Valentine’s Day cards for Infinite Aggregate!

Illustration and spot for Institutional Investor, for an article about Jay Alix, the man trying to unravel the McKinsey monopoly. Full article here.

Cover for Healthy Realism’s tour tape, Baby Geniuses III. Released by International School of Evidence in February 2019. Available for purchase on Bandcamp.

Illustration for the NYT Sunday Review’s Opinion section: I Believe in Ghosts.

A portrait of Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour for The New Yorker.

A sexy comic strip for the Instagram account of Pure, a hookup app.

Cover art for James McKain’s cassette tape The Detectives. Released by Personal Archives in November 2018.

Top is the final art, others below were not used.

A comic about a bad relationship. 47 pages, published by Retrofit Comics. Buy it here.

…without question the most soul-shattering release of 2018, its ingenious marriage of physical, psychological, emotional, and sexual abuse with established tropes of the “body horror” genre carving you out (…) and don’t even get me started on the sheer power of Lannes’ gorgeously-dark graphite illustrations. She’s channeling something held so deeply inside here that I honestly don’t know how she got through the making of it without having a complete nervous breakdown --- certainly reading it will bring you right up to the threshold of one yourself. In a word -- devastating. - Ryan Carey, in The Comics Journal

This is, above all, a story about darkness. It is figurative, in that it is about the mortification of intimate relationships and the implacable advance of control one person can exert over another. But it is literal as well, and Lannes wields it like no one else in comics. Certain pages are so deeply inked that faces vanish and reappear depending upon the lighting one reads them in. Shadows mist along the edges until they swell into the abyssal plains. Lannes’ lettering — small, white, regular — flickers across the churning blackness like candles in the wind. This is, in every respect, a descent: into abuse, into erasure, and into the cavernous possibilities of sequential art. - The Verge’s 10 Best Comics of 2018

A comic commissioned by FORGE. for their 20th issue. You can read it here.

Cover for James McKain’s tape “Mint.” Available for purchase on Bandcamp.

A short collection of diary comics originally published on Patreon in 2017. Printed in risograph by Diskette Press in September 2018. 13 pages, 100 copies, never to be reprinted. Sold out.

Lannes is an incredible talent, both with her gentle brushwork and her brutal honesty. Her work is so strong because she offers a true glimpse into her life, seemingly without commentary or judgment. She’s one of the few autobiographical cartoonists I’ve read whose work truly offers a slice-of-life, neither emphasizing nor downplaying any perceived flaws. In her comics, she simply is, and it’s extremely refreshing. - Dan Stafford, on The Comics Journal

An illustration for the Intercom Blog.

For Entertainment Weekly’s Must List, an illustration on the show Younger.

Illustration for the NYT Op-Ed Saudi Women Can Drive Now. Will That Hurt Saudi Women?

I did the NYT Sketchbook on the topic of Melania’s white hat.

A cover for the Democratic Socialists of America’s internal newspaper, Democratic Left. The issue is entirely about their campaign for Medicare for All. Design by Andrea Guinn.

"The connection between partner abuse and mass shootings has become almost commonplace." Full article here.

Portraits of actors Pedro Pascal (who plays Javier Peña) and Alberto Amman (who plays Hélmer Herrera) for Entertainment Weekly.

A cover for The Guardian's December 30th 2017 Guide.

I have an 18-page comic in the Brazilian anthology Baiacu. One of my spreads was also used as the back of the publisher Todavia's little foldout catalogue.

This portrait of author Louise Erdrich was meant for a Buzzfeed Reader profile of her. Unfortunately, the illustration was cut at the last minute.

A cover the The Guardian's weekly Guide. Portrayed are the characters Dionne Davenport from Clueless, Whitley Gilbert from A Different World and Hilary Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

A collection of my diary comics from February and March 2017. Published by 2dcloud. 30 pages, printed in risograph. Buy it here.

It's hard to explain what she's doing and why. A compulsion? Oversharing? Performance? Therapy? Sickness? I think there are elements of all of these things at work here, plus a fiendishly wicked sense of humor and a sense of rising to the occasion as an artist. (...) Combining her skill as a cartoonist, her razor-sharp wit, her ability to create a structure around the experience that any reader could understand turned those experiences into one of the best autobiographical comics I've ever read. - Rob Clough, High-Low Comics

For an article on the show The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.

Illustration for a NYT Op-Ed on sexism and homophobia in the Presbyterian church. Full article: Is Your Pastor Sexist?

Two versions: black and white for print, color for web.

Cover for The Guardian's weekly Guide.

For this one I was asked to do a similar job to my previous Insecure illustration for Entertainment Weekly (this one).

Illustration for Entertainment Weekly of Elisabeth Moss, Nicole Kidman and Gwendoline Christie in the show Top of the Lake.

For an NYT Op-Ed on the author's Thanksgiving with her daughters, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein and other revelations, and after remembering the many instances of sexual harassment in her own life. Full article at the link: The Women I'm Thankful For.

For an excerpt of Jesmyn Ward's new novel Sing, Unburied, Sing on Buzzfeed Reader.

Full article here.

Illustration for an Op-Ed on a nationwide understaffing of nurses with special training to care for victims of sexual assault.

Full text at the link: Where Are the Rape-Kit Nurses?

I drew the show Champions for Entertainment Weekly’s Must List.

Illustrations of seasonal ingredients for the Guide to Advertisers spread of Edible Vineyard magazine.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany in the movie "Stronger," for Entertainment Weekly's Must List.

Illustration for a NYT Op-Ed on two congressmen who first met as kids at the Heart Mountain Japanese-American internment camps: one was a visiting Boy Scout, and the other was held there with his family.

Full article here: Friends Across Barbed Wire and Politics.

Monthly comics for Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo.

For an article on the way journalists "fabricate" news by framing them with their biases.

An illustration for Entertainment Weekly of the show Insecure (and the incredible Issa Rae, co-creator and protagonist).

For the article "Why voice will be the dominant chatbot interface," on the Inside Intercom blog.

A portrait of RuPaul, and some of the contestants from the 9th season of RuPaul's Drag Race, for Entertainment Weekly.

First page of my contribution to Comics for Choice, an anthology of stories about abortion. All proceeds go to The National Network of Abortion Funds.

The full comic can be read at The Nib.

This is the story I contributed to Mirror Mirror II, an anthology of comics on the themes of sex and horror edited by Julia Gfrörer and Sean T. Collins. The book can be purchased from the publisher, 2dcloud, or on Amazon.

Laura Lannes’s friendly indie drawings in "Love" deliver a tale of domestic tension that takes a turn straight out of Lars von Trier. - Hyperallergic

The first page of Love is one of my favorite first pages of the past few years. - Comics Bulletin

It doesn’t take long to get very disturbing - the second story, Laura Lannes’ Love, inventively combines the sexual and the horrific in a manner that would give the BBFC cause for concern were this a film. - The Quietus

SummerScreen is a series of free outdoor movie showings in Williamsburg's McCarren Park. I was asked to create a poster for the screening of the 2001 movie The Fast and the Furious.

Leslie Odom Jr., Neil Diamond, Sarah McLachlan, Loretta Lynn and Andra Day for EW's list of the hottest holiday albums of 2016. Full article at this link.

This comic was first published in the Brazilian zine XXX, in February 2014. It is currently a mini-comic by itself (which you can buy here).

A tumblr-style slice-of-lifer about mental health with hints of magic realism accelerates without warning into a gross-out lampoon of masculinity with a pee-pee joke for a punchline, with each break from the previous tone and rhythm funnier than the last. - The Comics Journal

Some of the work I've done for the NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. First is a banner for the Service Industry Working Group; then, a poster for the 2017 NYC convention; after that, flyers with illustrations I created for the DSA's campaign for the New York Health Act. Finally, a drawing of a little girl for a campaign promoting DACA assistance clinics.

In 2016 I put together this anthology of comics about abusive male partners. All the stories are true. Some of the artists created comics based on their own experiences, while others illustrated someone else's story.

Comics by Cathy G. Johnson, Céline Loup, Hannah Kaplan, Hazel Newlevant, Julia Gfrörer, Laura Lannes (that's me), Laerte, Mariana Paraízo and Puiupo.

The physical zine can be bought here.

The PDF can be bought on Gumroad for as much as you'd like; all proceeds from PDF sales go to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Edited by Laura Lannes, this is a powerful collection of stories of survival. What's really remarkable about it is how well it stands up as a work of art, not just as a work of personal expression. From decorative touches like the hand-stenciled cover and gold cardstock underlay to the large variety of visual approaches the artists used, every woman in this book contributed something remarkable. (...) Lannes takes a minimalist approach in not only recalling the details of her abusive relationship, but other events that primed her for such abuse. Her use of negative space to represent the depth of her pain and astonishment is especially stark. - Rob Clough, High-Low Comics  

A series of portraits for Taste Talks' different curators in NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago.

From top to bottom: Kelis, Mo Rocca and Sean Brock.

In 2013 I made a series of audio interviews with Brazilian cartoonists, and illustrated each one with a gouache portrait. If you speak Portuguese, you can listen to the interviews at entrevistasdalaura.tumblr.com.

Two portraits for an article on Taste Talks about African-American farmers struggling against institutional racism.

All the (fake) food hype of 2016. Co-written with Sean Twigg. Full text and more illustrations in the article at Taste Talks.

Two-color screenprint.

Spot illustration for a note on the return of Gabrielle Union's show Being Mary Jane.

Illustration for an article on Taste Talks about men who enjoy "girly" drinks.

Cartoons for Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo.

One-page story for Suplemento, a Brazilian comics newspaper.

In 2016, artist Rachel Hays and I gave a series of workshops at the Oak Bluffs Public Library in Martha's Vineyard. This poster was created to advertise the events.

Header and spot illustrations for an article on Taste Talks about the racism in the food delivery startup economy.

Cartoons written by the COO of Rehab Alternatives, drawn by me, and posted on their website.