NOTES FROM SAW
Here’s the place to check out everything that’s been going on at SAW including what we're learning, reading and drawing.
Join us in SAW FLOW + PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP GROUP
Come join us in our most affordable, online ongoing-community SAW FLOW + PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP GROUP (comes with a two-week free trial) to join in on MONTHLY PRO-CALLS!
What If I Choose The Wrong Story To Tell?
Cartoonist and SAW instructor, Jess Ruliffson, posted a quote from a book she recommends centering on process.
"It's okay if you weren't brave enough or ready to write what you really needed to write. You will be next time." - Kristen Radke. (Quote from Before and After The Book Deal by Courtney Maum, a great book I recommend).
Cartoonist Identity Crisis
A personal comic by SAW member and Alumni, Kevin Curley, regarding process, growth, and identity as a cartoonist.
SAW Friday Night Comics Workshop - Recovering Memory through Comics with Jett Allen!
SAW Friday Night Comics Workshop - Recovering Memory through Comics with Jett Allen!
SAW Friday Night Comics Workshop: Drawing Clothes with Teresa Wong!
SAW Friday Night Comics Workshop - Drawing Clothes with Teresa Wong! Join us this Friday for a FREE Comics Workshop with Teresa Wong. Wong is author of the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression. Her comics have appeared in The Rumpus and Event. She is the 2021–22 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. Don't forget to share your work after the workshop below in the comments, as a post using the "Friday Night Comics" topic, on social media using #fridaynightcomics #sawcomics @comicsworkshop, or all of the above!
Friday Night Workshop: Drawing Dancing with JS Wu!
Join us for our next Friday Night Comics Workshop: Drawing Dancing with JS Wu! About the Event:
Friday January 7th, 2022 @ 7PM EST
PRO-CALL with Casey Nowak!
TWO FOR ONE! We have TWO PRO-CALLS this month! Gain access to this call and future MONTHLY PRO-CALLS by joining a SAW membership or course (i.e. Comics Flow + Publish, Graphic Memoir, Alumni Group, etc.). Explore our ONLINE COURSES link in our bio!
Friday Night Workshop: A Comics Letter to the Past with Natalie Norris
Friday Night Workshop: A Comics Letter to the Past with Natalie Norris! Friday, December 17th @ 7PM EST
Friday Night Workshop: Haiku Comics with David Lasky!
Haiku Comics with David Lasky! (Free and open to everyone)
Friday, December 10th @ 8PM EDT
Invite your friends! This is a free event that's open to the public.
This workshop is for adults but rated PG, and kids and teens are welcome with their parents. Registrants must have a Zoom account and can only access from one device.
Friday Night Workshop with Jen Sandwich!
FINDING YOUR DREAM HOUSE with JEN SANDWICH December 3rd @ 7PM EST! ⠀
Let Ourselves Shine
Let Ourselves Shine! We are organizing ourselves into communities, and sharing our selves, the best we can. See more from this topic in our free online community full of thoughts about making art, why we make art, and more.
Values, Goals and Systems!
Values, Goals and Systems! A recent student in the graphic memoir group mentioned their "maladaptive systems", and how they're doing a memoir about them. And it got me thinking about the hierarchy --which I'm sure I heard somewhere, but I can't remember where-- of values, goals, and systems…
Friday Night Comics Workshop: The Bad Art Hour with Daryl Seitchik!
Friday Night Comics Workshop: The Bad Art Hour with Daryl Seitchik! This workshop will focus on how embracing mistakes in drawing and storytelling can free us up and lead to happy accidents we wouldn't have come to any other way. There will be some drawing warm ups, a short google slides talk, and then an exercise in improvised comics + time to share. It's the class *I* need right now, so I'm hoping other people will benefit too!
EXPLORING IDEAS for Comics with Lawrence Lindell
FREE #FridayNightComics Workshop about EXPLORING IDEAS for Comics with Lawrence Lindell!
Lawrence Lindell is an artist and educator from California that works in many artistic disciplines, including comics, music, illustration, and mixed media. Over the years Lindell’s work has focused on Queerness, Mental Health, and Blackness where the themes often overlap.
What Does Finished Look Like?
What does finished look like to you? Try to create and FINISH something, a panel, a page, a full-mini comic. When does it look FINISHED? How do you know? What does "finished" look like?
SAW and Believer Magazine's Friday Night Comics Workshops!
Did you know SAW is the NEW HOST of Believer Magazine's Friday Night Comics Workshops? Our first workshop is kicking off this Friday, October 22, with Cara Bean! This is a FREE event happening EVERY FRIDAY!
Our Relationship with Comics
I was thinking more about this card duo. There are some more lovely interpretations. This is perhaps how we court our relationship with comics in general.
Sometimes You Gotta
So, I'm doing a memoir comic. Yeah, it's got an anthropomorphic bear and a Gumby-looking guy and the stories aren't 100% "true" but it's a memoir nonetheless..
That is part of the reason I decided to fly home to New Hampshire for a weekend this fall…
Rat in a Cage: Live Comics and Storyboarding Class with Derek Ballard
Work LIVE with Cartoonist and Adventure Time and The Midnight Gospel Storyboard Artist Derek Ballard to challenge your imagination and skills to develop new ideas and stories.
PRE-SALE THE RAINBOW BRIDGE: A SAW ANTHOLOGY
Sooner or later something comes along that fractures our timeline. Upends our sense of simplicity, cohesion, or maybe our whole sense of self. That's when we start grasping for story. This Graphic Memoir Anthology brings together the work of 17 unique storytellers currently developing ambitious personal stories in comics form with The Sequential Artists Workshop.