Listings for posts & works-in-progress from the REVOLUTION SKETCHBOOK (1776-2026):
BIG WATCH EVENTS | Historical Context | NH Stories | Thomas Paine | John & Abigail Adams | Declaration of Independence
EVENTS:
REVOLUTION @ Hopkinton, NH 🌟 “Origin Stories”
Drawing @ a BIG WATCH event / 31 March 2026
REVOLUTION @ Exeter, NH 🌟 “Creation Myths”
Drawing common purpose @ a BIG WATCH event / April 2026
REVOLUTION @ Dover, NH 🌟 “Country of Immigrants”
New immigrants talking American Revolution, 1776… / May 2026
CREATIVITY & HISTORY 🎞️ Ken Burns Interview
Comics adaptation of an interview at Concord, NH…
TO BE POSTED:
Portsmouth | Plymouth | Bradford Pines | …
HISTORICAL CONTEXT MINIS:
The SEVEN YEARS WAR 🌎 North America (1756-1763)
THE CHALLENGE: Can we show the entire war, one year per page?
COMMON CAUSE (1763-1773)☕ Acts of Parliament before the Revolution
An 8-page mini to help keep all these PRE-WAR LAWS in order…
“This Tea Is Too Cheap!” #1 🫖 (Boston Tea Party / 1767-1773)
Revolution’s brewing in colonial Boston…
“This Tea Is Too Cheap!” #2 🫖 (Boston Tea Party / 16 Dec. 1773)
Hot-takes from Abigail + Sam + John Adams & the Town of Boston…
COMMON CAUSE (1774+)🔥 More Acts before the Revolution
More PRE-WAR LAWS & reactions to ’em…
NEW HAMPSHIRE STORIES:
CONSTITUTION COMICS #1: “New, Strange & Terrible Doctrines” 💭 (w/ Prof. Updike-Schulzke)
“For the People [are] the Source of all Authority…” ~ John Adams!
NH State COMICStitution 📜✏️ 1776 Preamble
“WE, the members of the CONGRESS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE…” ~ Drawn from the world’s first modern constitution!
NATIONAL & STATE CONSTITUTIONS: What’s the Difference? 📜 (w/ Prof. Williams)
“50% of Americans don’t even realize they have a STATE constitution!”
NH’s Black Revolutionaries
Hundreds of African American men from New Hampshire served in the American Revolution. Their stories highlight New England’s complicated history of slavery, freedom, and community.
NH State COMICStitution 📖 1784 Bill of Rights (Articles #1-12 & 83a)
The official “Live Free And Draw” adaptation of the original 1784 text…
THOMAS PAINE:
COMMON SENSE: Asylum (1776)📜 Thomas Paine
Issues of debate from 250 years ago…
“The King of America” 👑⛏️ Thomas Paine / Common Sense (1776)
It’s early 1776, & Tom Paine has an idea for a new civic holiday…
“From a Small Spark” 🔥 Thomas Paine (1792)
Envisioning worldwide awakening in “The Rights of Man (Part the 2nd)”
JOHN & ABIGAIL ADAMS:
“Objects of the most Stupendous Magnitude…” 🌠 John Adams (9 June 1776)
Writing from the Continental Congress, on the eve of the Declaration of Independence!
Writing the Declaration #1 (1776)📜 John Adams
Taking us into the room where it happened…
DRAWN / YET TO POST:
- “The Greatest Question Ever!!” / Letter to Abigail / 3 July 1776
- “What do we mean by REVOLUTION?” / Letter / 1818
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
- Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies…” (March 1776)
DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE:
D.I.Y. Declaration of Independence 📖✏️ (POSTER EDITION)
What does this REVOLUTIONARY SENTENCE look like when YOU draw it out…?
D.I.Y. Declaration of Independence 📖✏️ Preamble (TEMPLATE BOOKLET)
Let’s take a moment to cartoon the core ideas of the US government ~ You might be surprised by how it looks!
“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)
Revolution as civic duty…
1776 CRIMES OF THE KING
Drawn from the “List of Grievances” in the US Declaration of Independence…
