Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Sam Wallman is an Australian comics journalist, political cartoonist[1] 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 Award[5] 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[6] and Brick by Brick: Is This Europe[7] were nominated[8] 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]