SAM HILL (2009)

Okay, here we go--here's my first sketch leading into the actual production of the current graphic novel, The Cavalier Mr. Thompson. A thumbnail sketch for the first chapter, Jailbaby. That figure in the soldier's uniform at the bottom of the sketch is Sam (he joins the Army in the 1929 book) and hints at a Dirty Dozen-type of WW2 novel to come sometime in the future... he would be quite old by then, yet volunteers to serve as the U.S. loses more and more men overseas.