“12 Rules for Strife might be economical in its telling, but its stirring imagery and hopeful idealism make for a rich experience — one sure to inspire others to assume the mantle of practical activism.”
Nathan Smith, The Saturday Paper
“In this stunning long-form comic from Australian dream team Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman, sage words combine (often literally) with evocatively trippy illustrations to impart upon the reader 12 rules for effective, transformative, and intersectional activism. This book only *seems* small — the lessons within are mighty and the art will dazzle your brain!.”
Tove Holmberg, Powell's Books
“This visual guide to a life of effective activism is dramatically illustrated and punchily-written … [M]uch of this brief book made a big impression on me. These will stay with me a long time: the rejection of ‘smug politics’ and how direct action doesn’t just change the world, it changes the activist — developing talents, increasing confidence, challenging prejudices, and more.”
Megan Bell, Underground Books
“A great deal of effort has obviously gone into conceptualizing this book regarding what rules to select and formulate and how these might be treated visually. The result is that the text and illustrations merge creatively, the two becoming one in a seamless unity. The end product is more than a book; it is a significant work of political art.”
Rowan Cahill, Recorder
“Combining the distilled wisdom of socialist writer Jeff Sparrow and the graphic ingenuity of comic artist Sam Wallman, 12 Rules for Strife is a handbook for changing everything … Wallman continues the mind-expanding style demonstrated in his previous book Our Members Be Unlimited. Each page bursts forth with breaking walls, connecting ribbons and masses of people combining as one. So much is communicated with relatively few words.”
Andrew Chuter, Green Left
Praise for Our Members Be Unlimited:
“Activist and comics journalist Wallman debuts with a convincing, transfixing graphic history of the impact and future potential of unions … This is a dynamic, persuasive look at labor power.”
Publishers Weekly
Praise for Our Members Be Unlimited:
“Wallman achieves what many on the left struggle with: he makes history, theory, and organizing practice accessible and fun to read about.”
Matthew Noe, Booklist
Praise for Our Members Be Unlimited:
“Our Members Be Unlimited helps us realize that, when we build union solidarity in the workplace, our efforts go beyond wages and conditions—rekindling the old spirit of collectivism is how we build a better future for humanity.”
Jacobin
Praise for Crimes Against Nature:
“Sparrow tells these stories with the lucidity and animation of a true crime podcast … He is fearless too in his criticism of progressives who write off their fellow citizens as uncaring and complicit.”
The Saturday Paper
Praise for Crimes Against Nature:
“This urgent, incisive work [shows] how industrialization, in the hands of the wealthy and powerful, drove a wedge between ordinary people and the natural world.”
The Sydney Morning Herald
Praise for Crimes Against Nature:
“[E]xquisitely argued.”
Thomas Klikauer, Marx & Philosophy
