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!

We review Lili Sohn’s translated Vagina Love: An Owners Manual, yours to read in English through Street Noise Books in February 2022.

Join us for our next Friday Night Comics Workshop: Drawing Dancing with JS Wu! About the Event:

Friday January 7th, 2022 @ 7PM EST

Tom has put together some of his reflections on the year that was and shared them across our many networks. Please read for yourself, and accept these good wishes for the end of 2021 and the new year to come! Happy comics making to you all!

A great post from Tom Hart on the conversation about art, and towards posterity.

Towards recognition.

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, December 17th @ 7PM EST

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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.

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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!

FINDING YOUR DREAM HOUSE with JEN SANDWICH December 3rd @ 7PM EST! ⠀

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! 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…

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Our next Friday Night Comics Workshop is with Nicole J. Georges! Develop a daily practice of combining comics and self-care by charting your emotions and drawing yourself into joyful and soothing situations.

As we speed through the beginning of November, here’s a belated October report from SAW headquarters here in Gainesville.