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"stunningly rendered by Alison Sampson, whose art bears favorable comparison with such European masters of the comics form as Alberto Breccia, Alex Nino and Sergio Toppi." "beautiful art" - Goran Parlov contact email: [email protected]

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@arcaneimages and I launched a comic at Image Expo: Winnebago Graveyard. Written by Steve, drawn by me, colored by the incredible Stephane Paitreau and lettered by Clem Robins, this is the story of a family on holiday who get stuck in a town full of Satanists.

It’s about 70% Americana (a bit like True Blood) and about 30% ripping off of heads. You can read about it here:

comicbook.com

bleeding cool

comic book resources

the outhousers

I made some temporary tattoos, which i have few sets (see above) left of, contact me if you want one. Satanism FTW.

It’s also super fun to draw, better get on with that.

Will add sequentials as and when on my new website.

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I’ll be doing all four days of ECCC this year and have a table at J13. I’m on the same aisle as Raina Telgemeier and just a couple of tables across and along from Noelle Stevenson. I’ll have a big red, blue and black banner I can’t show you as it will have an image from the image book I’ll have just announced on it, and which I’m not supposed to talk about yet. But there’s a triangle, that’s a clue.

There are also have some pretty temporary tattoos connected with that thing, for $5 a sheet, which includes the sword on the image above. So there will be many pretty things for sale, including some prints connected with the above mentioned image book. If its not too busy I’m happy to do portfolio reviews too, and looking and chatting is always free. As ever, there’s free badges for under 10s, too. it will be nice to meet people.

If I’m not at my table, I’ll either be around the floor (I have a blue streak in the front of my hair is another clue), or in a meeting or here:

My schedule is a bit of a work in progress, but here’s a start

(Cleveland and Los Angeles and then..)

Wednesday 06

Image Expo, all day. Announcing, chatting, maybe a bit of signing, and the Spring Formal. I love our book.

Thursday April 07

2- 3pm Joon Industry Women and Genderqueer Mixer. T204

5.00- 5.45pm Signing with Image Comics at the ECCC main signings area

Friday April 08

3.00- 4.00pm Signing the Broken Frontier Anthology at A Wave Blue World’s booth, with is just next to Oni and Image’s booths.

Saturday April 09

1.00- 2.00pm Signing the Broken Frontier Anthology at A Wave Blue World

Sunday April 10

2.00- 3.00pm Signing the Broken Frontier Anthology at A Wave Blue World with the most excellent Steve Orlando (one of my fave people in comics)

3.45- 4.45pm Panel: How to run your career like a business, with Marissa Louise, Alex de Campi, Steve Lieber, Leila del Duca and me. T301

There’s lots of other exciting panels, I’ll add some if I can (who knows how much wifi the road will have), but I’d point out the Women In Comics ones: here’s the release

Leaving for Portland on Monday morning, with Jes.

Monday night: Portland

Tuesday: Wayward Pines

Thursday and Friday: Berkeley (leaving Saturday)

Los Angeles (Venice): the following Tuesday

and then home..

Exciting times :)

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I’ll be a guest at Image Expo 2016. Excited, honored and- excited. Making a comic is a lot of work and that top line is really quite something else. Only at Image.

If you know me and are going to be there, let me know so I can make sure I find you.

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I’m taking part in this event at the Cleveland Museum of Art on April 01. It is free and open to the public, and the paper I’m giving is Architecture for Storytelling. If you are in the area, please come along, it will be great to see/ meet you. It is an incredible honor to be asked to be part of this (I think) unprecedented event, and also very exciting to see what the architecture students have been doing/ where this architecture-reaches-out-to-comics conversation goes.

Booking is with the museum. Livestream is at EST, I’m at 1.30pm, Chris Ware is later, it all looks pretty good.

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The BBC commissioned me to make a poster- i.e. illustration, design and branding- for National Poetry Day, to use as part of their marathon poetry programming on Radio 4, on their website and for elsewhere on the internet. The We British title reflects the programming, the poetry concerns place, where people come from, and so on. The poster (and I handed in several designs in different aspect ratios) could be broken down so the parts could be used in the different ways. So far I’ve seen several incarnations including an animated one.

Thanks to the Beeb for asking me, you were a lovely client and it was an honour to be involved in this. Also on a personal level, it is a big deal to me, as poetry is very much a living, evolving art form. Not only was this commissioned for the day, but new poetry from young British poets was commissioned as well. I tried to find the least traditional take on red, white and blue that was possible.

We British page on BBC Radio 4

Kate Tempest spoken word session: School

BBC R4 writing about my commission and the process

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Here’s Dylan Thomas and Bob (again) for the BBC in the final form.

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Dark Horse collected the story Fred Van Lente and I did for Creepy, The Executor, in one of their hardbacks and it came out this week. Thanks again to DH, Fred and our esteemed editor, Brendan Wright, for asking me.

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The comic I’m currently working on. More in due course. Editors or creators wanting to know more about what I’m doing or my availability, please email me at alissamp(at)googlemail(dot)com. I can show a lot more of these pages that way and fill you in what’s happening.

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A quick process snap of one of the settings for our story, The Beard, showing our heroine at work. The top panel extract is finished inking. I don’t think you always have to draw everything.

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I’ve drawn a comic with Fred Van Lente for the upcoming Broken Frontier Anthology. Jason Wordie colored it, and Thomas Mauer lettered it, both brilliantly. I’ll post a preview page when that is possible, but it has a nice light tone to contrast with the other comic I’m drawing right now. I very much enjoy working with Fred, and this (creator-owned) story was written for me, so I’m pleased with how it has turned out. The above are just some of the characters...

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The BBC involved me in an exciting upcoming project, and as part of that (more later) they asked me to draw Bob Dylan. Here he is, first with my coloring (it ties in with the wider project) and then the raw inks. I asked Tamra Bonvillain to color over my lines, so that’s the last image. I like Tamra’s work and I’d like to work with her someday, so this was a kind of audition, which she passed with flying (bronzy) colors.

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Art for the DC/Vertigo Mad Max Inspired Artists book. I don't think I've put this online in its entirety before. We were originally asked to submit the art with our text on the image, so this is mine. The image was cropped on bottom, left and right edges for the book, so this is the first time anyone has seen the whole thing.

NB This was made before I saw the film, so I was having a guess as to what the tone might be.

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Mad Max: Fury Road Prequel Comics to Arrive in May - DC Comics imprint Vertigo will release an art book and four prequel comics for Mad Max: Fury Road starting this May.

I'm delighted to have a piece in the art book. This is my first work for Vertigo, and I'm super-flattered to be included in this company. Here is the solicit:

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD – INSPIRED ARTISTS DELUXE EDITION HC  Art by BILL SIENKIEWICZ, LEE BERMEJO, DAVE JOHNSON, PAUL POPE, DAVID MACK, HOWARD CHAYKIN, NICOLA SCOTT, GABRIELE DELL’OTTO, CLIFF CHIANG, GEORGE PRATT, TOMMY LEE EDWARDS, JOHN PAUL LEON, TEDDY KRISTIANSEN, SIMON BISLEY, GILBERT HERNANDEZ, JAVIER PULIDO, TARA McPHERSON, DECLAN SHALVEY, REBEKAH ISAACS, DAVE McKEAN and many more!  With commentary by GEORGE MILLER and the artists  On sale MAY 6 • 144 pg, FC, 7.0625” x 10.875”, $24.99 US • MATURE READERS In anticipation of the upcoming blockbuster film Mad Max: Fury Road, 65 of comics’ best artists took to the post-apocalyptic landscape to interpret this gorgeous and desolate world of George Miller’s design. Inspired by images from the film, each of these visionary artists brings their unique style to a double-page spread of part of the world of Mad Max, with commentary from the artists and Miller himself. From breathtaking action sequences to heartbreaking character portraits, Fury Road will be perfectly captured by a one-of-a-kind array of comics legends, side-by-side with some of the most exciting new talent in the industry!

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I've got a lot of the original art for Genesis in a gallery show, Sequential City, running 6th February through to 15th March at the Anise Gallery, 13a Shad Thames, London SE1 2PU

The private view is from 6pm on 5th February, with drinks, signing and there's fine art prints and books for sale, as well as the originals. The show also includes work by Lando, Hannah Berry (who is doing a workshop), John Riordan, Owen Pomery and Tim Bird. You're all welcome.

Anise Gallery details (also art prices): t: 020 3754 2374 [email protected] [email protected]

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There's infinite ways to tell a story, so I was overjoyed to provide a map for the awesome comic The Wicked + The Divine #7, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, themselves being into.. lots of ways to tell a story. There could have been a lot more puns, too, but massive thanks to the WicDiv editor, Chrissy Williams, for her regulation of something that really might have got out of hand. Here's the preview to the rest.

an excellent set piece that goes a long way for establishing and characterizing a scene in a short period of time. - Comicosity

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Boom Studios announced their new series Ufology, and with it posted my variant cover- girls riding bikes in the countryside looking for danger is home ground.

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Happy New Year 2015.

I was honoured to be asked to contribute to some surveys about comics. Here are the links:

For Tim O'Shea, Looking Back Looking Forward 2014-2015 on Robot6

For Heidi MacDonald, Annual Comics Industry Survey, 2014-2015 on The Beat

On British comics for Vice (probably), as have a few other people (I hope), and that has yet to be published, I'll link it here when that happens.

And- we were here.

And I am no. 48 of creators to look out for this year, 2015, here - thanks to Den of Geek, who have been a really good supporter of my work.

Above: a tiny, tiny bit of something for 2015. Back to work. Must Ink.