Sam Flegal

Sam Flegal has been fascinated by the strange and the macabre from a very young age. Fortunately for his budding morbid creativity, he was raised in a household that encouraged his interest in all things weird—Sam’s father was a magician and his mother a ventriloquist and clown. As a youth Sam often got in trouble at school for drawing what some of his teachers would call “dark creatures”; however, the encouragement of his friends and family far outweighed the discouragement of a few naysayers.

In December 2003 Sam graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, released out into the world to pursue his own strange art. Since that time Sam has vigorously summoned the dark creatures of his mind to make the unreal, tangible and the imagined, concrete.

Sam currently uses his strange imagination to help others realize their dreams of undeath through the power of Zombie Portraits (www.samflegal.com). Like a caricature from a dark carnival, Sam takes the living and brings out their inner dead. In addition, Sam helps writers and creators bring their visions of fantasy to reality through his strange art and illustration. Recently, Sam’s strange art has been featured in books from Alluria Publishing (www.alluriapublishing.com) and serve as the visual building blocks for the world of Gaeana (www.gaeana.com).

If you are interested in having a Zombie Portrait done of you or a loved one or if you are interested in hiring Sam Flegal as an illustrator, contact him at sam@samflegal.com