Andrew Coltrin is a writer, comics artist, and disabilities advocate when not at the day job as a paraeducator for a large urban school district.

For decades Andrew thought he was just weird, anxious and unexplainably broken until the DSM finally had an update that caught up with lived experience. Andrew was diagnosed as autistic at the age of 37, and informally diagnosed with ADHD by his brother in 2023 (“your DHD is Advanced”).

Andrew’s previous works include the glossary zine A is for Autistic, and the zine Ability: Emerging from the Social Constraints on Neurodivergence and Disability. Andrew has also led staff trainings about neurodiversity and has spoken on panels at the Interdisciplinary Autism Research Festival (2021) and the Tucson Zine Fest (2023).

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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. Come join us!

Please join us and Craig Bostick as he talks about his comics-making process!

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Howdy everyone! We've got new episodes, new series, and new old series up and running again on See SAW this week! 🤠

We want you making comics!

Tom Hart will show you 18 tips you can take with you from our Year Long Program in this free LIVE TRAINING.

Happening occasionally in June and July and maybe August. Click here to sign up for free!

Applications are now open for our 2024-25 Emerging Artists Residency! This residency provides professional development opportunities for up to 8 artists each calendar year and includes access to a shared studio, library and workshop space, artistic mentorship, and publication opportunities.

Sam Henderson is an American cartoonist, writer, storyboard director, and expert on American comedy history.

From Sam:

“Technically, I started doing [mini-comics] at 12 in 1982. When I went to art school in the late eighties I got other students (including a young Tom Hart) into doing them. But I guess for this you'd say 1991. I did a bunch with different titles but did MAGIC WHISTLE as a regular series in 1993. All the while I was starting to sell work professionally and had an alt-weekly strip for a few years, doing MW as a minicomic until 1998 when it became a "real" comic (i.e. a minicomic with a slightly higher circulation and better production values). Most of my 90s minicomics were collected in a book called HUMOR CAN BE FUNNY.”

Our very last episode of The Terrible Anvil (Season One) was recorded this week! With Tom and Jess together in the same room!

We tried to tie a bow around the business of comics by offering ideas on HOW TO KEEP GOING (FOREVER), AKA making your own sustainable comics practice amidst inner/outer turmoil and also remembering to wash the dishes.

A big takeaway from this episode: CELEBRATE SMALL WINS!

Upcoming SAW Pro-Call with Katharine Woodman-Maynard. 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. Come join us!

This week we recorded the penultimate episode of THE TERRIBLE ANVIL, this time discussing scripts, dialogue, and writing for comics!

The words we use and how they are arranged on the page can guide readers' understanding of our comics and influence how they feel about a story and its characters. But how do you pick the right words? How much is too much dialogue? How can you make sure readers understand your text the way you intend?

What are the stories that keep us small? That make us feel unloveable? 🤔 Comics are powerful. Comics can help release us from what keeps us stuck. Explore your Cone of Shame Stories with Cara Gormally in a 4-Week Online Zoom course kicking off July 1st.

Saša Rakezić (born 1963 in Pančevo, Serbia), better known by his pen name Aleksandar Zograf, is a Serbian cartoonist, who was working in the former Yugoslavia in the 80s and 90s.

His was the main and sometimes only cartooning voice that many in the United States knew of from that region, and was very active in American mini-comics and underground publishing. Chris Lanier, on Zograf's website, writes, "Zograf's email dispatches (later collected in a book titled "Bulletins from Serbia," published by Slab-O-Concrete), ... talked about the images on Serbian TV, which mixed together old Yugoslavian war movies, Disney films, and news footage of gypsies taking scrap metal from a downed F-117 NATO plane. He mentioned the email battle of insults which took place after some Italians got hold of the email addresses of American bomber pilots, and forwarded them to Serbian friends living in towns that were slated for attack. He told how a refinery near his home was bombed, and released a cloud of steam that engulfed the area. He and his wife looked out the window of their flat, and "we saw just white fog, as if the whole world had disappeared..."

His many works include books about this time, Life Under Sanctions and Bulletins from Serbia, but he also created many dream comics, notably Psychonaut, and Dream Watcher.

His website is http://www.aleksandarzograf.com/http:...

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