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SAW is a non-profit comics school and creative community led by award-winning cartoonists and dedicated to helping you find the right path for you and your story through intensive workshops, vibrant community, and free resources.
Upcoming Online Courses
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Drawing for Drama
Learn exciting tricks and tools to make your comics super-charged for drama$229 for 4 weeks on Wednesday Evenings Starts Feb 19
Single Session!
In this single-session workshop, Cara will give a show of samples from her great new book, then she'll create some demonstrations and exercises based on your discussion!Feb 27 - $45
Comics Layouts
Learn creative dynamic layouts with Reimena Yee5 weeks in late March. Dates + times TBD $349
Build Your Own Labyrinth
make creative breakthroughs thanks to the paradoxical power of using creative constraints6 weeks beginning April 5. $389
Our next single session SAWBurst class!
CARA BEAN: Asking Questions and Making Comics!
Cara Bean, whose latest book, Here I Am, I Am Me, is a masterpiece of cartooning. In this single-session workshop, Cara will give a show of samples from that book, then she'll create some demonstrations and exercises based on your discussion! Sign up to get involved in this interactive workshop with a cartooning great!
$45
SAW changes lives.
We’ve heard it over and over again.
See our testimonials below.
Connect Online with Other Artists and Develop Your Skills
Our Exclusive Membership and Mentoring Groups will help you find your own path
SAW Flow + Publish
A vibrant community dedicated to furthering our craft. We publish your work in two anthologies a year. $14.99/month with two-week free trial.
Graphic Memoir + Medicine Working Group
Shine a light on your ideas and memories in this intensive community. Comes with Flow + Publish. $39.99/month or sliding scale with two week free trial.
Diary Comics with Joy
Join celebrated cartoonist E. Joy Mehr for weekly Zoom calls to work on daily diary comics!$34.99 per month
Monthly Comics Study with Hyena Hell
Wednesday mornings at 8 am Eastern with the Hyena deep dive. Need we say more? $150 / month with sliding scale.
Monthly Mentoring with Adventure Time's Derek Ballard
Weekly calls on Sunday. $150/month with sliding scale
Monthly Comics Study with Josh Bayer
Weekly calls with Josh Bayer need we say more? $199 / month with sliding scale.Explore Our Free Online Resources
That's right! Free! Free Workshops! Free Community! Free E-Books!
Our Famous Free Weekly Workshops
on Friday Nights at 7pm Eastern. Scroll below to sign up!
Our Free Resources
Dozens of helpful hints and starters from 15 years of SAW as part of our free community. Join here.
Your Graphic Vision
Free 5-day workout delivered to your inbox. Start here!
Tom Hart's 192-page E-Book
On freeing your creative visual self. Free download!
Storytelling with the Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan
A deep dive into how pictures work in a story. In conjunction with the graphic novel for returning veterans.Sick of Zoom?
These archived video courses are in the vaults waiting for you to take them on your own time…
Gag Cartooning with Emily Flake
6 in depth lessons$99
Inking Basics with Justine Mara Andersen
6 in-depth lessons$99
AI + Comics 2 hour guided interactive session with Susannah Hainley
2 hour recording with interactive instructions and supplemental materials
$19.99
Testimonials
Our students love us!
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SAW changed, & continues to change, my life! When I tell people about the incredible comics community & classes I'm part of at SAW they're sure such an amazing place couldn't exist. I say 'psh! Here's the link!' 😛 I've never felt so supported to improve my craft & make my art. SAW 4 LYFE.
Dante Gabriel Hookey
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This piece feels kind of like a breakthrough to me - the result of the SAW courses I've been taking and finding this great community. You know, the kind of thing you look at a couple of days later and say to yourself, "Did I really make that?"
Robert Danberg
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SAW gave me the confidence to become the artist I wanted to be. I am very grateful for the time I spent learning, trying, studying comics, figuring out my own style, letting myself struggle, succeed and fail, working in many different mediums and learning from all the different mentors and guest speakers. I am so happy Tom started this school. It was so much better than I had ever imagined. I'll forever have fond memories of my time at SAW.
Tamara Jong
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I'm in Portland and I heard there was a great shop here called Books With Pictures. I just walked in and asked and they bought some of my SAW comic!
Kristin Kowal
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SAW was everything I needed… I learned so much in such a short amount of time from some of the most dedicated, compassionate people I've ever met.
Miranda Harmon, Cartoon Network, Scholastic Books
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I F*ing love this school!
Oneita Parker
Showcasing Your Work
We print publications and have an ongoing webportal of your work
Flow Group Anthologies
Year Long Program Anthologies
Graphic Novel Program Anthologies
Draw with us every Friday Night Via zoom!
Every week we host a different professional cartoonist to lead the community through a drawing or storytelling exercise. All are welcome!
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