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Two vultures are perched atop a branch running horizontally across the page, above the author note: "A Note From the Creator This visual diary was produced during a very busy year. It starts in January 2021, when we were still very much in that strange first year of the pandemic. 6 months earlier I had taken part in SAW’s Graphic Novel Intensive. It was such a strange time and our little group really leaned into each other as we made comics and tried to make sense of it all. Time felt more expansive and there was room to create. But that feeling didn’t last long as I made the decision to finish a degree I had started years prior. My interest in regenerative agriculture was the impetus for my leap back into university life. But the juggle of school, job and family slammed me back into a hurried existence that left little time for art. On a whim, I started drawing daily pictures with quick, dry accounts of the day. I guess the idea was to help me remember the year as well as force myself to work on my weak drawing skills. They were never intended to be in the public eye and would have been approached quite differently had…" "…I known they might. It was my friends at SAW that saw some value in these pages and prompted their publication. I do believe their merit lies in the evidence that even small attempts at something over time amount to something much bigger. While this diary is far from being considered in the realm of comics, the act of drawing the steadfast march of life over the course of time could probably be considered sequential art. There was so much more life happening beyond these pages, but these little sketches helped stave the ever present artists’ guilt to create. I even hated doing them most days but it felt important that I was doing something. - Kim Laurenti, May 2023"

Two vultures are perched atop a branch running horizontally across the page, above the author note: "A Note From the Creator This visual diary was produced during a very busy year. It starts in January 2021, when we were still very much in that strange first year of the pandemic. 6 months earlier I had taken part in SAW’s Graphic Novel Intensive. It was such a strange time and our little group really leaned into each other as we made comics and tried to make sense of it all. Time felt more expansive and there was room to create. But that feeling didn’t last long as I made the decision to finish a degree I had started years prior. My interest in regenerative agriculture was the impetus for my leap back into university life. But the juggle of school, job and family slammed me back into a hurried existence that left little time for art. On a whim, I started drawing daily pictures with quick, dry accounts of the day. I guess the idea was to help me remember the year as well as force myself to work on my weak drawing skills. They were never intended to be in the public eye and would have been approached quite differently had…" "…I known they might. It was my friends at SAW that saw some value in these pages and prompted their publication. I do believe their merit lies in the evidence that even small attempts at something over time amount to something much bigger. While this diary is far from being considered in the realm of comics, the act of drawing the steadfast march of life over the course of time could probably be considered sequential art. There was so much more life happening beyond these pages, but these little sketches helped stave the ever present artists’ guilt to create. I even hated doing them most days but it felt important that I was doing something. - Kim Laurenti, May 2023"
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Comic Series

Ze and Zo

The Poem: Ze and Zo Adventure #1

Year-Long Program Student Work, 2023-24

Comics created by students of the SAW Year Long Certificate Program 2023-24 cohort
Vanessa Davis in Paris

Vanessa Davis in Paris

Recent work every week from Vanessa Davis
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Undaunted

mini-comics by Elizabeth A. Trembley
Cartoon face of a smiling bald man with glasses and a full beard. "Doc Hoff Comics"

Trapped By Corporate Zombies

A Satirical Look At Toxic Corporate Work Culture
The pursuit of unhappiness

The Pursuit of Unhappiness

Tales of Existential Horror
Snow Emergency Route

Snow Emergency Route

A tragicomic account of caregiving her terminally ill adoptive mom.
A circle stippled with a relaxed figure resting their head in their chin, rounded by the words "Push Pull" over a yellow background.

Push Pull

Featured fiction, nonfiction, and memoir comics from the SAW 2023 Graphic Novel Intensive anthology

Palmetto’s No. 1 Seller of Girl Scout Cookies

Comics from kid-life by Jen Sandwich

Mummies on my Mind

From the Obsessed Mind of Donna Druchunas

Loneliless
"Let's Try Something Else: Mini-comics by Shannon Azzato" Shannon riding an electric scooter, accompanied by imaginary creatures.

Let’s Try Something Else

Mini-comics by Shannon Azzato
"Keeping Secrets by Judy Powell" A close-up of a woman with light skin and short blond hair burying her face in her hands.

Keeping Secrets

by Judy Powell

Content warning: Sexual abuse

It’s Not About You

Excerpts from my graphic memoir about supporting my daughter through chronic illness
Across a white background and in an old western style font, the words "IN THE NEWS, AGAIN" are written in black and centered. Below the title is a cropped image of the eyes and snout of an alligator peaking out of the water, rendered in brown tones.

In The News, Again

Featured nonfiction comics from the SAW 2023 FLOW Anthology

How Did I Get Like This?

Mini-memoirs by Donna Druchunas
Hold Still by Kim Laurenti

Hold Still

Daily images from South Florida
Stylistically rendered with bright, flat colors, simplified shapes, and no line work: a man faces the reader across a cyan background with pink buildings and peach clouds. He stands on a pink road between cyan sidewalks. He is wearing aviator sunglasses and has a thick mustache with a stubbly chin. He wears a blue and black coat over a white Armani t-shirt; his hands are in his jacket pockets, to his side. We see down to his knees before the image cuts off. He is rendered with blue hair, peach skin, and a pink nose. He has an air of intimidating confidence.

Guy

Excerpt from Val-d’Or Neon
A cartoon of a woman with bright green skin and long pink hair that flows behind her. She is wearing a tiara, a pink dress, and red lipstick. She is surfing while reading a book. The right foot of another green person is standing on this surfer's left shoulder. Text in white, all-caps sans serif lettering reads: "Friday Night Comics"

Friday Night Comics

Comics made during our Free Friday Night Workshops. Hosted on ZOOM by The Sequential Artists Workshop, continuing the tradition created by The Believer.
"FOOMIN"

Foomin Organic

From Tom Hart’s ongoing notebooks
Flip Turns

Flip Turns

True stories by Mariah Burton Nelson

Falling

by Jim Hamilton

Donna’s Tarot

Croneville Carnival

Chicken Scratch

The Chicken In My Head
Cartoon Show Cover

Cartoonshow

Cartoonist and animator Derek M. Ballard makes modern American family comics. It’s not his fault that being a single parent in America is kind of a nightmare.
Beneath The Weeds I See

Beneath the Weeds I See

A memoir in a series of fragments. By Darlene Campbell
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B. Is Dying

B. is Dying but he never seems to get on with it!
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adreanaline

SAW Comics from Adrean Clark
About See Saw Comics

About See SAW Comics

A Bad Day at Gluckman Industries

A woman’s story at work. By award-winning cartoonist Tor Freeman