publishing history
2003-2005: xtreme comics, Lawrence’s world
I was in art academy when I was in high school and I started my own “comic publishing house” called Xtreme Comics. It was a rip-off of Rob Liefeld’s Extreme Studios. I also did a short lived weekly autobiographical webcomic called Lawrence’s World where I would chronicle what happened during the week.
2008-2011: Because Life is random and so am i
In college, at Otis, I created an autobiographical comic called ‘Because Life is Random and So Am I’, that chronicled my life in art school and I also threw in random fiction comics. I was inspired by Julia Wertz (The Fart Party), Harvey Pekar (American Splendor), R Crumb (Fritz the Cat), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Joan Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac), Jeffrey Brown (Sulk) and Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis).
2012-2015: Art and comic zines
After graduating undergraduate, I switch my focus to music and art zines. I started publishing art zines to go with my albums and art zines that would sometimes feature my older comic work.
2012: Black Blood Comic Zine with 3 other cartoonists
2013: Unseen Untold: collage art zine and comics perzine
2013-2014: Music Illustration Zines
2015: Lawrence Lindell Art Zine #1
2016-Lawrence lindell studios
I started an “art studio” in 2016. Through the studio, I made many art zines, comics, and perzines.
Notable Mentions
Ink N Stuff
Color N Stuff
Thoughts
Romance N Stuff
Crush N Stuff
You’re Beautiful
Werd
The Nomad Book
300 Hunid
2017- Return to Comics
By 2017 I finally returned to comics as my main career focus.
Notable Mentions
-From Black Boy With Love
-Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This
-One collaboration comic with Breena Nuñez
-Comix N Stuff
2018-2019: Cartoonist Haus, The New yorker
2018 I was fully back to making comics full time, getting my MFA in Comics at CCA and living in a house deemed Cartoonist Haus with cartoonists Breena Nuñez and Trinidad Escobar. I created my webcomic on IG called ‘The Section’ that was inspired by Tee Franklin’s ‘Bingo Love’, started a Bay Area Cartoonist IG called The BAYlies and worked on my thesis projects at CCA.
Notable Mentions
2018-The Garden (CCA Thesis)
2018-The Section (Webcomic)
2018-Werk
2018-The BAYlies Zine 1 (Editor)
2018-Straight Passing, But Queer AF
2019-Present: New Yorker Daily Shouts
2019-Both (CCA Thesis)
2019-The Between House
2020-2022: Laneha House, Razorcake, SF Examiner
Right before Lockdown hit, I self-published my graphic memoir ‘From Truth With Truth’ and right as I was going to go on tour, everything was shut down. At the end of 2020, my spouse and I created Laneha House and the rest is history.
Notable Mentions
2020: From Truth With Truth (nominated for the Believer Book Award and the Dwayne Mcduffie Award)
2021: The BAYlies Magazine 1 (Editor)
2021-Present: Laneha House Comic Zine 1-13
2021: Still Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This Again…
2021: One with Breena Nuñez
2021-Present: Open Mic Comics
2021-Present: Baby Cartoonist
2022-Present: Razorcake
2022- SF Examiner
2023: Blackward, Paper Rocket Mini Comics, New Yorker Cartoon
In 2023 D+Q published my first long-form graphic novel with a publisher ‘Blackward’ which is based on my webcomic ‘The Section’.
It won the Excellence in Graphic Literature Award, CBC Young Adult Favorites, CBC Teacher Favorites / CBC Librarian Favorites and was nominated for and Eisner, GLAAD Media Award, Lambda Literary Award, Dwayne McDuffie Award, The Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Children’s/YA Literature and a Broken Frontier Award and received a Kirkus Starred Review.
Paper Rocket Mini Comics published my minicomic ‘Just A Kid From California’ as a part of their Mini Memoir Project.
My first New Yorker Cartoon was published in the magazine.
2024: BUckle Up, Laneha House
In 2024 RHG published my first middle-grade graphic novel based on a chapter from my CCA master thesis 'Both'.
It was named one of the 2024 Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List for The American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table and is a winner for the 2025 Children’s Book Council Teacher Favorites Award.
Notable Mentions
From Black Boy With Love: Comic Strips (Laneha House)
Once More, Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This… (Laneha House)
My 11th New Yorker Daily Shout
2025: We All Got Something
In 2025 D+Q published my graphic memoir 'We All Got Something'.
Notable Mentions
Laneha House #14 (Laneha House)
Save The Date (Laneha House)
