Uploaded June 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Yvan Guillo is not an illustrator who is about to be held back by traditional practices. One day while he was sampling the tonal background of vintage comics to create a more retro feel in his own panels, he accidentally selected an area with a character in it, and his crazy new mash-up technique was born. He has continued creating works using these techniques under the pseudonym Samplerman, posting them on a Tumblr of the same name to create an extensive series. Even better, he created the word “procrastinatic” to describe such an activity. Making up formats and adjectives? Who is this enigmatic creator?
The Samplerman comics have now grown into a huge archive of works which are more redolent of a strange Surrealist painting than of anything Marvel might have made.
"I am a French cartoonist, born in the early 70s and living in Brittany. I have been doing comics since my childhood, and more intensively (if not professionally) for more than 20 years. My pages are published in several fanzines – Gorgonzola, Que Suerte and Hopital Brut. I have also had my own collective Crachoir for many years. Most of my work is self-published, and I’ve made works as diverse as stories for children, or surrealist drawings in black ink or… Samplerman. For a living I’m also a graphic designer."
[from: itsnicethat.com/articles/samplerman]
Music: Hammock "Dark Beyond The Blue"
Yvan Guillo is not an illustrator who is about to be held back by traditional practices. One day while he was sampling the tonal background of vintage comics to create a more retro feel in his own panels, he accidentally selected an area with a character in it, and his crazy new mash-up technique was born. He has continued creating works using these techniques under the pseudonym Samplerman, posting them on a Tumblr of the same name to create an extensive series. Even better, he created the word “procrastinatic” to describe such an activity. Making up formats and adjectives? Who is this enigmatic creator?
The Samplerman comics have now grown into a huge archive of works which are more redolent of a strange Surrealist painting than of anything Marvel might have made.
"I am a French cartoonist, born in the early 70s and living in Brittany. I have been doing comics since my childhood, and more intensively (if not professionally) for more than 20 years. My pages are published in several fanzines – Gorgonzola, Que Suerte and Hopital Brut. I have also had my own collective Crachoir for many years. Most of my work is self-published, and I’ve made works as diverse as stories for children, or surrealist drawings in black ink or… Samplerman. For a living I’m also a graphic designer."
[from: itsnicethat.com/articles/samplerman]
Music: Hammock "Dark Beyond The Blue"
