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"Ashanti Fortson is an award-winning cartoonist, an illustrator, a comics editor, and an educator with a deep interest in difficult emotions, quiet moments, and the rifts and connections between human beings. Their work explores transience and reflection through a tenderhearted lens, and their love for color is a thread that runs through everything they make. A good comic essay will always brighten their day. Ashanti lives in Baltimore with their spouse, their cat Miss Cheese, and at least three pet rats at all times. They're the spider-saving sort."

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The Sequential Artists Workshop

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Dave Ortega is a cartoonist and educator living near Boston who teaches at Lesley University. His graphic novel Días de Consuelo, about the early life of his grandmother who was born during the Mexican Revolution, was selected by Society of Illustrators for their Illustration 65 annual.

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The Sequential Artists Workshop

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Melanie Gillman is a SAW Alumni and American queer non-binary cartoonist, illustrator, and lecturer, specializing in LGBTQ comics for Young Adult readers like Other Ever Afters (a collection of QUEER FAIRY TALES), Who Was a Daring Pioneer of the Skies?, and their webcomic As the Crow Flies.

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Tom Hart is the New York Times Bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop. He was an early recipient of a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists, and has been on many best-of lists in the Comics Journal and other comix publications. Tom has been called “one of the great underrated cartoonists of our time” by Eddie Campbell and “one of my favorite cartoonists of the decade” by Scott McCloud. Before founding SAW, Tom was a core instructor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC for 10 years. Tom’s former students include award winning-cartoonists Dash Shaw, Sarah Glidden, Box Brown, Leslie Stein, and many others.

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Bianca Stone is a writer and visual artist. She was born and raised in Vermont and moved to New York City where she received her MFA from NYU in 2009. She is the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House, 2014), Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, (Pleiades, 2016), The Mobius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018) and the children’s book A Little Called Pauline, with text by Gertrude Stein. 

She collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated Antigonick, a book of Carson’s translation of Antigone (New Directions, 2012). Her poems, poetry comics, and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines including The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review and many others. She has returned to Vermont with her husband and collaborator, the poet Ben Pease, where she is director of programs for The Ruth Stone House, a literary nonprofit artist residency, letterpress studio and community poetry center.

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Teresa Wong is author of the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression. Her comics have appeared in The Rumpusand Event. She is the 2021–22 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

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Welcome as JS Wu leads us in a free workshop in drawing movement and dance!

JS Wu is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a dissertation titled "Inbetween Bodies: The Marked and Unmarked Subjects of Contemporary Animation."  She received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in English and Art Practice and minored in Creative Writing. In addition to her scholarly work, she maintains an art practice working in film, animation, comics, and a variety of paper-based media. Her work as a storyboard artist can also be seen in Boots Riley’s "Sorry to Bother You."

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SAW Friday Night Comics: Haiku Comics with David Lasky

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"One of my favorite things to draw and lose myself in were maps and imaginary house plans. We'll draw crazy buildings that are like your ideal home that could be as big and weird as you can imagine. We'll label each room and put in all these details and imagine stories to go inside." - Jen Sandwich 

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Self-care comics & grounding practice workshop with Nicole Georges!

Develop a daily practice of combining comics and self-care by charting your emotions and drawing yourself into joyful and soothing situations with Nicole J. Georges.

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This workshop will focus on how embracing mistakes in drawing and storytelling can free us up and lead to happy accidents we wouldn't have come to any other way. There will be some drawing warm ups, a short google slides talk, and then an exercise in improvised comics + time to share. It's the class *I* need right now, so I'm hoping other people will benefit too!

Daryl is a cartoonist and teacher currently living in Vermont. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Art History and Visual Art from Barnard College in 2012, and received an MFA in cartooning from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2018. She has taught comics workshops for children, teens, and adults at schools, libraries, and museums all throughout New England, and has enjoyed expanding her reach through virtual classes on Zoom. Daryl was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent in 2014, and her first graphic novel, EXITS (Koyama Press, 2016) and was nominated for an Eisner Award.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and dozens of other publications.

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Lawrence Lindell is an artist and educator from California that works in many artistic disciplines, including comics, music, illustration, and mixed media. Over the years Lindell’s work has focused on Queerness, Mental Health, and Blackness where the themes often overlap.

Lindell has been self publishing his work for nearly a decade leading to the creation of his graphic memoir ‘From Truth With Truth’ which was nominated for the Believer Book Awards and the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics in 2020. Lindell frequently contributes to the New Yorker Daily Shouts and runs the small press Laneha House with his wife, where they publish their own work as well as The BAYlies Magazine Anthology.

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The Sequential Artists Workshop 

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