sickos (Patreon)

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 online store for patreon supporters only, which i think will be the only way to get  the shirts since i didnt have that many of them made up, and i dont rly wanna turn into more of a retail outlet lol, wld rather spend my time drawing
https://www.samwallman.com/patreonsupporters
password is PAYTRONE .
or if cash is tight + u rly want one just let me know and ill send ya or set up a bigger discount or whatever

i didnt realise most ppl no matter gender seem to prefer "mens" shirt cuts, so if all things are equal to u, pls choose the womens option on the dropdown menu when ur choosing, if u dont hav a strong preference. as always, 25% discount code is PAYTRONE if u want to use that.

in a very surreal feeling development, middle of next month looks like im going to the US to finally meet my partners family and stay with them for a while. i plan to paint a bunch of murals over there and continue plugging away on my usual work, extra excited about it cos there seems to be a bit of a strike wave happening over there atm. but yeah because of this trip, pls get ur shirt orders in by like first wk of next month cos i'll have to stop shipping stuff out soon after that. also wanted to say, im not gonna spend patreon bux on airline tickets or daquari's or whatever, hahaha, will keep using the $ to offset the production of political art that there's no budget for. i plan to paint several murals over there, try and cut my teeth in that medium a bit more, so if u have any hookups for good union offices / community spaces / activist bookstores / workplaces or any walls like that pls link me up!!!!! orgs needn't have budgets cos im planning to use Patreon coin for the paint and materials and time.

As i mentioned in the last update, sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead has reneged on key conditions agreed upon as a result of the RAFFWU members industrial action earlier this year. they had a rally on Friday that attracted 150+ ppl which is pretty great. the brilliant Anwen Crawford spoke there and put things nicely - "this is the union movement of the future. It’s young, it’s militant, and most importantly, it’s not stuck like a barnacle to the hull of the Australian Labor Party”. u can follow and support the BRTD dispute here.

finished the poster about the campaign to make the Yarra swimmable, thanks to Leigh Ewbank and Dylan McConnell for the chats when i was developing it. still trying to work out how to get some big prints of it stuck up in the streets, fingers crossed that'll be a goer. this is the finished piece, now with the text added:

trying extremely hard not to draw new shit while i focus on tying off some existing commitments, but i cldnt help it when one of the delegates at Country Road said this at the picket line on Friday:

i wish i cld have mentioned in the drawing that there *was* a hard picket at the site for two days, nothing in nothing out, until the supreme court once again served an injunction with really serious threats if they didnt stop blocking the gates. extremely frustrating.
the workers then started leaf-letting the ring-in scabs as they entered the gates, trying to hook them up with better paying jobs elsewhere (!!!). just on the day i was there, they had turned 20 cars away with this tactic, and the carpark was almost empty. pretty clever pivot in the face of another disgraceful injunction, and maybe part of why they won the dispute yesterday...

came across this recently so thought id include it here, a rare older piece of mine that i don't-hate, 'the nation state of the internet' made for Overland in 2015.

thanks for the support, dont forget 2 order a shirt sooner than later if u want one cos i think some sizes are gonna run dry soon <3