EXTRACTS: Illustrators Crime Comics Special © 2020 Book Palace Books (144 pages in full edition)

142 1 Little Monsters, Script -Tony Fabro © Three Panel Crimes, Art - Robert Sammelin © Robert Sammelin 3 2 God’; I wondered who influenced him and stumbled onto Lynd Ward’s work. Lynd Ward did a series of “Wordless Novels” that were made of woodcuts. I tracked them down, and was fascinated by how much story he could get into a single image on a page. The idea for @threepanelcrimes popped into my head. A complete crime story, once per week, told in just three silent panels. I wrote eight scripts and started making it a daily practice to write at least one per day. I reached out to an artist (Dexter Wee) and a colourist (Chris Northrop) and we set out to finish and post at least one comic strip per week… no matter what. In the last two years it’s been a great motivator for staying focused on my longer projects. Getting that sense of accomplishment from putting something out and engaging with an audience. That audience has grown to over 30K followers on Instagram, and I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with about 150 different artists from all over the world. I’m really grateful for the community and the great people I’ve met because of @threepanelcrimes, and I look forward to continuing to learn this art-form. ● ● Check out the @threepanelcrimes Instagram page as well as www.threepanelcrimes.com for more great tales of murder, mystery and mayhem