Rachel is standing in her studio

Rachel Lindsay

is a Burlington, Vermont based cartoonist. Her book, RX: A Graphic Memoir (2018), was the featured book for US National Network of Libraries of Medicine's Mental Health Month 2019, and was included on the American Association of Medical Colleges' Top Ten Summer Reads list 2019.

She is also the creator of Rachel Lives Here Now (2013-present), a comic strip about Vermont-centric themes, which runs every other week in Vermont’s alt-weekly newspaper Seven Days.

She has spoken about her work at the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Rounds, Harvard Medical School, The Miami Book Fair, the Toronto Comics Arts Festival, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, Mount Sinai Hospital's Icahn School of Medicine and other institutions and organizations interested in mental illness and comics, treatment and storytelling.

Her work can be seen on The New Yorker’s website, Spiralbound, Issue #4 of James Kochalka's Superf*ckers Forever series, The Ladybroad Ledger, and The Maple Key Comics Anthology.

She has a B.A. in American Studies from Columbia University. She continues her work in this field on her Rachel Lives Here Now Bluesky account, where she pushes forward the importance of reflecting on, celebrating, and challenging American history and identity.

 

“Wizard of Life” Reading - Vermont Comedy Club - 2016

 

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