SAW PRO-CALL
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.
2 Ways To Join
Join Comics Flow + Publish
Get full access to this Pro-Call and our ongoing comics community with prompts, publishing opportunities, and monthly pro sessions.Pay What You Can Drop-In Session starting at $10.The suggested price is $20 and you can add on more before checkout if you’d like to donate extra.
Add-On multiple amounts if you’d like to donate extra to help us support our mission! Total calculated at checkout.
When, Where, & Who?
✹ When: Wednesday November 18 , 2026 @ 2PM Eastern/11AM Pacific
✹ Where: Online on Zoom! Appropriate standards of speech and imagery will be adhered to. No hate speech, bullying, harassing, will be allowed.
✹ Who Can Join: Artists of all levels interested in comics!
About Shay Mirk
Shay Mirk (they/she) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher. Shay is the author of Guantanamo Voices (Abrams, 2020), an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison, which Kirkus called “extraordinary… an eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America’s worst trespasses.” Shay is also a zine-maker and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The Nib, The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR. Their book on the craft of making nonfiction comics, Creating Nonfiction Comics: A Guide to Graphic Narrative (co-written with Eleri Harris), will debut from Abrams ComicsArts in November 2025. In 2023, they became a volunteer editor of the collective Cartoonists for Palestine and are helping manage the publication of collective’s print anthology. In 2024, Shay launched the nonfiction comics press Crucial Comix, with collaborator Audra McNamee, where they teach classes editing and memoir comics.
Why Just Attend One Call When You Could Join A Creative Comics-Making Ecosystem?
Don’t just drop in!
Join our Comics Flow + Publish Membership and you’ll get instant access to the upcoming Pro-Call, our archive of past talks, exclusive workshops and resources, and a whole community ready to cheer you on!
Why You Should Join Comics Flow + Publish for Pro-Calls
If you’ve never been to a SAW Pro-Call before, here’s the deal: every month, we bring in working professionals from across the comics and publishing world to share their stories, answer your questions, and offer insight into making a sustainable, expressive life in comics. Past guests include folks like Kim Krans, Jamar Nicholas, Matt Madden, Sophie Yanow, Wendy Pini, and so many more.
These sessions are real, relaxed, and rooted in lived experience. But here’s the thing… you could be accessing these calls EVERY MONTH as part of a comics practice support group that’s built to keep you drawing, publishing your work, and connected to a creative community.
What You’ll Have Access to
✔ All Monthly Pro-Calls (not just this one!)
✔ Extensive sequential art resource package
✔ Self-paced learning that actually fits your schedule
✔ Opportunities to be published in SAW anthologies
✔ Ongoing creative accountability + prompts to keep you drawing
✔ Supportive comics community
Comics Flow + Publish is our most affordable and robust online membership where folks are making serious progress on their comics!
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