SAM THE DOG BOOKS 1 & 2
D.B. Dowd’s acidly satirical Sam the Dog ran for 108 weeks from 1997 and 1999 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. An allegory of race and class, these excerpts reinvent classic black and white line drawing into explosive color and typographic expression. The little books are bleak, rich, dense and grimly funny. I was looking to accentuate the texture of the illustrations by using scale and careful cropping so each spread becomes more special than the one before.
