SAW Pro-Call with Cara Bean April 29
SAW PRO-CALL
Come join us in our most affordable, online ongoing-community COMICS FLOW + PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP GROUP (comes with a two-week free trial) to join in on MONTHLY PRO-CALLS!
We bring in comic professionals from all walks of life to guest speak (virtually) at SAW. These guest speakers give SAW students/members some insight from their personal experiences throughout their comics career and welcome questions at the end of each session.
2 Ways to join
Join Comics Flow + Publish
Get full access to Cara Bean’s Pro Call and our ongoing comics community with prompts, publishing opportunities, and monthly pro sessions.Pay What You Can Drop-In Session starting at $10.The base price is set to $10, but you can add on more before checkout if you’d like to donate extra.
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When, Where, & Who?
—-> When: Tuesday April 29, 2025 @ 2PM Eastern/11AM
—-> Where: Online on Zoom! Please note, registrants can only access from one device. Appropriate standards of speech and imagery will be adhered to. No hate speech, bullying, harassing, will be allowed.
—-> Who: Artists of all levels interested in comics!
Instructor, Cara Bean
about the Guest Speaker
Cara Bean is an obsessive doodler, author and art educator. Here I Am, I Am Me: An Illustrated Guide to Mental Health is her first book for adolescents. She is also the author of Draw 500 Faces and Features, and her work has been featured in Pen America Illustrated, The Women’s Review of Books, and Teaching Arts Magazine. Cara enjoys watching the beginning of complex ideas emerge from the simple act of doodling on paper. She provides interactive workshops on creativity with people of all ages and backgrounds in various public forums.
Cara lives on the Southcoast of Massachusetts with her partner Matt and their dog Raisin.
Why You Should Join Comics Flow + Publish for PRO-calls
We’re thrilled to host Cara Bean for an upcoming Pro-Call. Cara is a powerful educator and cartoonist, best known for her honest, engaging comics about mental health and education—and this is your chance to connect with her directly.
If you’ve never been to a SAW Pro-Call before, here’s the deal: every month, we bring in working professionals from across the comics and publishing world to share their stories, answer your questions, and offer insight into making a sustainable, expressive life in comics. Past guests include folks like Kim Krans, Jamar Nicholas, Matt Madden, Sophie Yanow, Wendy Pini, and so many more.
These sessions are real, relaxed, and rooted in lived experience. But here’s the thing… you could be accessing these calls EVERY MONTH as part of a comics practice support group that’s built to keep you drawing, publishing your work, and connected to a creative community.
Why Just Attend One Call When You Could Join A Creative COMICS-making Ecosystem?
Don’t just drop in—plug in.
You’ll get instant access to the upcoming Pro Call, our archive of past talks, and a whole community ready to cheer you on.
What You’ll HAVE ACCESS TO
✔ All Monthly Pro Calls (not just this one!)
✔ Extensive sequential art resource package
✔ Self-paced learning that actually fits your schedule
✔ Opportunities to be published in SAW anthologies
✔ Ongoing creative accountability + prompts to keep you drawing
✔ Supportive comics community
Comics Flow + Publish is our most affordable and robust online membership where folks are making serious progress on their comics—without burnout, without pressure to be perfect, and without going it alone.
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