Sara Lautman is an illustrator, cartoonist, and professor in Baltimore, MD. Her drawings have been published in The New York Times, Playboy, Mad, The Paris Review and all over the place. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where her cartoons have appeared in print and online 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 cut-up 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. Support Craft issue two was published by Parsifal Press 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 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 queer art collective MVTT MART in Baltimore.

An expanded Jason will be published in print by Go Press Girl in 2027. A collection of single panel cartoons will be available from Fieldmouse Press in 2028.