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Lauren Rebecca Weinstein

She // Her // Hers

Sequential Storyteller

Maplewood, New Jersey

A woman with fair skin smiles widely at the camera. She has long curly brown hair and a yellow jacket.

Photo by Lisa Whiteman.

“I make comics because they are a democratic medium: all you need to get them out is a copy machine or the internet, but their artistic storytelling potential feels endless.”

Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist, animator, and visual artist whose funny, bizarre, and humane comics have appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, Village Voice, Paris Review, Bookforum, and The Guardian among many other outlets. 

For over two decades Weinstein’s insightful comics have addressed themes like adolescence, motherhood, and mortality. As the artist-in-residence at Town Clock CDC since 2019, she collaborates with domestic violence survivors, sharing their narratives. Weinstein's graphic novella, The Gift of Time, received acclaim on Slate.com and was among the best comics of 2021. By My Own, her animated short about a woman escaping a violent arranged marriage to find healing and independence with art, is currently screening at film festivals including ASIFA East and The Woodstock Film Festival.  

Her acclaimed comic strip, Normel Person, was the last weekly strip to run in The Village Voice. In 2019, Weinstein’s Being an Artist and a Mother ran in The New Yorker, won the Slate Cartooning Studio Prize, and was selected for 2019’s Best American Comics.

A recipient of two Ignatz Awards, her graphic novels include Girl Stories, Inside Vineyland, and the unique science fiction epic Goddess of War. Recognized for her webcomic Carriers, she received a Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators in 2015. Formerly a comics instructor at The School of Visual Arts, she advocates for egalitarian pedagogy. Weinstein is represented by The Steven Kasher Gallery.

Donor -This award was generously supported by donors of the USA Fellowship Awards program.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.14.2026

Writing
An image drawn in black and white with ink lines and wash, centered in the frame with bleeding edges. A young girl is lying in the back seat of her parent's station wagon with her walkman, looking up at her reflection at night through the car window. Through handwritten thought bubbles, she wonders if there's a God up in the sky.

Excerpt of "The Chicken Dance", from chapter 1 of Calamity by Lauren Rebecca Weinstein, 2021. Ink and liquid graphite.

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Seven comics panels made with collage using bright colors depict Bloomy Bloomstein's dream of driving and running over some mystery thing that moans. The first frame depicts a small blue car driving with a cityscape in the background and takes up the top third of the page. The next six are smaller close ups of the car and driver, with moans in speech bubbles crossing between the frames.

Excerpt of "The Accident," from chapter 4 of Calamity by Lauren Rebecca Weinstein, 2024. Collage on bristol board with digital lettering.

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Bloomy Bloomstein lays in the foreground of a park at night while her friends dance out of sight. This image is watercolored with greens and yellows in the grass, spindly brown trees, and a dark blue sky.

Excerpt of "The Trip," from chapter 6 of Calamity by Lauren Rebecca Weinstein, 2025. Watercolor.

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