Writing the Declaration #1 (1776)📜 John Adams Taking us into the room where it happened...

COMMON CAUSE (1774+)🔥 More Acts before the Revolution More PRE-WAR LAWS & reactions to 'em...

Bradford Sketchbook Talking community in an old 18th-century town center...

CREATIVITY & HISTORY 🎞️ Ken Burns Interview Comics adaptation of an interview at Concord, NH...

BIG IDEAS @ Community Conversations… Each conversation begins with a few open-ended questions...

DRAW HERE NOW: Lincoln’s Birthplace (in… Massachusetts?) UNHIDDEN HISTORY: of Opium Wars & abolitionists in a small New England town...

COMICS CAMP 2026 🏖️ Beach Party Poster! We're getting ready for another summer full of CRAZY NEW COMICS and SKETCH-TACULAR SKETCHBOOKS... Join COMICS CAMP @ the Patreon... >>

Sampson Battis:  Revolutionary War Veteran Revolution, fiddles, & deep connections to native roots...

“What do we mean by ‘THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION’?” ❤️‍🔥 John Adams (1818) Effecting REAL change in the "Minds & Hearts of the People"...

REVOLUTION @ Dover, NH 🌟 “Country of Immigrants” New immigrants talking American Revolution, 1776... / May 2026

MYSTERY ISLAND! #2 🌙 Night on Mystery Island DRAWN w/ MY 2nd GRADE ARTIST CREW! The bunnies spend their first night under the stars... How will they ever escape the island?!

COMMON CAUSE (1763-1773)☕ Acts of Parliament before the Revolution An 8-page mini to help keep all these PRE-WAR LAWS in order...

REVOLUTION @ Exeter, NH 🌟 “Creation Myths” Drawing common purpose @ a BIG WATCH event / April 2026

“This Tea Is Too Cheap!” #2 🫖 (Boston Tea Party / 16 Dec. 1773) Hot-takes from Abigail + Sam + John Adams & the Town of Boston...

Froghorn 📜 (New Year Doodle) Group pic from the sonorous shores of a bold new age...

“Endless Invasion” 📜 (January 2026 Doodle) Diary-doodling along with the chaos of life... (WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?)

“The King of America” 👑Thomas Paine / Common Sense (1776) It's early 1776, & Tom Paine has an idea for a new civic holiday...

“This Tea Is Too Cheap” #1 🫖 (Boston Tea Party / 1767-1773) Revolution's brewing in colonial Boston...

Picnic Along the River 🧺 (Doodle) Drawn on the go, in uncertain times...

“Objects of the most Stupendous Magnitude…” 🌠 John Adams (9 June 1776) Writing from the Continental Congress, on the eve of the Declaration of Independence!

“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776) Revolution as civic duty...

REVOLUTION @ Walpole, NH 🌟 “These Truths” Drawing @ a BIG WATCH event / 7 April 2026

JUDE HALL # 3: Jude Hall’s Grandsons in the Civil War! Drawn in memory of the many generations of Halls who lived in Exeter & served their community & country...

“From a Small Spark” 🔥 Thomas Paine (1792) "...a flame has arisen, not to be extinguished." ~ The Rights of Man (Part the 2nd)

D.I.Y. Declaration of Independence 📖✏️ (POSTER EDITION) What does this REVOLUTIONARY SENTENCE look like when YOU draw it out...?

REVOLUTION @ Hopkinton, NH 🌟 “Origin Stories” Drawing @ a BIG WATCH event / 31 March 2026

i2i Symposium 2026 "Reweaving the Social Fabric of our Communities"

Painting at Bull Run 💣🎨 (21 July, 1861) An artist aims to paint a patriotic masterpiece... (Drawn w/ my 7th grade Civil War comics students!)

Freeman Colby Vol. 4 Poster Gallery Sample poster art & sources from the 1864 adventures of Freeman Colby & Co. ...

New Hampshire Sketchbook🆕 NEW BOOK OUT 26 MARCH 2026! // What happens when neighbors & strangers gather for wide-ranging conversations about the big ideas that shape our lives? Cartoonist Marek Bennett live-draws six New Hampshire communities on a mission to find out...

CONSTITUTION COMICS #1: “New, Strange & Terrible Doctrines” 💭 (w/ Prof. Updike-Schulzke) "For the People [are] the Source of all Authority..." ~ John Adams!

NATIONAL & STATE CONSTITUTIONS: What’s the Difference? 📜 (w/ Prof. Williams) "50% of Americans don't even realize they have a STATE constitution!"

The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Vol. 4 (1864) ⭐VOL. 4 LAUNCH DAY!⭐ JUNE-JULY, 1864: Freeman Colby rejoins his regiment for one last march on Richmond, but there's no end in sight to the wider struggle…

Mad King Pig’s 3-Cup Monte! There he goes again, trying to distract us -- Keep your eye on those cups!

Join us next Thursday 12 March @ 6:30pm at @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social for THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF FREEMAN COLBY VOL. 4 = Reading & signing the new book! Event info: gibsonsbookstore.com/event/freema... / #FreemanColby #FreemanColbyVol4 #YAGraphicNovels #HistoryComics #ComicsWorkshop #NHHistory

NH State COMICStitution 📜✏️ 1776 Preamble "WE, the members of the CONGRESS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE..." ~ Drawn from the world's first modern constitution!

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📖🔍👀 SNEAK PEEKS @ THE NEW BOOK! Freeman Colby Vol. 4 / p.34-42 📖 North Anna River (May-June 1864)

Revolution Sketchbook 📖 INTRO Announcing a year-long statewide project! Drawing as many places & stories as possible... 💬

Elisha Haynes: Revolutionary War Veteran An aged vet's pension app. provides a peek into his service & later life...

Freeman Colby Vol. 4 PREVIEW 📖 p.14-21: Cold Harbor (May 1864) 🔎Jane Tyler's PROLOGUE continues w/ the Battle of Cold Harbor...

The Big Speech 📜 (Doodle) Once again, the whole community gathers together to hear the latest... Hey! Quiet please! Down in front!!

1776 CRIMES OF THE KING (Declaration of Independence) Drawn from the "List of Grievances" in the US Declaration of Independence...

Freeman Colby Vol. 4 📖 p.1-13 🔎Preview pages from the new book! Featuring Jane Tyler's PROLOGUE...

Ona Judge ⛵(Portsmouth, 1796) A young woman dodges the president's slave-catchers...

Main Street Is Full of People open.substack.com/pub/marekben...

INKING: Battle of the Crater 💥 (30 July 1864) Inking a 2-page spread from Freeman Colby Vol. 4...

The Bill of Rights 📜 Quick Reference Guide A super-quick overview of Amendments #1-10 to the US Constitution... For use as a poster AND/OR a pocket reference guide!

Know Your FIRST AMENDMENT Rights 📜 The Mini-Comic A little legal mashup mini to keep in your pocket out there...

Thomas Sims ⛓️‍💥 (Boston, 1851) US Law in chains...