We were thrilled to partner with the Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) for a 3 day online Graphic Medicine Summit between July 18-20, 2025. This summit featured comic readings, workshops and panel discussions, as well as the GMIC Graphic Medicine Awards. Artists, publishers and attendees joined from all around the world. It was an amazing experience and for anyone who missed it, the recordings can be enjoyed right here. 

Sticker your heart out at this collage and zine workshop with Falen Spade at the SAW Studio on September 7, 4-6 PM. Adult, teen, and kid friendly! $10-$20 sliding scale, pay what you can!

Get hands-on and crafty with us at Sequential Artists Workshop for a fun, in-person workshop led by SAW alum Elli Rhodes! On Saturday, September 6th from 4–6 PM, you'll learn how to create your own sketchbook using a variety of materials—perfect for comics, journaling, or daily doodles. Bring your own decorative paper if you'd like to personalize your creation even more!

Calling all comic artists, doodlers, and storytellers! UPCOMING PRO-CALL WITH LEELA CORMAN!

Come join us in our most affordable, online ongoing-community COMICS FLOW + PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP GROUP (comes with a two-week free trial) to join in on MONTHLY PRO-CALLS!

We bring in comic professionals from all walks of life to guest speak (virtually) at SAW. These guest speakers give SAW students/members some insight from their personal experiences throughout their comics career and welcome questions at the end of each session.

SAW + August = a full month of comics-making fun!

SAWgust is a peer-created & peer-led community challenge devoting the entire month of August to making comics. 

Come join for community, a goal, encouragement, and art excitement!

It's free, welcome! SIGN UP HERE:

https://forms.gle/nYRqrx6Zi9A69TP97

The Summer Your Project Moves Forward

Are you working on a bigger project that needs time, focus, and community support to reach the finish line? Join us for our Comics Working Group this Summer!

Each week, we'll come together to share progress on our current and upcoming projects, check in on goals, and, most importantly, work side by side. This space is for projects that unfold over time—graphic novels, zine series, large paintings, novels, and more. Our goal is simple: make steady progress together.

Artists of all levels welcome!

Call for Artist!

Calling all comic artists, doodlers, and storytellers! UPCOMING PRO-CALL WITH CRAIG THOMPSON!

Come join us in our most affordable, online ongoing-community COMICS FLOW + PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP GROUP (comes with a two-week free trial) to join in on MONTHLY PRO-CALLS!

We bring in comic professionals from all walks of life to guest speak (virtually) at SAW. These guest speakers give SAW students/members some insight from their personal experiences throughout their comics career and welcome questions at the end of each session.

4 Weekly Zoom talks with Q+A taking you from story idea to pitching your book starting July 8.

Level Up Your Comics This Summer!

Our annual Teen Summer Camp at SAW is back—two dynamic weeks designed to fuel artistic growth through the world of comics! Whether your teen is an aspiring cartoonist or just loves to draw and tell stories, this immersive, hands-on camp is the perfect place for them explore their voice and expand their narrative skills.

Join us for one week or both—no prior experience necessary.

Join us for a messy and fun collage zine workshop in support of reproductive justice! The incomparable Mara McCormick of collage duo Florida Pest (@floridapest), will be our facilitator, guiding you through the chaotic and playful experience of creating your own collage zine. Learn to choose materials, let your intuition lead the way, and let go of perfectionism to create a visually interesting narrative - all while supporting abortion access and building community. No experience necessary!

Calling all comic artists, doodlers, and storytellers! UPCOMING PRO-CALL WITH CARA GORMALLY!

Come join us in our most affordable, online ongoing-community COMICS FLOW + PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP GROUP (comes with a two-week free trial) to join in on MONTHLY PRO-CALLS!

We bring in comic professionals from all walks of life to guest speak (virtually) at SAW. These guest speakers give SAW students/members some insight from their personal experiences throughout their comics career and welcome questions at the end of each session.

Hi, welcome! This is Tom Hart. We're really honored to feature Craig Thompson.

Craig is arguably one of the best cartoonists of his generation. In addition to having sold tons of books, he's also got a beautiful way with words and pictures and has garnered the appreciation of hundreds and thousands of people, including a lot of artists.

So, it's wonderful to sit down with him, and it was really kind of a shock to hear him name me as one of his early inspirations; that's very kind. And Craig also expands the web by mentioning some other people at the end of this interview that we should be contacting.

But more importantly, I want to talk about how that web expanded, because we went to a little, not only out of the way, but sort of secret cafe in Providence, Rhode Island to film this interview. It's surrounded by artist lofts, and we hadn't even started yet, and we're filming outside, and a woman, Claire, came up to us and we had her ask the questions because she was interested in what we were doing.

By the tail end of this interview, and especially after the interview, we realized that Claire was deeply interested in these values. So much so that she was probably living them more than Craig or I. She and her partner, Femi, who also appeared for a few moments in the interview, have an art studio nearby where they host events and have art shows, and Claire, for instance, hates Instagram had some things to say about the soothing scrolling that is hurting her generation.

And way more interestingly., the way you find out about events in their art studio is, you have to call their landline, which is a rotary phone. And so we were really happy to connect with artists almost half our age, who really believed in the value of face-to-face contact and walking across town or walking from town to town, and reaching out the slow way, and the the mindful way and also the cumbersome way.

We were really honored to to be speaking with them. It's in the interest of connecting all these generations that these oral histories have been started and preserved.

So, I want to thank Claire and Femi, and I also want to thank Craig for sitting down with us, and thank what's left of the really interesting parts of Providence, Rhode Island for being there, and the secret cafe and everything else have a listen. Thanks!

The Summer Your Project Moves Forward

Are you working on a bigger project that needs time, focus, and community support to reach the finish line? Join us for our Comics Working Group this Summer!

Each week, we'll come together to share progress on our current and upcoming projects, check in on goals, and, most importantly, work side by side. This space is for projects that unfold over time—graphic novels, zine series, large paintings, novels, and more. Our goal is simple: make steady progress together.

Artists of all levels welcome!

SAW spoke with YLP Alum and FLOW + Publish member Dusty McGowan about his experiences with comics, his creative process, and his unique perspective as a psychotherapist cartoonist.

Dusty was also a guest on the most recent episode of SAW’s Comics Karma podcast with hosts Tom Hart and Lauren Weinstein. Check out the episode!

DIVE INTO WATERCOLOR FOR COMICS!

In this class, participants will learn watercolor techniques including wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, dry brush, and more.

There will be a penciled comic available for folks to paint, so no drawing is required, but participants are welcome to bring their own drawings to paint!

Come play with watercolor and explore how it can bring your comics to life!

Artists of all levels welcome!

Calling all comic artists, doodlers, and storytellers! UPCOMING PRO-CALL WITH CARA BEAN!

Come join us in our most affordable, online ongoing-community COMICS FLOW + PUBLISH MEMBERSHIP GROUP (comes with a two-week free trial) to join in on MONTHLY PRO-CALLS!

We bring in comic professionals from all walks of life to guest speak (virtually) at SAW. These guest speakers give SAW students/members some insight from their personal experiences throughout their comics career and welcome questions at the end of each session.

On Saturday, April 26, 2025, UF’s Graduate Comics Organization will be hosting its 21st annual comics event, “Folding and Unfolding: A GCO Symposium on Zines and Small Press Comics” in Gainesville, Florida. This event is free and open to the public and will be hosted at Gainesville’s own grassroots comics school, the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), which is located just south of Downtown/Depot Park at 1314 S Main Street #2 Gainesville, FL 32601.