Sara Lautman is an illustrator, cartoonist, and teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Playboy, Mad, The Paris Review, The Awl, Catapult, and others. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where her cartoons have appeared since 2016.

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. A new collection will be published by Parsifal Press in Fall 2024.

Sara teaches comics at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Other institutions where she’s taught are the California College of Art and Design, in San Francisco, and Fairleigh Dickinson University, in her home state of New Jersey. She is a founding member of the queer art collective MVTT MVRT in Baltimore.

Contact

sara.lautman@gmail.com

@slautow on Instagram
@saralautman on Twitter