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A (rather idealized) view of my home studio, in the wonderful neighbourhood of Ramsay, in the city of Calgary! |
Sam Hester is a Calgary artist and writer. Since having my son Alec in 2009, this website has been my main artistic creation, along with daily crayon drawings of dump trucks and trains. However, Alec has already inspired a whole new little comics series, so perhaps my artistic endeavours are simply taking a new direction! Sam's comics journal the drawing book led to her autobiographical comics being published in several acclaimed anthologies. She is also well-known as a portrait painter, and in 2006 was a "top finalist" in the Portrait Society of Canada's annual international portrait competition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. |
You'd think that all this would be enough. But no! I also have a secret passion. For a long time I have been an independent scholar of so-called "Young Adult Fiction" - which means that even though I'm not affiliated with any academic institution, I like to read and write scholarly (and sometimes not-so-scholarly) stuff about teenager books. |
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