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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!
We’ve heard it again and again:
SAW Changes Lives.
Upcoming ONLINE COURSEs
The SAW Year-Long Certificate Course starts Sept 8, 2026
The SAW Single-Year Intensive Has Been The Premier Program For Affordable, Personalized Comics Instruction For Over 10 Years
Join us starting September 2025 to master the tools, find the motivation and harness the power to take your comics-making from Good to Great.
(See below for the free 1 hour sample trainings)
Free SAW Year Long Program Training in one hour
Learn about the SAW Year Long Program and everything we can teach in one hour! Click for timesFrom the Drawing Board to Pitching with Rob Clough
4-Week Package or Individual Seminars Sign-Ups are available! Click hereWe’re known for
…Our Two flagship Programs
Graphic Novel Intensive
Six Months Working in community with our mentors. Get your graphic novel moving forward! Starts June 2025. Click here to learn more.$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 to learn more.$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.
Join us for Friday Night Comics Workshops Every Week on Zoom!
Every week we host a different professional cartoonist to lead the community through a drawing or storytelling exercise. This is a free workshop and all are welcome! RSVP below.
Two podcasts for modern Comics creators
Pre-internet Mini-Comics Oral History Archives
Comics Karma with Tom Hart and Lauren Weinstein
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
Graphic Novelists who have come through SAW