SAW Local: 4 Week Comics Workshop with Miden Wood Starting April 9, 2024

Mar 12

Come join us in the SAW space for four weeks of comics play with visiting artist, Miden Wood.

4 Week Workshop: Surprise Yourself, Surprise Your Reader with Miden Wood Starting Tuesday April 9 From 7PM to 9PM

Few media hold as much opportunity for surprise as comics. You see a single-panel image, the caption surprises you; you move from one panel to the next, new context surprises you; you turn the page, and, bam! A big, splashy reveal. And, because writing and drawing use different parts of our brains, making comics also presents the unusual opportunity to surprise ourselves.

In this 4-week course, participants will use the relationship between words and images to generate unexpected ideas (to quote one past participant, "I don't know WHERE that came from"), and then turn that same sense of surprise on the reader in multi-panel and multi-page projects. From jokes to jump scares, there are so many opportunities in comics to set an expectation and then subvert it—so let's keep our readers guessing!

Places are limited so sign up now!

About the Instructor

Miden Wood is a writer and illustrator with a background in alternative comics, children's television and sketch comedy. She has worked with Nickelodeon Animation Studios and Sesame Workshop, among others, and has been drawing comics for her Instagram @midenw since 2015.

More details

When: Four weeks starting Tuesday April 9, 2024 from 7PM to 9PM

Where: This is an in person only event in Gainesville, Florida at 1314 S Main St.

Who: This is for adults interested in comics. Class size is limited to 14. Subject to cancellation.

Price: Sliding scale $80-160. Recommended $120. Want to join but need to pay a different amount? Reach out to Emma (emma (at) sequentialartistsworkshop (dot) org) to get signed up.

This program is supported in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Mark Your Calendars

We’ve got more skillshares, workshops and free events coming your way over the next couple of months.

Join SAW local, Carly Shooster, for an informal working group across 8 weeks. And mark your Sundays ‘Occupied’ and get ready to practice drawing in colored pencil, using materials from around the house and how to use different kinds of software for comics.

And of course, we’ll have our regular Draw Jam and Friday Night Comics Watch Party!