Sara Lautman is an illustrator, cartoonist, and teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her drawings have been published in The New York Times, Playboy, Mad, The Paris Review 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. Support Craft (Parsifal, 2024), a collection of three stories, was shortlisted for the Cartoonist Studio Prize in 2025.
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’s received support from Macdowell, Wedding Cake House and the Dirt Palace of PVD, the Ora Lerman Trust, the Ruby Foundation, Art Farm Nebraska, and is a member of the gay art collective MVTT MART in Baltimore.
