Sara Lautman is an artist and teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Playboy, Mad, The Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where her cartoons have appeared since 2016.
Some of her books and minicomics are Lying & Cursing, The Ultimate Laugh (Tinto Press), Ghost Sex, Pictures of Bananas and Funny Bugs (Birdcage Bottom), I Love You (Retrofit), The Humble Simple Thing (a collaboration with the novelist Sheila Heti), Red Clover (Atomic Books), and Types: A Consideration of Queer Elderhoods (Pressing Concern).
She is the illustrator of Emily Danforth’s Plain, Bad Heroines (Harper Collins), a national bestseller, winner of a 2021 ALA Alex award and shortlisted as a Stonewall Honor Book. Her graphic novel, Jason, is available as a serial on slaut.itch.io.
Sara teaches comics at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a founding member of the queer art collective MVTT MVRT in Baltimore and sticker designer for the the grassroots positivity movement BNTP.
Support Craft (Parsifal), a new collection of three stories, is debuting at SPX 2024.
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