We're Here to Help You Stop Dreaming & Start Making Comics
SAW is a Non-Profit Comics School and Creative Community Led by Award-Winning Cartoonists
SAW offers 6-month and year-long intensives, short courses, vibrant memberships that are always enrolling and free resources to get you started.
Josh Bayer and Hyena Hell guide you through their own unique and visionary way of making comics!
$180
Do you love to draw? Come study with us this summer in an intensive comics class for high school students--all levels of experience are welcome.
$199
A program of 9 core classes, community accountability and personal mentoring to help you achieve your goals and reach the target. Nine 6 week professional level classes 6 week- cohort professional mentoring and lots more!
$2,499
All your questions answered
Includes
Free access to the Mighty Network, where all of our students and mentors meet and share
How to Say Everything - Tom Hart's 180 page book on staying creative
Free Course: Storytelling with The Odyssey of Sgt. Jack Brennan, from the best-selling book
Dozens of PDF and video resources on drawing, panel compositions, page compositions and lettering
Dozens of PDF and video resources on storytelling, character and pacing
Access to almost 100 videos including our Friday Night Workshops, Inking Videos and Procreate Workshops
Includes EVERYTHING in FREE TIER plus...
Your work showcased in our twice-annual SAW anthologies
Direct interaction with our FLOW mentors, currently Jen Sandwich and Jess Ruliffson and moderators Karlo Antunes and Tom Hart
Access to the 300 GB Complete SAW Reading Dropbox
Live face-to-face attendance in our 6-times-a-year LIVE PRO CALLS with live Q+A, and the Pro-Call archives
Free course: 30 Day Prompt Bouquet
Free course: Get Seen Get Good
Free course: Inner Critic Recovery Program
Free course: Let's Make a Holy Book
Almost a hundred more presentations, videos, PDFs, curated by topic, used in many of our classes
Early access to new courses, events, and resources
Ability to create own events
Includes EVERYTHING in FREE + FLOW TIER plus (see below)
Your own path is your own, and we have plenty of options for you.
Select a free-standing course above or join us in one of these ongoing 3rd tier options
Work with Derek on your own projects. Monthly! Work with Derek to on your own comics and storyboarding projects!
$150 / month
Always Enrolling. Shine a light on your ideas and memories in this intensive interactive working class in creating your graphic memoir. Sliding scale monthly pricing.
$30 / month with 14 day free trial
Get Printed and Published is our bank of printing and publishing resources, plus twice-monthly calls in which we discuss the craft and industry and our experts answer your questions.
$19.99 / month with 7 day free trial
And when you've been through some stuff...
Our Alumni Group is ready when you've made this far.
At our Gainesville, FL HQ