Dare to Disappoint is Samanci's graphic coming-of-age memoir published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Her story takes place after the
military coup leading to Turkey's rapid change to
neo-capitalism from 1980 to 2000. The book was translated into six languages. After going through the struggle of obtaining a degree in mathematics to please her father and society, she becomes a
cartoonist and media artist.
Evil Eyes Sea, her second graphic novel, is inspired by semi-autobiographical details. Ece and Meltem are economically struggling engineering students. They witness a freak accident. Ece and Meltem’s investigation into the accident will lead them on a search for truth and treasure hidden under the Bosphorus. Their hopes of solving their personal financial troubles become entangled with a political corruption story.
Evil Eyes Sea was in the Best Graphic Novels of 2024 list of and
The Guardian. won the Cartoonist Studio Prize 2025. Her drawings have appeared in
The New Yorker,
The Wall Street Journal,
Slate Magazine,
The Huffington Post, Airmail,
Guernica and
The Rumpus. Samanci ran
Ordinary Things, an online comics journal with more than 1800
comic-
collage images depicting her daily observations, from 2016 through 2020. == Interactive art installations ==