Lark Pien is a cartoonist, colorist, and author-illustrator of three children's books, and over thirty short stories for comic anthologies and pamphlet style comics. A contributor to the young readers' SundayHaha.com and Illustoria magazine, Lark is best known for her characters Long Tail Kitty, Mr. Elephanter. Her colorwork appears in bestsellers Sunny Side Up, Stargazing, Dragon Hoops, Invisible, and American Born Chinese. She's colored for many YA authors including Gene Luen Yang, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, and Jennifer & Matthew Holm. Lark received a Kim Yale award, a Harvey, and is a minigrant recipient of Koyama Provides.

Lark's favorite way to make comics is with pencil and paper. She likes that a story can be told within a single panel and simultaneously in many panels together. In art, she gravitates towards nonhomogenous environments, prefering to explore complexities of relational objects and their meanings.

Her zine corner on Patreon features the less abstract Immortal Chicken, journaling her travels, animal encounters, food recipes, relationships with fellow chickens, and practice in the internal martial arts. @larkpien

Join us in the SAW Library for a peaceful afternoon of reading.

Browse our comics library, replace your book with an index card, and put it back when the session ends. 🙂

Hot water will be available so bring a mug and your favorite tea for an extra cozy vibe!

Robyn Chapman edits, publishes, and (sometimes) draws comics. She is the proprietor of the micro-press Paper Rocket Minicomics, and she has held many different jobs in comics. She spent five years at the Center for Cartoon Studies, initially as their first fellow and later as a program coordinator and faculty member. During her time at CCS, she earned her MFA in cartooning, having previously earned her BFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She began her editing career at Graphic Universe, the graphic novel imprint of Lerner Publishing Group. Since 2016, she has been an editor at First Second. She also teaches professional practices in comics at the School of Visual Arts.

She was the editor/publisher of the Tiny Report (a zine about comic micro-presses) and the author of Drawing Comics Lab (Quarry Books). In the spring of 2016, she debuted Twin Bed, her first solo comic in a long, long time.

In 2021 she edited and co-published (with Silver Sprocket) the nonfiction comics anthology American Cult.

SAW PRO-CALL with Bob Sikoryak September 29

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.

Linocut Workshop September 19, 2026 at the Sequential Artists Workshop

SAW PRO-CALL with Briana Loewinsohn September 16

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.

Jodie Corney is a UK based creative whose comic work includes the ten issue length run of her original series Pretend Best Friend. She made Pretend Best Friend in the 1990s at the ages of 16 and 17. The comic, made with basic materials and reproduced on a photocopier became internationally popular, scoring her an interview with Russell Senior of the band Pulp and completely selling out!

Currently her creative work includes crochet projects and illustrating album covers for her partner’s music.

Robyn Adams has been a working artist for over 25 years. While she predominately works in the animation industry, where she specializes in color design, background painting, and working in a wide variety of styles, she has also independently made her own comic books. 

During the early 90s she created the three-issue comic series Homozone 5, inspired by her own coming out and involvement with the drag community at the time. She has also contributed to multiple comic anthologies and is currently working on a graphic novel adaptation of Doris Fish’s cult sci-fi movie Vegas in Space. 

Robyn is also the creative director for the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive and is even a fan of 1970s action figures and founded The Mego Museum, a website for fans of the toys! Currently she resides in Oakland, California, where she provides creative services for San Francisco Pride events. 

Jesse Reklaw is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, author of six graphic novels, a musician, and a web developer. An early adopter of online publishing, his dream-based Slow Wave strip was one of the first dozen web comics, appearing online in 1995, and later nationally syndicated in alternative newsweeklies for seventeen years.

Jesse began drawing comics during the do-it-yourself (DIY) frenzy of the late ’80s and ’90s, and has designed and self-published over 75 books, comics and zines. He co-founded the small-press distribution company Global Hobo, administrated the nonprofit Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration, and has led workshops and taught cartooning at many institutions and events.

Join us on the first Thursday of each month for this sustainable, messy drop-in class to junk journal with Maria.

Sliding Scale $15-$30 per session. Select Add-Ons if you can donate extra. Your donation helps support us to run this workshop each month! Thank you!

📅 First Thursday of the Month, 6PM - 8PM

📍 In-Person 1314 S Main St Gainesville, FL

👥 Anyone into art! Class size limited to 20. Subject to cancellation.

A Creative Space for Young Artists!

Do you have a teen who loves comics? Whether they’re just getting started or already deep into creating their own stories, Comics for Teens is the perfect place for them to develop their skills, meet fellow young artists, and have fun!

This ongoing group is designed for teens ages 11-16 who want to practice comics regularly in a supportive environment. Each session offers a chance to learn, create, and share their work while receiving guidance from experienced instructors.

Michael Comeau moved to Toronto in 1995 for art school. He began making zines, printing posters, authoring comics and playing in bands.

Currently he gardens and has a comic series "Slomeauzine". His video work can be found @comeauslomeau on instagram and @slomeau on youtube

John Kelly is the editor and publisher of Dummy. He is a writer who has contributed regularly to the Comics Journal since 1990 and is the former Executive Director of The ToonSeum, Pittsburgh's now closed museum of comics and cartoon art.

Make a comics website July 25 at SAW!

The Fall 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.

Adult Artists of all levels welcome!

Fruit Crafts Party Saturday July 18, 2026 at SAW

Seena Shamsavari aka Sina Sparrow is a Hastings-based illustrator, comic book artist and DJ. His work explores themes of popular culture, movie icons, camp , cult B-Movies, pop idols, gay culture, comic book heroes, the sacred and profane.

Seena’s portfolio includes album sleeves, packaging, visual merchandising, editorial illustrations, T-shirts as well as an extensive range of self-published comic books.

Clients include: Bella Freud, Liberty London, Fanpages (Bay Garnett) and Concept Store-Y Soho. Seena's T-Shirts have been stocked in various boutiques across the UK, Berlin, and Japan.

Trevor Alixopulos' comics began from an obscure place, employing idiosyncratic characters and settings that resonate with some unusual significance to him, and the journey of the work is in how they become knowable. He starts a strip hoping to search and inhabit unfamiliar perspectives.

He tries to create comics that are superficially straightforward cartoons, with a smooth read, that nonetheless on completion leave the reader a bit confounded, with a different story told by the sum than by the parts. The language of the cartoon makes a deal with the reader as to how it will be "read" and what it represents, with terms always subject to change.

His limited edition collection of nightlife comics, Lipstick Traces was listed among the top comics of 2021 by the contributors of The Comics Journal and his graphic novel The Hot Breath of War was nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2008 Ignatz Awards and featured on tcj.com's "Top 100 Comics of the Decade."