Samax

Description: "In times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude." -Wallace D. Wattles Everyone (and I do mean EVERYONE) agrees that gratitude will help you get through hard times, improve good times, and appreciate great times. The more you cultivate gratitude, the more benefit you will experience, where ever the benefit may be coming from.

Description: "In times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude." -Wallace D. Wattles Everyone (and I do mean EVERYONE) agrees that gratitude will help you get through hard times, improve good times, and appreciate great times. The more you cultivate gratitude, the more benefit you will experience, where ever the benefit may be coming from.

Description: "In times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude." -Wallace D. Wattles Everyone (and I do mean EVERYONE) agrees that gratitude will help you get through hard times, improve good times, and appreciate great times. The more you cultivate gratitude, the more benefit you will experience, where ever the benefit may be coming from.

Description: One of my favorite comedians is actually a puppet: Chad the Bird. If Chad gets up early (like the bird that gets the proverbial worm), it's NOT so he can go running. We know that much!

Description: GhettoManga is back as a monthly magazine by Samax Amen (with assorted collaborators and friends) 24 pages (color and black and white) WHAT TO EXPECT Previews, reviews, and fan art of comics, movies, tv shows, hip hop music, comic strips, political cartoons, original comic book works in progress, lots of opinions.

Description: I renewed my library card. I'm drunk with the power of books and what not. So I made a comic strip about it.

Description: Back when Covid had the streets in a choke hold, I made a series of images trying to motivate my countrymen to be less filthy or whatever.  For whatever reason, y'all found WASH YOUR HANDS PLEASE, a piece I made from a doodle in my Big Black Sketchbook, really polarizing. It had people clamoring for a blank version, but I never got around to it. So last week the piece came up in my memories (can't remember if it was Facebook or Google) but I decided to fix that.  So here's the blank version y'all asked for.  Maybe he don't even care if you nasty.

Description: I ran across the artwork for my "Wash Your Hands, Please" design, and remembered I had promised to post it without the text. So here you go :) GhettoManga Variant

Description: Made this design for a stranger in the internet. Just in case she never makes it, I decided to drop it myself.

Description: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..." ― Marianne Williamson

Description: My magazine GhettoManga is coming to Patreon, so I needed a profile pic. I figured combining the GM logo with my Sketchcloud drawing, since it combines comics, hip hop, art, culture, and ME! Nothing's more GhettoManga than that!

Description: This started as a drawing in my sketchbook based on my favorite set by my favorite avian standup comedian. Do yourself a favor and go to YouTube's search bar and type in "Chad the Bird I wanna go to space" You're welcome.

Description: Fan Art Friday (05/19/2023) by Samax Amen

Description: Fan Art Friday (05/19/2023) by Samax Amen

Description: GhettoManga's mandate is to cover the intersection of pop culture that includes the wide spectrum of art, comics, hip hop, and news that is relevant to the culture. That includes superhero movies!

Description: THE MUSE RETURNS - After ghosting on our hero almost a year ago, Lady Flamingo is back with a new mission that only he can help with! Is her proposal a dream come true, or a disastrous heartbreak waiting to happen?

Description: If you've ever met me... I really have probably drawn a picture of you behind your back. And no, you can't see it!

Description: Because WHO DOESN'T LOVE a good car chase?

Description: Noose was the fans' choice of my Choose My Next Comic Survey, and I finally started writing a short story that introduces him and my whole universe to the world. The villain of the story is Backbone, a golden age mastermind who has fallen on hard times.

Description: There is nothing more powerful than a human being with a made up mind.

Description: "Sic transit gloria . . . Glory fades." Just an obscure quote from one of my top favorite movies of all time. If you know, you know.

Description: This one started as a dry-erase board doodle. My students loved this character, so don't be surprised if you see more of him! In the meanwhile, free your mind, think critically, and do the knowledge!

Description: I haven't used this image of my friend's character as the cover to my magazine GhettoManga yet, but that day will come. Definitely need this teeshirt though...

Description: I haven't used this image of my friend's character as the cover to my magazine GhettoManga yet, but that day will come. Definitely need this teeshirt though...

Description: I ran across this character design chart from a project I worked around 20 years ago and just HAD to upload it so I could rock the tee myself!

Description: We gotta make better choices guys...

Description: This painting is an example of what I call a Sketch Cloud... a dream-like mash of smaller drawings that comes together at some point to make a satisfactory composition. As the title implies, this piece is about the wanderings of my mind more than anything else. Hope you like it!

Description: One of my patrons commissioned me to create a painting about love and human connection. That was all the direction she gave. She loved how I had handled the subject in the past, so that's what she wanted. LOVE SEAT, a 24 x 36 Acrylic and india ink piece on canvas, was the result.

Description: Sometimes an idea won't let me go until I draw it. So I drew it. Hopefully now I can get some sleep?

Description: I have a new muse... She lives in my mind, rent free. This piece started out in my sketchbook, and got finished in photoshop.

Description: If you know something to be true, you don't need convincing, I guess.

Description: Sometimes hate wins over love.

Description: Sometimes love wins over hate.

Description: Life Is Good is a Sketch Cloud that I drew in 2018. I drew it during a pretty hard time in my life, but it was a time when I had started to embrace the power of maintaining a good attitude. I drew it with a pencil on an 8x10 sheet of off-white 110 lb card stock paper. LIFE IS GOOD is all about appreciating the little things.  Because having a good attitude about life makes all the difference! This drawing is equal parts inspirational and silly (yes, that really is a toilet and a poop emoji).   Whatever it takes to get through the day, am I right?!? 

Description: "I heard a voice that sounds like Barry White say 'Show ya right'..."

Description: I love myself. I trust myself. I honor myself. I value myself. Simple design for a simple message.