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Sam Wallman

Type
Author biography

Sam Wallman is a unionist and cartoonist based on unceded Wurundjeri country. He is a member of the Workers Art Collective. His new longform book,  Our Members Be Unlimited: a Comic About Unions is out now through Scribe Publications. You can follow his work here.

Whose job it is to cover your shift if you're sick

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 27.Jul.22
  • 1 Comment

Private school? I would rather—

Type
Cartoon
Category
Education
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 4.Jul.22
  • 4 Comments

‘We deserve so much more.’ An extract from Our Members Be Unlimited

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 7.Jun.22
  • 0 Comments

Meaningful action vs sterile and harmful action

Type
Cartoon
Category
Politics
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 2.Jun.22
  • 0 Comments

Inside ‘Corporate Memphis’

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 2.May.22
  • 3 Comments

Don't start what you can't finish

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 31.Mar.22
  • 2 Comments

Fuck lawns

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 28.Feb.22
  • 4 Comments

Who's afraid of gay blood?

Type
Cartoon
Category
Health
LGBTIQ
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 1.Feb.22
  • 1 Comment

The work to be done

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 20.Dec.21
  • 4 Comments

Make the Yarra swimmable

Type
Cartoon
Category
Melbourne
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 21.Nov.21
  • 5 Comments

Our strength to strike is built through striking

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 11.Oct.21
  • 1 Comment

Revealed: how much rich people care about your mental health

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 7.Sep.21
  • 2 Comments

Safe injecting rooms save lives

Type
Cartoon
Category
Health
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 31.Aug.21
  • 5 Comments

The People's Olympiad

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 8.Aug.21
  • 1 Comment

Right-wing Queensland: a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Type
Cartoon
Category
Politics
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 28.Jun.21
  • 3 Comments

Workers and unions: stand with Palestine

Type
Cartoon
Category
Palestine
Unions
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 24.May.21
  • 1 Comment

The open-and-shut case against prison expansion

Type
Cartoon
Category
Prison
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 28.Apr.21
  • 0 Comments

Using power builds power

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 23.Mar.21
  • 0 Comments

Greetings from the Sydney Opera House: completed under workers' control

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 15.Feb.21
  • 4 Comments

The housing crisis is a choice made by the state

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 20.Jan.21
  • 3 Comments

Social housing is not the same as public housing

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 19.Nov.20
  • 3 Comments

May Day 2020

Type
Art
Category
Comics
Labour
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 239 Winter 2020

Solidarity with the wharfies

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 3.Oct.20
  • 0 Comments

Vale Jack Mundey

Type
Cartoon
Category
Obituary
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 13.May.20
  • 17 Comments

On panic buying

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman and Miroslav Sandev
  • 10.Mar.20
  • 14 Comments

It's business, as usual! How to deal with IMARC protesters

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 30.Oct.19
  • 0 Comments

Guest artist for Overland 236: Sam Wallman

Type
Art
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 236 Spring 2019

What became of the right to strike

Type
Article
Category
Unions
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 14.Oct.19
  • 2 Comments

Do a revolution already, will ya?

Type
Cartoon
Category
Climate politics
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 26.Aug.19
  • 0 Comments

How a persecuted union movement fought back

Type
Cartoon
Category
Labour history
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 20.May.19
  • 0 Comments

What is a strike?

Type
Cartoon
Category
Unions
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 13.Mar.19
  • 1 Comment

Guest artist for Overland 225: Sam Wallman

Type
Art
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 225 Summer 2016

Never forget Tyrone Unsworth

Type
Cartoon
Category
Homophobia
LGBTIQ
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 28.Nov.16
  • 1 Comment

The path to voting Trump

Type
Cartoon
Category
Capitalism in decline
Politics
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 4.Nov.16
  • 0 Comments

Read this!

Type
Reflection
Category
Activism
Fair Australia Prize
Writing
  • By Jacinda Woodhead, Sam Wallman and Carina Garland
  • 18.Aug.16
  • 3 Comments

Sunshine votes

Type
Cartoon
Category
Democracy
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 2.Jul.16
  • 0 Comments

#INeedSafeSchools

Type
Cartoon
Category
Activism
LGBTIQ
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 24.Mar.16
  • 1 Comment

#INeedSafeSchools

Type
Polemic
Category
LGBTIQ
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 24.Mar.16
  • 0 Comments

Chaplains versus the Safe Schools Coalition

Type
Cartoon
Category
LGBTIQ
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 26.Feb.16
  • 13 Comments

Ain’t no border high enough

Type
Cartoon
Category
Activism
Refugee rights
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 221 Summer 2015

I can't believe it's only 15 steps!

Type
Cartoon
Category
Activism
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 11.Nov.15
  • 1 Comment

This is me patiently explaining what mansplaining is

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 28.Aug.15
  • 2 Comments

The nation state of the internet

Type
Cartoon
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 27.Apr.15
  • 1 Comment

Art

Type
Art
  • By Sam Wallman, Lily Mae Martin, Mahla Karimiyan, Leuli Eshraghi, Merv Heers, Madina Sayar, Anton Pulvirenti and Alwy Fadhel
  • 217 Summer 2014

Art

Type
Art
  • By Safdar Ahmed, Sam Wallman, Joanna Anderson, Keith McDougall, Kate Parrish and Abdul Adbullah
  • 216 Spring 2014

Art

Type
Art
  • By Sam Wallman, Amy Hill, Matt Huynh, Patrick Kyle, Marc Pearson, Jo Waite, Javed de Costa, Angela Mitropoulos and Mary Leunig
  • 215 Winter 2014

Cartoon: Protest at the Department of Immigration

Type
Reflection
Category
Activism
  • By Sam Wallman
  • 11.Nov.13
  • 2 Comments
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