Our Board
As a 501(c)3 non-profit, SAW has an active board that meets every other month to discuss operations, fundraising, and most importantly, SAW’s Mission.
Professor of History & African Studies at the University of Florida since 2016, Nancy Hunt (she/her) was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 for “Ideation as History.” In 2016, she also received a Fulbright to work in an STS global health laboratory in Paris and on migratory corridors in Niger.
Hunt is one of our longest standing board members, and currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida.
Director
Marc Sobel (he/him) is the three-time Eisner-nominated author of Reading Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics) and Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan Moore (Uncivilized Books) and was the co-editor of The Love and Rockets Companion (Fantagraphics). His work has also appeared in The Comics Journal, Boing Boing and Sequart.
Sobel currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island.
Treasurer
DirectorRob Clough (he/him) is the Executive Editor of Fieldmouse Press, a professional comics critic, freelance editor, and the Programming Director for Small Press Expo (SPX). Clough is also an active instructor in SAW’s yearlong certificate program as a mentor and facilitator, specializing in comics history.
Clough currently resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
DirectorMargaret Galvan (she/her) is Associate Professor of Visual Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her archivally-informed research examines how visual culture operates within social movements and includes an award-winning first book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (2023). She is writing a second book about how communities of LGBTQ+ cartoonists in the 1980s and 1990s innovated comics, which has been supported by fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center and Andy Warhol Foundation. Her publications on comics in social movements can be found in journals like American Literature, Archive Journal, Australian Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, iNKS, Journal of Lesbian Studies, and WSQ. See margaretgalvan.org for more information.
SecretaryBarry Sawicki (he/him) is a long-time SAW in-person participant and comics artist. Sawicki is working on a continual series of short mini-comics based on growing up in New Hampshire with his Mother, Brother, and Father and the antics of family and environmental dynamics therein.
Sawicki currently resides in Gainesville, Florida.
DirectorLisa Klug (she/her) is a comics artist and illustrator with a background in Marketing and Graphic Design. She has published a book with SAW, The Florida Springs Hand-Drawn Coloring Book, and shown her work at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association.
Klug currently resides in Gainesville, Florida.
Board Minutes, newest to oldest
Note: September 20 meeting cancelled due to illness and burnout