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Sequential Artists Workshop
Welcome to SAW!
Four Ways to Bring Your Stories to Life
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From single evening sessions to 4-week courses to our renowned Year-Long Certificate Program, we have just the course to get you to the next level.
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Our Free, Members Community features hundreds of people sharing their story.
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Meet fellow creators in real life. Our brick-and-mortar campus is a comics oasis in lush Gainesville, Florida, offering in-person classes, workshops, events, and access to an extensive comics library.
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Our Free, Virtual Friday Night Workshops are run by a different professional cartoonist every week! Join any time or watch the archives.
Upcoming Online Courses
Comics Adaptations with Martha Kuhlman
4-week course focused on adapting literary and other work into comics, with lots of historical examples and exercises. Classes Wednesdays on Zoom. Starts July 1. $249
Utilizing Death in Comics with Lillie Harris
4-week course focused on communicating personal, emotional, and folkloric ideas in comics. Classes on Zoom. Starts July 7. $249
Kids Comics Unite Workshop
We're promoting Kids Comics Unite's 6-week course, How to Launch Your Graphic Novel without Selling Your Soul! Link opens to KCU website.
We’re Known for Our Two Flagship Programs
Our Six-Month 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
Our Year-Long Comics Certificate Program
A Year-Long Grad School-Level Program in Comics, 10 Courses offered September-May, plus summer options. Click here to learn more.$3499
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
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Dana Jeri Maier, Skip to the Fun Parts
Week Long Workshop
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Your Book Here!
We will help you discover and finish your work.
In-Person Programs
We offer a range of free, sliding scale, and affordable opportunities at SAW’s brick-and-mortar 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.
These workshops are FREE and all are welcome! RSVP below. Please consider donating, if you are able!
Podcasts for Modern Comics Creators
Pre-Internet Mini-Comics Oral History Archives
The Terrible Anvil returns with Tom Hart and Jess Ruliffson!
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.
Our Commitment to Inclusivity
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 Alumni. Cartoon Network, Scholastic Books, and more!
“Art school is conceptually cool,
but the Sequential Artists Workshop is an affordable school I back 5000%. If you want a comics education, SAW offers the highest quality classes available without the traditional college price.”
-Michael Sweater, SAW Year-Long Alumni. The Nib, Lion Forge, Silver Sprocket, and others!
Read more testimonials below or even more here.
We’ve heard it again and again:
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! :)
