NOTES FROM SAW

Here’s the place to check out everything that’s been going on at SAW including what we're learning, reading and drawing.

 

Replay of Making Abstract Comics with Nick Francis Potter!

If you missed our most recent *WE BELIEVE IN COMICS* Friday Night Workshop, catch the replay below! We had a great time with creator Nick Francis Potter who had us making comics without the bounds of reality.

Come check it out, and thanks for coming to the SAW Friday Night Workshops!

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SAW Alum Angeli Rafer's New Book!

Taking the chance to celebrate SAW online Alum, Angeli Rafer! The middle grade book she drew, 'Ghosts Don’t Eat Potato Chips came out this week withScholastic! Woo! Don't forget to let us know about your comics wins in the big, bad world outside the network! We want to hear about it!

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Don't Look Now! SAW's latest comics anthology on sale now! 

“DON'T LOOK NOW BRINGS TOGETHER NEW AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK FROM MEMBERS OF THE SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP'S ONLINE COMMUNITY. INSIDE YOU'LL FIND STORIES OF A GAMESHOW GONE WRONG ALONGSIDE REIMAGINED CLASSICAL POETRY AND SONGS. TURN THE PAGE TO TREATIES ON SELF HELP CULTURE AND PERSONAL STORIES OF PARENTHOOD, AND MORE.”

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DECEMBER SAW STUDENT INTERVIEW: Susan Marks 

Donna Druchunas Returns For Another SAW Student Interview.

SAW STUDENT INTERVIEW: Susan Marks 

usan lives in near Sacramento, California with her husband and two rambunctious cats, and “no snow.” A native midwesterner who has lived in snow for enough in her life, she enjoys the dry heat of northern central California. She retired from a 40+ year career in nursing and making comics is her passion and main retirement activity.

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MICE Recap!

Had a great time seeing some familiar faces around the network this past weekend at the Massachusetts Indie Comics Expo! Thanks again to everyone who stopped by to say hello, and welcome to anyone and everyone new to SAW who signed up after learning more about us!

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Recent success from SAW Artist Resident Alumni, Andi Santagata

Recent success from SAW Artist Resident Alumni, Andi Santagata!

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: FAZBEAR FRIGHTS Graphic Novel Collection #1 is #1 in hot New Releases for Teen and Young Adult Comics and Graphic Novels on Amazon and a Bookseller Favorite. Published by Graphix.

Get your copy wherever books are sold and keep making comics!

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Original Student Success: Sally Cantirino

Sally did the assignments, but she did them her way.

She argued with her instructors, but that was a form of listening.

And she took advantage of every tool around her at SAW, whether it was the pens, brushes, ink, and Bristol board, or our Risograph machines with the weird colors, and the goodwill around the school (and the frequent parties and art shows we would hold) and she made lots of STUFF with what she had, and made herself VISIBLE.

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