Sequential Artists Workshop
Episodes
The Terrible Anvil: Terrible Commitments!
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Terrible Anvil Season 2 | Episode 2: Terrible Commitments! Tom and Jess about making accidental or conscious decisions early on that we are forced...
The Terrible Anvil Returns!
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hi! Welcome back to The Terrible Anvil! Tom Hart and Jess Ruliffson love to talk about making comic-making EASIER, and in this season 2 opener, we’r...
Drawing Health: Inner Intimacy, with Sacha Mardou
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Inner intimacy, with Sacha MardouHave you read IFS comics yet? You’re about to.Sacha Mardou has been making journal comics about the most intimate m...
Drawing Health: Animal Body
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know you’re still an animal? How do you care for your animal? Listen and settle into sensation, instinct, quiet observation. Your body knows...
Drawing Health: Creative Commons with Aaron Comeau
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For this, our last episode of the Winter 2025/26 season, we have a special one for you.I decided to share some ramblings at the start of this one, abo...
Drawing Health: Settle Softly
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Get cozy. Lie down. Softness is all around us, and still hard to find if we’re locked into tension. When I taught this practice, it was because I n...
Drawing Health: Living Anatomy, with Kriota Willberg
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode brings you the one and only Kriota Willberg!Kriota’s career has been constructed of her own passions, no matter how different they may ...
Drawing Health: Pain points, and lines, and shapes
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This one’s gonna hurt.And that’s okay, pain is part of life. We all feel it, so let’s give it the grace of our attention.You may have heard the ...
Chronic Illness Comics Club, with Zareen Choudhury
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode’s guest is Zareen Choudhury!Zareen is relatively new to the comics scene, but her clear ambitions and community-building projects are a...
Drawing Health: Unwinding
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I’d been told I need unwinding for my drawing parts, after years of habits and strain have wound me tight. What it means may be different for each o...
Drawing Health: Growing a Visual Health Vocabulary
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Where do you start, making graphic medicine about your health experiences? You start with yourself! Your own feelings, your own symptoms, your own lan...
Drawing Health: The Powers We Sleep On with Maureen Burdock
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Maureen’s latest book, Sleepless Planet, weaves an ecology of sleep through gorgeous comics imagery, filled with personal stories and loads of resea...
Drawing Health: Variety of Movement
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What movements do you do every day? What shapes and motions do you NEVER make? What about when you're drawing?This practice is a gentle space to obser...
Drawing Health: Yumi Sakugawa
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When you are interested in mental health and your own well-being, if you keep following that theme, sooner or later you’re going to get radicalized....
Drawing Health: Listening Now
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DHPOD Episode 2: Listening Now (body awareness practice and guided meditation)If you’re just starting to listen to your body, it’s gonna hurt. Why...
Drawing Health Podcast - Why this, why now? with Tom Hart
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hart and I have been working together for years, and as Founder and Director at SAW, Tom is the reason this podcast exists at all. What better way...
Supporting and Understanding Comics
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hart and Georgia Webber want to help comics creators by helping the people around them understand what they do. This first of four episodes is ver...
Comics Karma - Episode 14 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode fourteen and our finale of this season of Comics Karma, we welcome back Michael Aschner after MISSING his deadline and quitting another pro...
Comics Karma - Episode 13 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode thirteen of Comics Karma, Lauren tries real life, and then we talk with the amazing Dante Gabriel Hookey who asks what comics mean, why are...
Comics Karma - Episode 12 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode twelve of Comics Karma, Lauren talks about an editor helping slash away at unneeded parts of her memoir. Then we invited Falling expert, Ji...
Comics Karma - Episode 11 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode eleven of Comics Karma, Lauren is finishing up her 2nd to last chapter and we welcomed SAW member (and EISNER NOMINEE!) Pam Wye, who has b...
Comics Karma - Episode 10 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode ten of Comics Karma, Lauren is back from her art adventures and finds herself in balancing art and “real life.” (Hint: cleaning toilets...
Comics Karma - Episode 9 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode nine of Comics Karma, Lauren calls in from Yaddo, where she is in a totally intense headspace and is finishing a chapter with the luxury of...
Comics Karma - Episode 8 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode eight of Comics Karma, Tom and Lauren talk to Robert Danberg, who has been a student for so long, practicing and growing for so long, he wa...
Comics Karma - Episode 7 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode seven of Comics Karma, Tom and Lauren talk to Kayte Young who spent a year on an 18 page comic, and is wondering, if this piece took so lon...
Comics Karma - Episode 6 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode six of Comics Karma, Tom and Lauren talk to Emil Wilson, who knows something is pretty good, maybe good enough, but wants to know at what p...
Comics Karma - Episode 5 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode five of Comics Karma, Tom Hart and Lauren Weinstein are talking about comics and addressing students’ questions directly. Tom and Lauren ...
Comics Karma - Episode 4 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 4 - I'm making a Frankenstein's monster of identity and memory. How do I do it?! With guest SAW member Dusty McGowan!In episode four of Comics...
Comics Karma - Episode 3 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode three of the newly christened Comics Karma, with Tom Hart and Lauren Weinstein are talking about comics and addressing students’ question...
Comics Karma - Episode 2 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode two of the newly christened Comics Karma, with Tom Hart and Lauren Weinstein are talking about comics and addressing students’ questions ...
Sequential Artists Workshop Talk - Episode 1 with Lauren Weinstein and Tom Hart
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While the Terrible Anvil takes a break, Tom Hart and Lauren Weinstein are taking the reins to talk about comics for a few weeks, and to address studen...
How To Make Comics Forever!
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our very last episode of The Terrible Anvil (Season One) was recorded this week! With Tom and Jess together in the same room! We tried to tie a bow ar...
Dialogue and Writing for Comics
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week we recorded the penultimate episode of The Terrible Anvil, this time discussing scripts, dialogue, and writing for comics! Art (slightly ada...
Color in Comics!
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Terrible Anvil, we parsed one of Jess's favorite topics: COLOR!!(Watercolor illustration by Jess!)Here's a quick look at our tips for...
Medium Rare: Analog, Digital, and Everything In Between
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comics itself is a medium and practice. But it also can be host to lots of different working mediums: traditional comics materials, new digital tools,...
Dealing with Criticism in Comics
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Terrible Anvil we talked about CRITICISM! Criticism and rejection are inevitable parts of the creative process—so how can we make t...
Collaboration in Comics
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talked all about creative collaboration! [Note: We had a couple technical difficulties this episode, and there’s a bit of silence from ...
Starting Over in your Comics
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Terrible Anvil Episode Fourteen: Starting OverHi, Friends!This week on The Terrible Anvil, Tom Hart and I dug deep on the topic of STARTING OVE...
Style: How do you get it?
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talked STYLE! How do you make your own artistic style? How long does it take? Do you need to stick to one at all? We go over these questi...
Finding Joy and Sustainability in Comics
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we got rather philosophical here at the Terrible Anvil podcast! We tackled lots of big ideas, but circled back again and again to finding jo...
Background Music (How, When, and Why to Draw Backgrounds)..
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Terrible Anvil, we talked about BACKGROUNDS! When and How and Why to draw them, maybe also hopefully indirectly answering Oneita's ...
Lower Your Expectations and Reach Your Comics Goals!
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, Friends!This week's episode of The Terrible Anvil was streamed LIVE on YouTube (I dunno if we will do that regularly, but if you've been wanting...
How To Table at Comics Conventions—And Make Friends!
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Terrible Anvil Episode 9 - How to Win Friends & Influence People (TABLING at Conventions!) In this episode we talk about some of the most social f...
Monetizing Every Moment of Waking Existence on Instagram (What Could Go Wrong?)
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talked about navigating social media to promote your work and make money as a cartoonist—from networking and building your audience, to...
I Pitched a Book and Now I Feel Terrible!
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jess and I continued our discussion of PITCHING, and about feeling weird and lousy and under pressure and low boundary and high maintenance...
How to Pitch Your Comics
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of The Terrible Anvil we talked about pitching your work—whether short-form comics or book proposals—and getting published ...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lettering
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s Terrible Anvil we talk about CHOOSING IDEAS and then LETTERINGWe talked a lot about IDEAS as SPELLS, and that ideas assert themselves. A...
The Terrible Anvil - Episode 4
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 4 - Building the Dream Castle Today on Episode Four of The Terrible Anvil, we tried to tackle the topic of making a sustainable creative physi...
The Terrible Anvil Episode 3
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 - On Early Drafts We had THREE topics that were somewhat braided together: * A thought Jess had: Become more interested in DOING what you're...
The Terrible Anvil - Episode 2
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 - Lean into the worst In the Comics FLOW + PUBLISH group we asked around: how do you lean in when the going gets weird? What parts are EXTRA...
The Terrible Anvil - Episode 1
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you make comics without all the frustration? Without feeling lousy and inadequate all the time? With the Terrible Anvil of daily deadlines! And...