Authors

Adam Rosenblatt

Adam Rosenblatt lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he works as a professor of International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, draws comics, and sometimes tries to combine the two. He is the author of Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming Buried Pasts and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds (Stanford University Press, 2024) and a co-founder of the Durham Black Burial Grounds Collaboratory. You can read more about his academic work at https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Adam.Rosenblatt, and see more comics and drawings at https://www.instagram.com/researchcartoonist/.

Adrean Clark

Hi! I'm Adrean Clark, an ASL Deaf artist. These are my comics.

Aman King

Aman King has had a lifelong interest in comics. He believes that comics can bring people and communities together, and be a vehicle for (re)discovering oneself. During the pandemic, he made the jump from reading comics to making comics. His year-long comics training at SAW enables him to balance comics making with his software industry day job. Raised in India, Aman is now settled in New South Wales, Australia.

Amihan Krystal de Leon

Amihan de Leon is a woodland creature who–through her official correspondence with the tooth fairy in childhood–nurtured a passion for diverse forms of art, music, and stories. She hopes to imbue whimsy, wildness, and sparkle in her storytelling across mediums so people can experience the same magic that shaped her.

Christa Clark

Christa Clark is an emerging illustrator and comic artist based in Southern Ontario, Canada. She resides with her husband, two children, and a very cute axolotl. Christa is currently honing her craft in the Year-Long Program at the Sequential Artists' Workshop (SAW). Follow on Instagram @christacclark, and her website below:

CJ Wu

CJ Wu is a Chinese comic artist currently residing in Sydney, Australia. CJ creates autobiographical comics about life's little joys and struggles. Besides making comics, CJ writes apps, teaches Polish, and very occasionally burps. Find CJ @cjmakescomics

Dana Cox

Dana Cox is a comic artist and illustrator from Los Angeles, California. She makes comics primarily about her own life, but also sometimes about grocery stores. Her comic, "Fullerton" was nominated for best comic zine of 2023 by Broken Pencil Magazine. She finds existence perplexing, startling, and often upsetting. If you go for a walk together, she’s probably gonna point out a dog, a bird, or a plant and make you look at it.

Darlene Campbell

Cartoonist…Look for Zebra- he usually shows up somewhere!

Derek Ballard

Derek Ballard is the Florida-based artist of Cartoon Show.  and The Shape of Comics to Come.

Donna Druchunas

My motto is "Make, Savor, Share." I love drawing and making comics on paper and on my iPad.

Elizabeth A. Trembley

I am also a teacher. I offer workshops in comics, zine-making, graphic memoir, storytelling, online pedagogy, and innovation strategies. I lead the Graphic Memoir +Medicine ongoing group online at the Sequential Artists Workshop.

Ellen Beier

Ellen started drawing at age four by the side of her artist/sculptor grandmother. After a career illustrating children’s books, she is working on a NF graphic novel based on a discovery in 19th-century Spain. Her comic in this anthology is a short dive into memoir.

Emil Wilson

Emil Wilson is an advertising art director, illustrator, and comics artist based in San Francisco. He is a recent graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies. More of his work can be found on Instagram @emilwilsonart and online at the site below.

Emily Zilber

Emily Zilber is a cartoonist, writer, and illustrator. Her comics and visual essays focus on caretaking, artistic and curatorial labor, nurturing creativity, living in a body, parenting, and mental health. Her work has been published through MUTHA Magazine and the Sequential Artists Workshop. Find more of her work @emilyzilberdraws and her website below.

Frankie D

Frankie is a cartoonist from New Jersey who adores anything paranormal or spooky. He also likes Frankenstein a completely normal amount. His website has links to other socials, find them at electricfrank3n.weebly.com.

Friday Night Comics

Comics made by various artists (credited in each PDF) during our Free Friday Night Comics Workshops, continuing the tradition created by The Believer. Hosted on ZOOM by The Sequential Artists Workshop.

Galina

Galina has an approximate knowledge of many things, including but not limited to making comics, writing software, and making comics adjacent to writing software. Her birth certificate holds a record of a [country that no longer exists] but the current geographical land is known as Kazakhstan. She currently resides between the coasts of the United States.

J. Autumn Needles

J. Autumn Needles teaches Pilates in Seattle and likes to move her body in different ways. She also likes how other bodies move and learn, so she’s having fun with the adventures of her new spider friend. Stay tuned for the full kids’ comic starring Spider and connect @grub2comics on Instagram!

Janice Goldberg

I can draw, paint, design, and now I am learning how to make comics! Instagram: @janicegoldbergart

Jeannie Mecorney

Creating Chicken Comix! Looking for the Ha Ha in every day.

Jen Grisard Ludwig

This much is true. Jen Grisard Ludwig spent the first half of her life in Cleveland, Ohio, always interested in and studying art. She flew the coop to San Diego, California in pursuit of happiness. Still defining it for herself, happiness currently includes her supportive husband, her spicy friends, her silly beagle… and of course her very necessary art (drawing, painting, writing, and all-around-making). Jen creates and shows paintings around Southern California, teaches adult art classes, and hopes to continue hatching (and consuming!) comics in perpetuity. Find her online @artistjenart

Jen Sandwich

https://www.instagram.com/jensandwich/

Jennifer Shiman

Jennifer Shiman is a cartoonist and creator of 30-Second Bunnies Theatre, with over 95 animated shorts. She just finished the first draft of graphic novel World’s End Detective Agency, in which Avery Bear must save a town from the villainous dragon who happens to be her client. Find Jennifer at Patreon.com/30SecondBunniesTheatre, AngryAlien.com, and JenniferShiman.com.

Jessica Pavone

Jessica K Pavone is a cartoonist, an illustrator, and an occasional painter. She lives in Washington, DC. @drolldoodles

Jim Hamilton

Jim Hamilton is an author/illustrator from Marshfield, Massachusetts. You can learn more about his work on his website: www.greenharbor.com.

Judy Powell

Judy studied Fine Art in the UK and has exhibited across Ireland and the UK. In 2021 she won the Rosalind Penfold Prize for her draft of ‘Ways To Kill My Mother’s Lover’. Her work can be found in Lockdown Lowdown: ‘Finding our Future’.Over Inked: ‘Strength and Colossive Press Cartographies: ‘Tea With Granny.

Justin M. Carroll

Justin Carroll is an associate professor of American, British, and Native American history at IUE. He is a fine arts student interested in illustration and comic art.

Kim Laurenti

Kim Laurenti has lived in the humid subtropics of South- West Florida most of her life and is the author of Hold Still published by SAW and can be purchased here: https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/books-for-sale/hold-still-by-kim-laurenti

Lynn Von Sien

Lynn Von Sien is a graphic memoirist living and working in northern Minnesota. Lynn holds a B.S. in Design from the University of Minnesota ('87). She has been awarded an Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Grant (2021), and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant (2023). Her soon to be complete graphic memoir Snow Emergency Route is a tragicomic account of caregiving her terminally ill adoptive mom.

Mae Wilson

Mae Wilson (b.1991) is a cartoonist, illustrator, and storyteller from San Luis Obispo, California. She has worked as an art teacher, environmental educator, museum guide, and freelance illustrator. While working in museum interpretation, she became interested in the art of oral storytelling and the ways ideas are expanded, compressed, and shaped for a particular audience. Much of her work deals with how we see the world through our own experience and our relationship with the things we hide from ourselves.

Maia Iotzova

Maia Iotzova (@maiaiotzova, maiaiotzova.com) was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and now works and lives in Montréal, Canada and Sofia. She is a visual artist, filmmaker, and graphic novelist. She uses a variety of mediums to explore the human relationship with nature and culture and is interested in identity and the human psyche. As a visual artist, Iotzova has had her work exhibited in Bulgaria, Croatia, Switzerland and Canada. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from University of Guelph, Canada.

Mariah Burton Nelson

Artist. Athlete. Author (The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football). mariahburtonnelson.com

Martha Kuhlman

Martha Kuhlman is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of History, Literature, and Art at Bryant University where she teaches courses on the graphic novel, Central European literature, and Creativity. She coedited The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking with the University Press of Mississippi (2010) with Dave Ball, and Comics of the New Europe (2020) with Leuven University Press, and her articles have appeared in The Journal of Popular Culture, European Comic Art, and The Comparatist. In addition to her academic publications, she reviews contemporary graphic narratives, translates comics from Czech to English, and is currently enrolled in the Sequential Arts Workshop, an international online school for making comics.

Matt "Doc Hoff" Hoffman

Matt "Doc Hoff" Hoffman was a kid who couldn't read, but now is called "doctor" because he fell in love with comics. As a healthcare chaplain, "Doc Hoff" has worked in the humanitarian aid sector for over a decade helping set up charitable clinics and hospitals in healthcare deserts in the United States and around the world. He is the author of the book, "Pandemic Theology: Listen, Lament & Labor, A Theology That Emerged From Those Who Worked on COVID Units." He also serves as an adjunct professor for medical students teaching work/life balance and self-care. His own pursuit of self-care mirrors the heeded words of Lynda Berry, "To all the kids who quit drawing, come back!"

MB Aschner

Formerly, an off-Broadway playwright and actor, animation screenwriter, and long-form improv performer. A graduate of the SAW 2020 Graphic Novel Program and 2022 Year Long Program. As a SAW volunteer, he facilitates Palooza and cohosts Sunday Open Studios (SOS).

Mwandeyi Kamwendo

Mwandeyi is a narrative artist based in Washington, D.C. She loves exploring story through shape, line, and character. She uses a combined approach of studio fine art and character-driven drawing to capture the dynamic histories of worlds similar to our own.

Olivier Ballou

Olivier Ballou is a creative director based in Washington, DC. Learn more on Instagram @valdorneon.

Rachel Alatalo

Rachel Alatalo is a writer-turned-comic artist based in Boston, MA. A student of the SAW Year Long Comics Program, they share comics about mental health, chronic illness, and cats on Substack and on Instagram @misc.rachel.

Rob Stephens

Rob drawer, painter, printmaker, now com- ics maker. He went to Southern Methodist University, and Ohio State University. Later he taught studio art at universities. Musician adjacent. Queer. His legs don’t work good anymore. Things might work out. Find him @goodkidrob

SAW Alumni

Alumni of SAW's 6 or 9 month intensive programs https://learn.sawcomics.org/

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Shannon Azzato

Shannon Azzato's work explores the complexities of mind and memory against the backdrop of an often-nomadic life. A former English professor, she is a concept consultant, literary coach, and editor for books, graphic novels, and other media. She can be found at www.shannonazzatostephens.com.

Sofia Palma

Sofia Palma is a Portuguese cartoonist based in China, where she works as an art educator. Sofia makes comics inspired by her personal experiences, often portraying her close friends and family. You can usually spot her with a small handmade sketchbook and pen in hand, always ready to draw the world around her.

Susan Marks

Busy creating comics.

Thony Aiuppy

Thony Aiuppy is a visual artist, cartoonist, zinester, and storyteller. For more than a decade, Thony has worked as an art educator with learners of all ages. His comics have been featured in various independent comic anthologies. He lives and works in Jacksonville, Florida.

Tom Hart

Tom Hart is the director of the Sequential Artists Workshop!

Tor Freeman

Tor Freeman is a London-based illustrator. In 2012 she was awarded the Sendak Fellowship. In 2017 she won the Guardian Graphic Short Story Prize. Her books include the Digby Dog and Olive series. She took the SAW In-Person Year-Long Program in 2019-2020 and made this comic then.

Vanessa Davis

Vanessa Davis is a Los Angeles illustrator and cartoonist and the author of Spaniel Rage (March 2017, Drawn and Quarterly) and Make Me a Woman, (Drawn and Quarterly, 2010).