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TUESDAY INSPIRATION

Thanks Dervis for sharing some good old fashioned Fumetti by Kaucyila Brooke at the LGBTQ art exhibition at the Frost. See all of the Unknown Deviancies: What a Dish! here.

More inspiration comes from over at the Believer with Cabramatta by Matt Huynh, an autobiographical comic about growing up in a community of Vietnam War refugees resettled in Australia’s heroin capital. Initially published in print, you can experience an interactive version here.

FREE RESOURCES

This resource comes from Emma, thanks Emma! It’s a free online follow up to Emily Ferris’s amazing graphic novel, Everything is Monsters.

IN FLOW

This week we were bringing inanimate objects to the front of the story and playing with the stories that can exist around the everyday, mundane things in our life.

Maybe it’s a lamp like Chris Ware or the same room in the style of Richard McGuire in Here. What can objects tell us?

FROM THE MEMOIR GROUP

This week was packed with things in the memoir group, including this exercise from Tom. ‘Your Author Photo’. Tom writes,

“If we imagine this NOW, when we are the MIDDLE of things, we can arrange for that photo to represent who we are, in the middle of the process of making our memoir, in the middle of grappling with the material, in the middle of the middle

I was reminded at SAW of my own author photo for a book I made in 1997 or so, The Sands. That book was the artifact of a battle, between me, myself, and my girlfriend at the time. It was a document of a troubled mind and experience.

My girlfriend took this photo after we had a big fight and it wound up being the photo on the book.

I'm all puffy; I had just been crying and probably screaming, we had tumultuous times. My publisher tried and tried to NOT make that the author photo and said, no, that is absolutely the author photo...

Because it documented the time, and the person who made it.

Right now, what would your author photo look like? Scrambled? Terrified? Furious? Lost?”

COMING UP

Last week we got back on the Draw Jam horse and galloped joyfully through a Thursday night of comics making and games. We’ll be back again at the beginning of December so keep an eye out on social media for the dates.

This Sunday, November 17, SAW invites you to bring your art supplies to Earl Power Park at Pithlachocco/Newnan’s Lake for ART OUT! Part of the Cultural Arts Coalition City of Gainesville 150th Celebration, we’ll be joining a group of local artists for an afternoon of outdoor art making, including an exhibition in the park. If you’re Gainesville, come down and say hi!

We have more workshops coming up in 2020, some are already on the calendar, including the 3-day graphic memoir intensive in February and our visiting artist week-long workshop in March with the enigmatic Jackie Davis. Don’t miss your chance, sign up now!

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Until next time!