Sam Weber was born in Alaska and grew up in Deep River Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, he moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. In addition to drawing, Sam works part time as assistant art director of the OpEd page at the New York Times, with senior art director Brian Rea. Current likes include Italian and Japanese comics, David Lynch movies, and hanging out with his wife, Jillian, who is also a successful illustrator.

Clients

Sam's clients include: The New Yorker, The New York Times, Scholastic, Sony/BMG, Random House, The L.A. Times and Penguin.

Sam was chosen to take part in our 'Watch This Space' exhibition by The Illustration Gallery.

I had loads of fun putting this show together and couldn’t resist the indulgence of choosing an artist myself. It was a difficult choice, since there are so many brilliantly talented illustrators out there - the mind boggles, but mine was made up pretty quickly after first reading about Sam Weber’s work on Drawn! and then in the AOI’s fabulous Varoom magazine (www.varoom-mag.com).

Sam’s work, deftly combining digital and traditional methods to great effect, is astonishingly powerful. His images have a kind of epic solemnity, really serious and grave – they look like they’ve been there for a thousand years! And that makes it even more startling, when you learn that Sam only completed his studies in 2005. For an artist so early on in his career, he has an extraordinarily well-developed personal style, complete with his own unique iconography.

I really love Sam Weber’s work – his illustrations on the page have a tremendous impact and even more so, I think, on the wall!"

- Oliver Jelf, The Illustration Gallery