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Welcome to SAW
Four Ways to Get Your Graphic Novel Done
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Our Free Members Area features hundreds of people sharing their story.
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A Place to Come Together at our SAW Oasis in Gainesville Florida
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Our Free Friday Night Workshops (scroll to bottom to enroll in the next one!) are famous and fun! Join any time or watch the archives!
SAW Changes Lives.
We’ve heard it over and over again.
⬇️ Read some testimonials below ⬇️
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Well on Your Way
A Twelve Week Journey in the Practice of Making Graphic Memoir Starting Sundays in February, 2025$1199
Diary Comics with Joy
Join celebrated cartoonist E. Joy Mehr for weekly Zoom calls to work on daily diary comics!$34.99 per month
We’re known for
…Our Two Featured Programs
Graphic Novel Intensive
Six Months Working in community with our mentors. Get your graphic novel moving forward! Starts June 2025. Click here.$1249
Year-Long Comics Certificate Program
A Year-Long Grad School-Level Program in Comics, 10 Courses, Sept 2025-May 2026 plus summer options. Click here.$3499
In-person programs at SAW
We offer a range of free, sliding scale, and affordable opportunities to engage with comics and creativity at SAW HQ in Gainesville, Florida.
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Draw with us every Friday Night via Zoom!
Every week we host a different professional cartoonist to lead the community through a drawing or storytelling exercise. All are welcome!
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Two new podcasts for modern creators
Pre-internet Mini-Comics Oral History Archives
The Terrible Anvil: How to Create Comics Without Feeling Lousy All The Time
Join us in our commitment to inclusivity
At SAW, we stand with those who have put their lives on the line for generations to fight for equal rights, equal footing, equal safety, and equal expression.
SAW was formed humbly, but from a privilege that we acknowledge, and we commit now to creating equality in our realm, the realm of comics and teaching comics.
In 2020 we expanded our scholarship program to include three full scholarships to our year-long online certificate program for African American students, as well as a number of partial scholarships to cover the cost of tuition.
In 2020-2021 we have donated thousands of dollars to comics projects supporting historically marginalized comics creators, plus $20,000+ to support the tuition costs of SAW programs for LGBTQ+, African American, Black, Indigenous and People of Color, as well as people with disabilities and people experiencing financial hardship.
What Alumni Say About SAW
"SAW was everything I needed…"
"I learned so much in such a short amount of time from some of the most dedicated, compassionate people I've ever met, with wonderful classmates."
-Miranda Harmon, SAW Year-Long Alum. Cartoon Network, Scholastic Books
Read more testimonials below or even more here.
SAW Changes Lives
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Saw isn’t just a good group of artists and writers, it’s a tremendously valuable source of community unlike any I’ve had before.
Liz Y
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SAW opened up a path for me to create in ways that feel more right than any creative expression has in a long time...
Shannon A
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I honestly don't know how I survived making art without SAW. I need SAW so much. It's the antidote to academia 🤣
Dante Gabriel Hookey
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the feedback I've gotten has been transformational. So many aha moments!
Erika J
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Thanks to SAW, I’ve finished the first spread of a graphic memoir I’ve been thinking about for over a decade.
Oliver U
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How I know a week at SAW did its job: I wake up every morning unconcerned with email, burning to draw & write.
Deanna Z.
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"Thank you, Tom for creating a place so many people can come home to".
Barry Sawicki
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I never could have been published without SAW
Carly S. (Carly is now our Assistant Director! :)
Graphic Novelists who have come through SAW
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Kelcey Ervick, The Keeper
Week-Long Workshop
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Beth Trembley, Look Again
Graphic Memoir + Medicine, Graphic Novel Program, Year-Long Program
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Sol Brager, Heavyweight
Graphic Novel Development Intensive
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Cara Gormally, Everything is Fine, I'll just Work Harder
Graphic Memoir and Medicine Group
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Angeli Rafer, The Bailey School Kids
Year Long Certificate Course
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Cara Bean, Here I Am, I Am Me.
Year Long Certificate Course
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R.L. Black, Ethos
Graphic Novel Intensive
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Sally Cantirino, I Walk With Monsters... and more
Year Long Certificate Course
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Miranda Harmon, Mayor Good Boy... and more
Year Long Certificate Course
