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The Drawing Book

Sam Hester

Comics about my life in Calgary/Moh'kinsstis, Canada.

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Latest Issues

Is it true that I'm no longer young?

Hello, drawing book readers! Here’s this week’s selection of pages from my old sketchbook journal series. I started posting these back in 2023, with my first journals from 1996. Now it’s 2026 and we’ve reached 2003!

At this time, I was li...

3 days ago

Sketching my way through a year full of changes

Hello, drawing book readers! I made it back to share some more comics from my old sketchbook journal series. I usually find time to do this on the weekends, but these days, it seems that even the weekends are busy. Here I am finishing this...

10 days ago

Wedding comics

Hello, drawing book readers! This week, we’re finally looking back into the old sketchbook journals I kept many years ago, when I was a twenty-something flight attendant trying to navigate life in Calgary. In this episode, which was written...

24 days ago
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Literary Sketchnotes

Hello, drawing book readers! This week I have something different - instead of a comic from my old drawing book, here’s a little sketchnote page from a recent Calgary event that I was happy to attend.

The Writers’ Trust of Canada is a uni...

a month ago

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother’s Day!

I’m going to go and visit my mom, so instead of a Drawing Book comic today, here’s a comics page from 2014, when I had a new baby and a five-year-old. To all the multitasking mamas out there (and all the amazing folks w...

a month ago
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