Lawrence Lindell

He lives in the Bay Area, California. Lindell is open about living with bipolar depression and PTSD; two of the main themes of his work. He has a middle-grade graphic novel called Buckle Up that was published in August 2024 with Random House Graphic. His 2023 graphic novel Blackward, with Drawn and Quarterly, was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel and nominated for the 2024 Eisner Awards for Best Publication for Teens.

• Name — Lawrence Lindell • Born — 4 February 1988 • Education — * Otis College of Art and Design (BFA) • California College of The Arts (MFA) • Occupation — Cartoonist, author, musician, educator and artist • Notable Works — From Truth With Truth, Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This, From Black Boy With Love, The BAYlies, Blackward

Lindell is from Compton, California and grew up in various cities in Los Angeles County. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Otis College of Art and Design, where he majored in illustration and animation. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Comics from California College of the Arts in 2020.

In 2017, he produced the autobiographical comic Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This and From Black Boy With Love which gained media attention from outlets including Huffington Post, Afropunk, Atlanta Black Star, and NowThis. In 2018 he published The Section, which is a web comic about blackness. The Section was later adapted into his 2023 graphic novel Blackward. He started the comics archive/collective The BAYlies. In 2020 Lindell self published his graphic memoir "From Truth With Truth", that deals with how he navigated his mental health issues, parents divorce and healing. His Kickstarter campaign for The BAYlies magazine anthology (a comics magazine that features Bay Area based cartoonists of color and queer cartoonists) was successfully funded. Lindell and cartoonist Breena Nuñez started the small press Laneha House. In 2021 Lindell's graphic memoir "From Truth With Truth" was nominated for The Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics and the Believer Book Award long list for Graphic Narrative. He signed on to publish his middle-grade graphic novel Buckle Up with Random House Graphic, which released in 2024. In 2022 Lindell and Breena Nuñez started the Kinnard Awards with Laneha House. The award is named in honor of cartoonist Rupert Kinnard.

Lindell lives in California. He is married to fellow cartoonist Breena Nuñez. The two became engaged in 2018 at the East Bay Alternative Zine Fest, which is where they met in 2015 and married in 2020.

• House of Black. A Black Comics and Zine Art Exhibition, Joint Exhibition with Breena Nuñez (2023). • Resplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics, Group Show (2022). • A STORY LIKE MINE, Group Show (2022). • Emerging Artist Showcase: Lawrence Lindell, Solo Art Exhibition (2021). • The Fine Art of Radical Self-Publishing, Group Show (2020). • Queer Comics Saves Lives, Solo Art Exhibition (2020). • We are more: Stories by Queer Artists, Group Art Exhibition (2019).

• No Straight Lines: The Rise Of Queer Comics (2021)