"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."

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The Sequential Artists Workshop

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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.

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The Sequential Artists Workshop

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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.

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The Sequential Artists Workshop

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