november (Patreon)

Hey mates, 

Slowly plodding through mailing everyone out some new zines n stickers and wotnot. Pls reply to this update with your new address if u hav moved house !

Pls let me know if you might also like any of these shirts, I realised they're sitting in my wardrobe never worn them, and i'm not ever gonna wear them i wld feel a bit cringe hahah. they're all mens cut size L

If u want one, leave a comment on this post, that way others will see if any have been snapped up already. also got one of these bags, first in best drest:

I also still have some sizes of these shirts that I made for u Patreon supporters available thru my website. Sourcing the shirts, screenprinting, keeping track of sizes, mailing out and all that was extremely boring so im unlikely to make any more, so get in there if you want one https://www.samwallman.com/patreonsupporters

also a reminder that if u ever wanna buy stuff from the main store the code PAYTRONE at checkout gets u 25% off

drew the above piece after hearing from lots of friends that they find it hard to organise in their workplace if there aren't widespread antagonistic relationships with the boss, or if their co-workers are actually invested in their work. which seems funny to me, if yr invested in your job wldn't u wanna contribute and formally democratise it and have a proper say i dunno. i added the above graphic to the 'downloadable art' section of my website if you want to print one out for your workplace.

drew the above and below pieces for the Trade Union Congress in the UK, in an attempt to highlight all the overlaps between the many and varied strikes happening over there lately, a strike wave pulling together railway workers, teachers, health unions, posties, airline workers, fkn doctors even ~barristers?!?!~

went and visited the sydney university strike recently, was very amused to hear about some inventive picket tactics including students acting in solidarity with their teachers by tirelessly disrupting (/ fillabusting?!) zoom classes when the uni tried to push all classes online as a strike-busting tactic. and also the below guy getting gently placed 😇 into the bushes earlier that day for trying to force his way through the picket.

me and a few friends made this graphic to support the plasterboard manufacturing workers at Knauf in Port Melbourne. we want to see more strikes and more ways for the public to support ppl taking strike action so i think there will be more of these graphics to come.

me and fellow WAC member Hollie also went down to the site and ran an informal banner and placard making workshop with the members as a gesture of solidarity, cos they were getting antsy just sitting around on the picket line non stop. I was rly touched to see everyone get so into painting - my friend pointed out that "yes boredom is a hell of a motivator" 😒😒😒

after 40 days (!) on strike, the workers won the bulk of their demands.

last months drawing for Overland. trying to make an infographic a tenth as good as Mona Chalabi's work. someone on the internet thought the graphic said that we cld potentially make enough renewable energy to power "500 Australians" not "Australias" hahaha.

an Italian translation of 'the history of the boycott' comic i made for The Nib has been published in Internazionale magazine in Italy, if u know anyone over that way who might wanna grab a copy of their next print edition. It will probably also be published on their website next week. Realised i've been drawing for them for like 12 years now which is nice as.

I think in the last update i sent the rough sketch of this drawing i did for a nurse i met at the pub, here is the final:

and an adjacent new piece:

drew this to support Jerome Small's campaign to get elected to Parliament under the Victorian Socialists banner. my first idea was to draw something about how i wld move house so i could vote for him but he said that might be a bit niche, fair enough. for real though if u live in the northern metro seat of melbourne please consider listening to what he has to say, looking at his record, decades of building grassroots power and industrial organising, and think about voting for the guy or even volunteering for VS. apparently he has a real shot of winning the seat the poor bastard

some of you msged me cos u noticed my social media pages are turned off at the moment. thats cos im trying to get a day job and scrambling to hide my low-key mutineer energy hahaha. i may have secured a part time job, im just waiting for the final word from HR. in light of the fact that i worked well over full-time hours last year, but my income was almost ~to the dollar~ the annual australian minimum wage, and i recently received my first royalty cheque for my book, which is *negative* $806 LOLOLOL the publishing industry is hilarious. i've needed to get something a bit more concrete going on for a while now. i'll keep u posted how it all shakes out, and will decide what to do with this Patreon depending on how things come together, how much art im able to continue making n so on... watch this space.

in other news

• ppl in the UK can now get Our Members Be Unlimited in bookstores, or online from this website where u can choose which independent bookseller u want to support.

• it's available in the US too, if you buy the book from Powells Bookstore online using their union partner link, 7.5% of the sale goes toward the ILWU Local 5 strike fund.

• ABC Artworks did a small feature on me n the book, if u didnt see it u can watch it here if you like, i tried to attach it to this post also not sure if that worked or not

• i enjoyed this piece of writing: "The Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as seen from the vantage of a Gay Sauna in London" 

• And this write-up about strippers in Hollywood who are unionising through the actors union. "At an August rally, Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle declared, “they work hard, they are entertainers and artists and athletes, and now they are our siblings in the labor movement.” The crowd chanted, “strippers and actors, shout it from the rafters!”

• On the topic of new frontiers of industrial organisaton, "Fitness trainers are organizing to flex more muscle in their workplaces" 

Talk to you soon thankyou for the support!