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About Salgood Sam
Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas, first put his work in zines in the late 80s, and started making comics professionally in the early 90s. In the mid 90s he started writing his name backwards as a pen name.
Since then his work has been published notably by Image, IDW/NMK, Marvel & DC, and outside of comics clients have included The Criterion Collection, Bravo TV, Nokia, Nelvana Studios, and Fox among many others.
He still makes comics, mostly for the love. And illustrates professionally, mostly for the money. And teaches art part time, for both.
He lives in downtown Montreal with three cats and his wife and it is good.
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Download the PDF to look at on your device of choice, and then play the audio! I use the classic convention of a chime to signal when to turn the page.
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Titles By Salgood Sam
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“I couldn't put this down. Seriously. It’s a keeper. Salgood Sam has one of the most interesting, unique voices in comics today.” – Mark Waid
Murder in BC leads to an inuksuk in Ontario.Charlie’s childhood friend is about to die.
Hitchhiking in BC PJ’s luck runs out.
Lionel is in crisis, time for love?
Leslie is a therapist and part time drug dealer. It’s just occurring to her that she hates her job.
Dan’s six year old daughter thinks he needs to grow up. She may have a point.
A story of accidental adventure, failed dreams and fantasy lives, in a possibly ambivalent universe.
161 pages of cinematic, neorealist comics by Salgood Sam.
First in a two part story,
“Salgood Sam is a gifted draftsman. In Dream Life you can see he’s enjoying himself immensely drawing every page of this sprawling story. Beautiful stuff.” – Joe Ollmann
“Those who love and cherish our involuntary interior rambles can enjoy more of a good thing, by diving into Salgood’s universal trance adapter. Those who like to stretch out on the couch and become immersed in a compelling story terrifically told and beautifully drawn can scratch that particular itch as well, via Salgood Sam’s powerful virtuosic graphic novel Dream Life.” - Jim Woodring
“I recently read Salgood Sam’s new graphic novel, Dream Life, and it is sensational. The story is thrilling, heartfelt and heartbreaking. And the way Sam presents his narrative, weaving events, past and present with a large cast of characters is evocative of a dream and a tour de force of comics storytelling.” – Batton Lash
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'Sequential tectonic shift.' "Salgood's drifting vision has an incredible sense of space and freedom. Your eye moves across the page continuously, an angel floating through worlds. Usually the dynamic movement of the images themselves direct your vision, like little signposts that bounce you around the worlds Sam has created. The narratives sometimes unmoor themselves from everyday reality, moving into poetic or existentialist territory, but never loses its grounding in very concrete images. Revolver plays with how we perceive things, and where we anchor ourselves. This is reflected in the way panels bleed into other panels, if there are panels at all. It suggests that sometimes the dream world or the worlds we create in our narratives appear realer than our actual lives, that the membrane between the world we live and the worlds we see ourselves living in is very thin." - Sherwin Tjia --- "It's [creators] like you who'll keep this business going” Will Eisner, just before he asked me to sign the copy I gave him at a convention in Toronto the summer before his death. I don't know if I've earned that praise yet. But it is something I aspire to live up to. – Max
<--Bio:--> Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas, first put his work in zines in the late 80s, and started making comics professionally in the early 90s. In the mid 90s he started writing his name backwards as a pen name. Since then his work has been published notably by Image, IDW/NMK, Marvel & DC, and outside of comics clients have included The Criterion Collection, Bravo TV, Nokia, Nelvana Studios, and Fox among many others. He still makes comics, mostly for the love. And illustrates professionally, mostly for the money. And teaches art part time, for both. He lives in downtown Montreal with three cats and his wife and it is good.