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SAW Pro-Call with Georgia Webber on Career and Health.

Georgia Webber is a comics artist, editor, and facilitator living in Newfoundland. She is entirely occupied by the intersection of health and art, making music, comics, and facilitating courses from this point of fascination.  

The Pain of Who We Aren't

"Take a look at yourself in the mirror.

Do you look like you? Do you look like you want to? Hopefully you do, but most of us don't. Most of us feel STUCK with the person in the mirror. But I also know that if you feel you want to be someone else, or somewhere else, THAT PAIN is exactly what you should be writing and drawing about...

In fact, I will go to the mat about this: any story worth a damn is about someone who is somewhere they don't want to be.

I'm going to say that again: Every good story is about someone who is not who they want to be, but who pushes on anyway…

We had a great time with Josh Bayer @joshmbayer (Instagram account) drawing characters with objects, learning and using shading techniques that amplify our comics, and bringing the holiday season into it, we talked about making a stories of objects we exchange, Josh mentioned that a good way to start a comic plot is to make a list i.e. objects we exchange, things we struggle to buy, things we want to buy, disappointing gifts, disappointing reactions, etc.

A couple weeks ago, we tried our hands at DRAWING LIKE A FILMMAKER with David Lasky, but can you believe it's been over a year since we made HAIKU COMICS (with David Lasky)?

We learned about how newspaper comic stripes with silent panels can be similar to how haikus are formatted,

we learned how comic stripes could also work with haikus incorporated in them, 

and we learned how we can focus on the little moments in comics using this exercise.

We had a great time with Yasmeen Abedifard @yasmeen.abedi expressing the self through characters. We learned how cartoon characters have a unique way of evoking empathy and about mirroring emotions in the characters we create. We made some great 1 page comics with the complex characters we created in the workshop!

If you missed it, here's the replay!

Donna Druchunas Returns For Another SAW Student Interview.

SAW STUDENT INTERVIEW: Susan Marks 

usan lives in near Sacramento, California with her husband and two rambunctious cats, and “no snow.” A native midwesterner who has lived in snow for enough in her life, she enjoys the dry heat of northern central California. She retired from a 40+ year career in nursing and making comics is her passion and main retirement activity.

We had an amazing time with Kristen Radtke, who had us drawing diagrams about secrets.

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Our next Monthly-Pro Call is with Tom Devlin of Drawn & Quarterly!

Little photo dump below from SHORT RUN Comics Festival!

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!

Find SAW at table A:3 at Short Run Seattle this weekend, November 5th!

Our Assistant Executive Director, Emma Jensen, will be running SAW's table! Come by to learn more about SAW or to just say hello.

Had a great time seeing some familiar faces around the network this past weekend at the Massachusetts Indie Comics Expo! Thanks again to everyone who stopped by to say hello, and welcome to anyone and everyone new to SAW who signed up after learning more about us!

Find SAW's table at the Massachusetts Indie Comics Expo (MICE) this weekend, table 59!

This October, we have TWO Pro-Calls and we're inviting everyone to this one.

SAW Pro-Call with Wendy Pini! | Monday October 17, 2022 @ 2PM EASTERN TIME

We’ve started a podcast! We're doing a soft launch of our Friday Night Comics Video Podcasts on Spotify. This is a new way to catch up, rewatch, or listen to archived Friday Night Comics Workshops.

Find us at SPX this weekend in Maryland! Table E14. We’re also sponsoring four workshops at SPX: 9/17 Making Diary Comics with Ellen O’Grady; Drawing Cuteness with Shauna J. Grant; Bodies, Birth and Death, a Comics Workshop With Tom Hart; and Make A Comics Love Letter to TV With Anna Sellheim.

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.

This month, we’re bringing you something a little bit different for our monthly report: a summary of the SAW 2021 online survey that we sent out to members in August of this year. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming in the new year. In the meantime, keep an eye out on our social media for announcements about some upcoming projects we’re excited to share with you all!