Updates from SAW! Anthologies, Comic Readings, and Saturday Cartoons!
Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups!
The Snake Pit
Our Going in For the Snakes Intensive Course is now in its third week and the work we’ve been seeing is phenomenal. One student went the extra mile last week with Going in for the Snakes’ Guided Dream Story assignment. In this assignment, students are prompted to write a one or two sentence story that they’ll draw as much or as little as they’d like from as well as add in a character, place, encounter, weather, and more from a guided list-making exercise they should have made a little earlier in the session called The Snake Pit. Here we can a comic by student, Molly Reeves.
PRE-ORDER “MEANWHILE"
“Meanwhile represents some of the ambitious works developed during the online Graphic Novel Development Intensive at the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) from June to November, 2020. From responses to course exercises to deliberations on life and death and haircuts in isolation, it brings together the far reaching work of 26 different artists from around the United States and beyond.”
THURSDAY DRAW JAMS!
Throughout the week we always have free, community-run virtual Draw Jams via Zoom run by Barry Sawicki! You can find the links embedded in SAW's Mighty Network, with regular updates about times and themes.
Come draw with us and chat about comics!
NEW! FRIDAY COMICS READING VIA ZOOM!
Emma Jensen recently account that SAW is having a new event on the last Friday of every month!
“SAW’s newest, live, virtual and FREE event: Friday Night Comics Readings.
On the last Friday of the month we bring together four members of our online community to read from their recent or in progress work.
In our inaugural Friday Night Comics Reading event we will hear stories of adventure, terror and existential dread from Barry Sawicki, Beth Trembley, A.j. Delp, and Tom Hart.
Join us 8pm EST via zoom!
This is a FREE live performance, not workshopping. Come ready to be entertained and to experience comics in a different way.
This event will be recorded and posted to our YouTube with captions. There will be unrecorded time at the end of the performance to mingle and catch up to close out the week.
We look forward to seeing you there!”
- Emma Jensen, SAW Instructor and Program Director
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!
SAW’s joined forced with Craig Bostick to bring you some classic cartoon entertainment for the next few Saturday mornings (9AM-11AM EST)!
”Amazing cartoonist and collector, Craig Bostick, will be curating and showing 2 hours of classic cartoons from his collection of over 55,000! Come one come all, bring your kids, your coffee, your good vibes for hours of classic entertainment!”
- Tom Hart
Link to see these cartoons are in our LinkTree, but you can also click here!
FOURTH SESSION OF SAW’S YEAR-LONG PROGRAM
Our online Year-Long Intensive Program students are STILL currently working hard with their peers and mentors on the 4th and final session of the Year-Long Program! The FINAL final assignment will be due by the end of April, so stay tuned to see some amazing final assignments from our 2020—2021 Year-Long Program students in our future Round-Up blog posts!
I WANT TO MAKE AND READ MORE COMICS!
Want to get serious about your own comic creation?
Do you have a story inside you that’s just itching to come out, but want some guidance to help push it out?
Learn more about intensive comics learning with teachers at SAW by checking out SAW’s Year-Long Intensive Program and our Six-Month Graphic Novel Intensive.
Be sure to also check out our Online Courses, since some courses are offered year-round and are always enrolling!
Our Comics Flow Group, for example, is year-round and always enrolling and is SAW's MOST AFFORDABLE course option with access to Monthly Pro-Calls!
And, of course, come see what we’re all up to on SAW's Mighty Network anytime!
Cheers,
Karlo