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Australian cartoonist and comics journalist

Sam Wallman is an Australian comics journalist, political cartoonist and editor based in Melbourne, Victoria. He is actively involved in the trade union movement, having previously been a union delegate, and an employee of the National Union of Workers.

In 2014, the team behind his viral comic At Work In Our Detention Centres: A Guard's Story was nominated for a Walkley Award, and won the Australian Human Rights Award in the Print and Online Media category. In 2016, his long-form comic essays Winding Up The Window: The End of Australia's Auto Industry and Brick by Brick: Is This Europe were nominated for Walkley Awards.

He was shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction for Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic about Workers and Their Unions. The book was also shortlisted for the 2023 the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards.

References

  1. "An Interview With Sam Wallman, TLB32 Cover Artist | The Lifted Brow". theliftedbrow.com. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  2. ""With its militarised borders, Australia is leading by the worst possible example"". Equal Times. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  3. "Creating a 'town square' for workers online « The Walkley Foundation". www.walkleys.com. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  4. "The Serco story… short-circuited". Walkleys. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  5. Dominic.O'Grady (10 December 2014). "Human Rights Awards honour quiet Australian heroes". www.humanrights.gov.au. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  6. "Winding up the Window: the end of the Australian Auto Industry". News. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  7. "Brick by Brick: A comic from Eastern Europe's border crisis". News. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  8. "SBS nominated for two Walkley Awards". News. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  9. "The 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  10. "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
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