Sam Heimer

Sam Heimer is an illustrator and toy maker working out of Philadelphia, PA. His incredible and detailed work is focused on weird fiction, horror, and ghoulish entities that walk among us in a world where every night is Halloween. Sam has had artwork published in Weird Tales (originally responsible for publishing a great deal of H.P. Lovecraft's work), has designed album covers and beer labels, helps curate The Order Of The Thinned Veil (a tiered Halloween-themed subscription service) and even makes spooky toys. 
"I’m a freelance illustrator and toy maker working out of Philadelphia, PA. I don’t really have a specific market I work in, but my art tends to lean toward Halloween, Horror and the Macabre. I work in pen and ink with occasional digital color. Current clients include Cadabra Records, Abomination Brewing and other various breweries and distilleries, and a smattering of Halloween merchandisers, just to rattle off a few. I also run a micro toy company, HH Toy and Novelty. We do several releases a year in both resin and PVC, and the toys tend to stick to Horror and Folklore themes."
"I was a doodler all through school. When it was clear I’d never be captain of the football team, my parents started signing me up for Saturday art classes and pre-college art classes. My brother, three years my senior and also a freelance illustrator went to college for illustration, and I followed, graduating with a BFA that serves me about as well as a waiter with no appendages. Inspiration… I really couldn’t tell you. I really saw no other option. I didn’t think I could be happy going to a traditional college and having a 9 to 5 in a non-creative field. I was getting freelance work right out of college, but it took several years to brush off the shackles of an hourly job and go full freelance illustrator. It took all the longer because I’ve been very stubborn about what I create. If I pushed my work lighter, less detail driven, made it more approachable, I probably would have been doing this full-time much sooner, but I would have been less happy with my work."
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Cadabra Releases:
Hallowe'en in a Suburb & Others (2016)
Hallowe'en in a Suburb & Others (2019)
A Christmas Carol (2018)
A Christmas Carol (2019)
The Hound
The Cask of Amontillado
The Raven (2016)
The Raven (2018)
The Signalman
The Hearse Song
The Tell Tale Heart
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mill River Revenant
The Mill River Revenant (Themes from Hell 8)
Cadabra Illustrated 1: The Picture in the House