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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." Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

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. Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

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. Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

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. Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

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. Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

Georgia Webber is a comics artist, editor, and facilitator living in southern Ontario. She is entirely occupied by the intersection of health and art, making music, comics, and facilitating courses from this point of fascination.   Georgia is best known for her debut graphic memoir, Dumb: Living Without a Voice (Fantagraphics 2018), the chronicle of her severe vocal injury and sustained vocal condition which causes her pain from using her voice. This difficult experience lead her to work as a Cranial Sacral Therapist, a meditation facilitator, and as an improvising musician, blending elements of healthcare, body awareness and creative expression within constraints. She has extended her love of the voice into the community with a project called MAW Vocal Arts. MAW hosts a vocal arts showcase event every few months in Toronto, Ontario, as well as a regular online practice sessions called Breathing Music where people can explore breath through deep listening, movement, meditation and sounding practices.  Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

"Using simple map-drawing exercises, we will navigate our memories and find treasures to prompt creative writing or comic-making." MJ Robinson is an author-illustrator, educator, and community organizer encouraging creative play and art-making in movements for social justice! MJ is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns. Their activism supports prison abolition, LGBTQIA2S+ rights, and racial and environmental justice in Providence, Rhode Island. A member of RISCA’s teaching artist roster, MJ’s teaching style is warm, student-centered, and anti-oppressive. They hold a certificate in Children’s Book Illustration from RISD and a BA in Studio Art and Creative Writing from Oberlin College. mj-robinson.com Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

Ellen O’Grady (she/they) lives in Durham, North Carolina. They are an artist and activist with recent work in Scalawag magazine and SOLRAD.  https://linktr.ee/ellenogrady Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop learn.sawcomics.org www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

Jett Allen is a nonbinary/trans cartoonist, illustrator, and writer living in Los Angeles, California. Their comics, visual essays, and illustrations have been published by The New Yorker (online), NYU Press, Spiralbound, Granta and more. They are currently drawing a visual column called “Trans Classic Movies” for Into and working on a graphic memoir about identity, family secrets, and the history of melodrama. https://jettallen.com Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop

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. Want to know more about SAW? Head on over to learn.sawcomics.org for more information about upcoming courses, how to join our FREE Mighty Network, and what you can do to support our mission to educate emerging visual storytellers and foster a community that celebrates creative investigation, exploration and excellence in cartooning and comic art. The Sequential Artists Workshop www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org https://linktr.ee/sequentialartistsworkshop twitter/tiktok/instagram: @comicsworkshop