Is it a comic or just words and pictures? For those wrestling with, "is my comic a comic or not?” Check this out!

For anyone working on what feels like (or is) a "big idea" and not knowing how to start. OFTEN, a creator will make a small piece, either to get moving, or not realizing it is about to become a bigger thing. This is great, and it's encouraged! See more.

Check out what’s been going on at SAW recently! End of the 2020-2021 Year Long Program, Pro-Call Information, Friday Night Comics Reading, and more!

Do you struggle making a plan for yourself? Try making your OUTLINE. It can be as basic and rough as you’d like, just as long as you START IT!

An insight on the Artistic Process from Student and Graphic Novelist, Layne Glasgow.

See how Instructor Beth Trembley uses cards to brainstorm!

Wise words by Mentor, Elise Dietrich, in our Year-Long Intensive Program about the importance of making your work physical!

Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups! Updates from SAW! Anthologies, Comic Readings, and Saturday Cartoons!

Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups! Snakes, Comic Finals, Expanding Ideas, and more!

SAW Co-Founder, Leela Corman, taught a Believer Mag Friday Night Workshop last week! Here are a few comic examples from students who participated in her workshop! It is also confirmed that Leela will be teaching another SAW course in 2021!

Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups! Instructor News, February Guest Artist, Final Assignments, Draw Jam info, and more!

Come check out what we’ve all been up to at SAW the last few weeks in the Year-Long Program, Storytelling Flow course, Mighty Network, and more!

Fortnightly Wrap-up post of what’s been going on at SAW! We MOVED, Year-Long Students are now in their 3rd session, new course, virtual draw jams, and more!

Even though 2020 has been a whirlpool; landslide; and train wreck all at once, we’re still trying our best to make online learning as interactive as possible.

Once a month, we try to get a guest speaker in to talk comics, publishing, and whatever other professional insight they have about the comic world.

The last few months, students in our exclusive Mighty Network groups had access to Pro-Calls via Zoom with some awesome guest speakers. This year, we were fortunate enough to get these guest speakers!

Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks in the SAW courses and Mighty Network groups!

Thoughts from Justine Andersen:

“So in an attempt to tone down the anxiety level regards the more advanced level of this class, let's look at a few more "cartoony" examples of "caves of wonder," and let's start with one of the very BEST! Maurice Noble's backgrounds for Ali Baba Bunny…

As a tribute to National Native American Heritage Month, and National Native American Heritage Day (which is observed the day after Thanksgiving), we want to shed light on some awesome comics and comic resources portraying Native American cartoonists’ experiences, heritage, and stories. Check it out!

The majority of the public's education and awareness about the transgender community has been informed by the media (films, books, art, etc). A lot of this media, however, overwhelmingly misrepresents and mischaracterizes who trans people really are and the attitude the public should have toward trans individuals.

For Transgender Awareness Week, I want to highlight some Transgender cartoonists who share their experiences, educate about pronouns, or are just openly Transgender cartoonists.

History alone is always evolving, since new things are constantly surfacing about our past, and Comics History in the Western world is no different.

SAW’s Western Comics History course is always evolving as we find new sources to cover about diversity and technique in comics while also reflecting on how far comics have travelled to be where they are in today’s Western world.

Perseverance. It’s hard! Not only with one’s art, but often with other things in life that pile up and may take one away from doing art, or much of anything at all. But is giving up even harder to do? We’d like to share what some of our students have said about this common concern many face.