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Dave Ortega is a cartoonist and educator living near Boston who teaches at Lesley University. His graphic novel Días de Consuelo, about the early life of his grandmother who was born during the Mexican Revolution, was selected by Society of Illustrators for their Illustration 65 annual.

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Melanie Gillman is a SAW Alumni and American queer non-binary cartoonist, illustrator, and lecturer, specializing in LGBTQ comics for Young Adult readers like Other Ever Afters (a collection of QUEER FAIRY TALES), Who Was a Daring Pioneer of the Skies?, and their webcomic As the Crow Flies.

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Tom Hart is the New York Times Bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop. He was an early recipient of a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists, and has been on many best-of lists in the Comics Journal and other comix publications. Tom has been called “one of the great underrated cartoonists of our time” by Eddie Campbell and “one of my favorite cartoonists of the dec...

Bianca Stone is a writer and visual artist. She was born and raised in Vermont and moved to New York City where she received her MFA from NYU in 2009. She is the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House, 2014), Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, (Pleiades, 2016), The Mobius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018) and the children’s book A Little Called Pauline, with text by Gertrude Stein. 

She collaborated with Anne Carso...

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

Georgia is best known for her debut graphic memoir, Dumb: Living Without a Voice (Fantagraphics 2018), the chronicle of her severe vocal injury and sustained vocal condition which causes her pain from us...

"Using simple map-drawing exercises, we will navigate our memories and find treasures to prompt creative writing or comic-making."

MJ Robinson is an author-illustrator, educator, and community organizer encouraging creative play and art-making in movements for social justice!

MJ is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns. Their activism supports prison abolition, LGBTQIA2S+ rights, and racial and environmental justice in ...

Ellen O’Grady (she/they) lives in Durham, North Carolina. They are an artist and activist with recent work in Scalawag magazine and SOLRAD.  https://linktr.ee/ellenogrady

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Jett Allen is a nonbinary/trans cartoonist, illustrator, and writer living in Los Angeles, California. Their comics, visual essays, and illustrations have been published by The New Yorker (online), NYU Press, Spiralbound, Granta and more. They are currently drawing a visual column called “Trans Classic Movies” for Into and working on a graphic memoir about identity, family secrets, and the history of melodrama. https://jettall...

Teresa Wong is author of the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression. Her comics have appeared in The Rumpusand Event. She is the 2021–22 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

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Welcome as JS Wu leads us in a free workshop in drawing movement and dance!

JS Wu is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a dissertation titled "Inbetween Bodies: The Marked and Unmarked Subjects of Contemporary Animation."  She received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in English and Art Practice and minored in Creative Writing. In addition to her scholarly work...

SAW Friday Night Comics: Haiku Comics with David Lasky

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The Sequential Artists Wor...

"One of my favorite things to draw and lose myself in were maps and imaginary house plans. We'll draw crazy buildings that are like your ideal home that could be as big and weird as you can imagine. We'll label each room and put in all these details and imagine stories to go inside." - Jen Sandwich 

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Self-care comics & grounding practice workshop with Nicole Georges!

Develop a daily practice of combining comics and self-care by charting your emotions and drawing yourself into joyful and soothing situations with Nicole J. Georges.

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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!

Daryl is a cartoonist and teacher currently living in Vermont. She gr...

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.

Lindell has been self publishing his work for nearly a decade leading to the creation of his graphic memoir ‘From Truth With Truth’ which was nominated for the Be...

Join cartoonist Cara Bean in this hands-on, visual thinking, mindfulness workshop. 

Cara walks participants through a series of creative exercises intended to lessen anxiety, build confidence, and grow creativity. 

Together, we’ll go over the basics of communicative drawing and develop the skills needed to doodle as a form of play and problem-solving. 

Our session concludes with the creatio...