Dmitry SamarovDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Designin New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993.Upon graduation he promptly began driving a cab-first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago- which eventually led to the publication of his illustrated work memoirs Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and second cabbie book from a press not worth mentioning.Music to My Eyes (Tortoise Books, 2019) is his first non-cabbie-related book.Soviet Stamps (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is the second.All Hack (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is a summation of his cabbie-related work.Old Style (Pictures&Blather, 2021) is his first work of fiction.paint-by-numbers (Pictures&Blather, 2022) is his second.to whom it may concern (Pictures&Blather, 2023) is a collection of new answers to old letters.Making Pictures is How I Talk to the World (Pictures&Blather, 2024) surveys forty years of his art.Since the fall of 2024 he has been illustrating and redesigning public domain novels, starting with Moby Dick, Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, Bruce Wagner's Marvel Universe, and James Hogg's The Suicide's Grave.He has exhibited his work in all manner of bars, coffeeshops, libraries, andeven the odd gallery (when he's really hard up.)He writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois.You can see more of his work than you'd ever want to at dmitrysamarov.com. Read More Read Less