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Sam Wallman

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.

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Sam Wallman is an Australian comics journalist, political cartoonist1 and editor based in Melbourne, Victoria. He is actively involved in the trade union movement,2 having previously been a union delegate, and an employee of the National Union of Workers.3

In 2014, the team behind his viral comic At Work In Our Detention Centres: A Guard's Story was nominated for a Walkley Award,4 and won the Australian Human Rights Award5 in the Print and Online Media category. In 2016, his long-form comic essays Winding Up The Window: The End of Australia's Auto Industry6 and Brick by Brick: Is This Europe7 were nominated8 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.9 The book was also shortlisted for the 2023 the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards.10

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  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. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  10. "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.