Lawrence Lindell


Lawrence Lindell is an American cartoonist, speaker, and musician. He has written autobiographical comics including From Truth With Truth and Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This. His work covers mental health issues, blackness, and queerness. He lives in the Bay Area, California. Lindell is open about living with bipolar depression and PTSD. These are two of the main themes of his work.

Early life

Lindell is from Compton, California.

Education

He received a B.F.A. degree from Otis College of Art and Design, where he majored in illustration and animation. He is studying to complete his M.F.A from California College of the Arts in 2020.

Career

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.
In 2020 he self published his graphic memoir "From Truth With Truth". Specifically, the memoir deals with how Lindell navigated his mental health issues, parents divorce and healing.

Music, teaching, and talks

Lindell plays piano and performs live electronic sets. He has been releasing music since 2009, under various aliases and his own name.
He started an independent label called Noise Met Sound in 2013, to release his music.
Lindell also teaches, leads zine workshops, hosts comic workshops and gives lectures.
In 2018 he was a special guest at Small Press Expo, where he was on the panel “Writing With Bipolar” alongside Ellen Forney, Keiler Roberts and moderated by Rob Clough.
In 2019, he was the guest of honor for San Francisco Zine Fest. He gave a lecture at Indiana Tech as part of their Tech Talk series. He was also a featured guest at Comic Arts Brooklyn 2019, where he was on the Decolonizing Comics Panel with fellow cartoonists Trinidad Escobar and Breena Nuñez, moderated by Minnie Phan.
Lindell has written comics for The New Yorker.

Personal life

Lindell lives in California. He is engaged 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.

Exhibitions

Discography