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Sam Carbaugh (he/they)

@thisamericanself.bsky.social

Midwestern indie low-fi cartoonist. Graduate of the center for cartoon studies ('09). For the last five years I've been drawing journal comics - trying to bridge the gap between experience and expression, knowing I'll fail I keep going. πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

203 Followers  |  100 Following  |  501 Posts  |  Joined: 11.11.2024  |  1.8267

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#webcomic drawn in the sun.

14.11.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic on my Patreon for my Patrons. Here's a panel from the first in a series in gender and being nonbinary.

13.11.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about depression, again, yay.

12.11.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about my tree dropping all of its leaves.

11.11.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about locking people out of my life and assuming the worst.

11.11.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about my inner Judge.

09.11.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about heavy feelings.

08.11.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, thanks Steve! You are an amazing man and I'm glad we had those talks.

08.11.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Being 42 is weird. It's like all my nostalgia was resold to me in my 20s and 30s leaving me with...nothing. Having zero nostalgia is a weird feeling that I forget to notice...like how quiet the bugs have gotten in the summer.

07.11.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about emotional disability.

07.11.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about my Patreon. Check it out if you haven't yet.

06.11.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading Pedro Lemebel's works about living under fascism during the AIDS crisis in the 80s is both inspiring and frightening. How many Americans know how we funded, supported, and encouraged fascist regimes in South America? How many know that we are going through the same thing here?

05.11.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic, beautiful day, dreadful headspace.

04.11.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about feeling stuck in the AI no man's land of job hunting in 2025.

04.11.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You know, if the government is shut down, why should the rest of us do our jobs? Sounds like the start of a general strike.

03.11.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I did some garden clearing this weekend. Coneflower stalks have cut and stacked together on top of drop seed clippings along our fenceline where they can provide shelter for insect eggs and a roof for small mammals to burrow under.

I remembered the goldfinches as I cut the stalks.

03.11.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh. Congrats to the kingdom of Japan for winning the world series.
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Seriously, without Ohtani and Yamamoto, Jays would've won easily. Ugh.
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I just hate how it underscores the fact that these days money wins.

02.11.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love it!

01.11.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to do a few parodies of the old Apple Computer posters: "Apple, think different" campaign. Only, it would be for openAI, use iconic photos of dictators with the phrase "chatGPT: don't think"

30.10.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Give to your local food bank. Build mutual aid wherever and however you can. If we’re going to make something better it’s going to depend on reinvigorating a sense of interconnectedness.

We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.

28.10.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 668    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8
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#webcomic about getting numb to all the headlines of terror in the 21st century.

30.10.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomic about world series baseball. Go Jay's.

30.10.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's do yet another retelling of A Christmas Carol, but instead of a deeply hurt, inwardly suffering individual with a coal of empathy in his heart to fan into a flame, Scrooge is a malignant narcissist and even horrifies the ghost of Christmas yet to come.

29.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How can we organize all the out of work project managers to organize the downfall of oligarchy?

29.10.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chat GPT: never think again.
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That should be their tagline.

29.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chat GTP: overinflating underperforming middle managers and c-suite egos.
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26.10.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#webcomkc about my dual reality: good stuff happening, heavy stuff churning.

24.10.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ten years ago, frogs were symbols of hate groups. Today inflatable frogs are a symbol of liberty and equality. Keep hop alive.

24.10.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It doesn't have to. These are all bad actors with selfish motives. They are gleefully destroying our nation for their own benefit.

22.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This American Self | Patreon Comics about living with mental illness in modern America

Hey folks, check with my comics.
www.patreon.com/ThisAmerican...

22.10.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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