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8/22/2026

Hey folks, I have not written anything on this blog in YEARS! That's because in 2023, I started posting weekly comics on Substack instead. My newsletter is called The Drawing Book, and it's where I share my old sketchbook journal comics - the very same kind of thing I used to share on this blog. So, if you are looking for up-to-date posts from me, please check out my Substack here! It's free!

But if you look all the way down the sidebar on this page, you will see the archives: many, many old comics and stories collected here on this blog. That old stuff is kind of fun, too.

This week in The Drawing Book: fragments of an unfinished collection of long-ago Calgary indie comics. Straight from my sketchbook to you!

- Sam Hester

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sam hester

I am a graphic recorder based in Calgary. I like local stories. I write comics when I have free time. And I leave eraser shavings everywhere I go.

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www.the23rdstory.com started as a blog and now includes some information about my graphic recording practice as well.

I also have an (old) website which features a lot of my (old) work. Look out, it's a bit clunky and there are a lot of links that don't go anywhere, but there are still a few interesting things there:
www.thedrawingbook.com

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Some nice things people said about my work:

“If Breitkreuz and Foong [founders of the Calgary Comics & Entertainment Expo] represent the Type-A side of Calgary's self-publishing community, Hester may be the community's right brain.” – Tom Babin, FFWD Magazine

“…A strong graphic style similar to other autobiographically-inclined Canadian cartoonists like Chester Brown and Julie Doucet.” – Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal

The 23rd Story: an indie comics creator's tales of life in Calgary