doing with this album BTW.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
With ostrich head-dress Face a mess, covered in feathers Orange-red with blue-black lines That draped down to his chest
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Here you go. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers was for a film club on Discord, but obviously it's amazing. A Footpints On The Moon rewatch was in order since I find it fascinating. Hard To Be A God came up on FB as Stalker adjacent. Who Dares Wins is dumb, so what.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I think Theresa May's dropped her kecks off at West Kirby Oxfam
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
From yesterday's life drawing class. I was pretty chuffed with this 2 minute "no look" sketch. #art #lifedrawing
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hoylake beach today. Natural vegetation torn up mechanically to satisfy conservative sensibilities.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Sunny and pretty successful life drawing class this morning at Wallesay Village Library #lifedrawing #art #illustration
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Treated myself to Fantagraphic's new Corto Maltese release. Looks lovely, nice lettering too. Let's see how it reads.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The Williamson Museum and Gallery, Oxton, Birkenhead. Current highlights, life drawings by Stanley Reed, and sculpture by Adrian Jeans. #artgalleries
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It's always a shock when my brain reminds me that Carol Vorderman was once in a band with awful Liz Kershaw, and that they were called (wait for it) Dawn Chorus & The Blue Tits.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Very much enjoying Jez Conolly's "anti-memoir" Capture Spiral: An Escape From Memory
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Shooting more photo reference for The Twelfth BHF Book of Horror Stories illustrations. This one’s a zombie headshot in the mountains of Bavaria.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Done me first horror story illustration for a while. Photo reference included 😱
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Who do you love?
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I've got some new bins. Because of my decades long sinus problems, the bridge of my nose is very wide, so my glasses sit up too high, giving me that George Smiley look.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
They do have customers...
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We had a cat man in New Brighton
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Linda Ronstadt, London, early 70s
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Some advertising illustrations by René Gruau. Pop-art meets Toulouse-Lautrec. #renegruau #illustration #popart
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This photo makes me happy
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Nipped into W.H. Smith's (or whatever it's called now) for the new Mojo and picked up this as well. Good clean fun, as my mum would say. #commando #comics #britishcomics
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
First sun-drenched life drawing class of the year and long may it continue. #lifedrawing #art #illustration #wallesay
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Much better life drawing session this morning, despite having a sinus headache. #lifedrawing #artclasses #art #charcoal #Wallesay #wirral
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Nicola Jennings in The Guardian today
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
First life drawing class of the year at Wallesay Village Library, which was as lovely as ever, I was very rusty though. #lifedrawing #art #illustration #graphite
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The late Magenta Devine of Network 7 fame, sans-shades in '77. Words by Nils Stevenson, photo by his brother Ray Stevenson.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A Don Letts handdrawn font might do pretty well. Gotta love those Es.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
#boardofpeace
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace”
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Sad to see that Lincoln have ditched their Mike Mignola designed badge and replaced it with a simplified version
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A few more London label 12" sleeves, Arawak, Hawkeye, Cha Cha and Rite Sound. Some of the records don't match, sorry 😊
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I like this illustration of Roy Wood from a Pop Panto feature in the Diana For Girls annual 1975
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We're all the guy in this joke now, aren't we
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I remember watching a double feature of Buck Rogers and the second Battlestar Galactica film. The image of Buck frozen in his spaceship’s cockpit for centuries was my first true understanding of death!
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What was your #childhoodcinema Odeon, Scarborough. Now the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Attended my first portrait class for a few years. It was very difficult. I massively overworked this and didn't capture the sitter at all. Oh well, at least I got to see the inside of Oriel Chambers, the world's first building with a cast-iron structure. #art #illustration #portrait
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Fuck Trump
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Went for my New Years Day walk in Stapledon Woods, Caldy. Did a cold fingered sketch between showers. Now I'm having a frothy coffee. #sketch #art #illustration #olafstapledon
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A personal favourite
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Soldier buries his mate. Cafe sketch after Karl Alexander Wilke. #illustration #sketch #sketchbook
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Sam Trafford @traffors.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Sketches by René Gruau, master of fashion illustration #renegruau #illustration
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