Rae Lanzerotti is an access artist and somatic teacher immersed in disability access tools as art. They make audiographic memoir comics and zines, multimodal art books, and big assemblages to stretch comics from visual media into tactual, audible, and other vivid, new dimensions. When sudden vision loss changed how they read, Rae started making their own graphic medicine on topics like seeing double, aging, queerness, and community. They won awards for two innovative projects in the Accessible Comics Design Competition (2022) and presented on the challenges of accessible comics design at the Graphic Medicine Conference (2023). They’re honored to be among four new board members of the Graphic Medicine International Collective in 2024. Now they’re making haptic artworks, which could be described as giant touchable and audible zines, for local museum community education projects and exhibitions. Rae is a longtime teacher of somatic and contemplative practices with elders in integrative health settings and community organizations.

Find zines in the Biblioshop of San Francisco Center for the Book as well as Silver Sprocket comics in San Francisco. Contact for artworks, permissions (for example, if you wish to reprint any comic, illustration or text from this website), and to ask about collaborating. Thanks for reading!

2024
Radical Resilience exhibition and Virtual Gallery at Ruth’s Table highlighting SF Bay Area artists who are deeply engaged in creating art while also living with disabilities, March 28 - June 7, 2024.
Indie Folk, Museum of Craft and Design MakeArt Accessible Artist, April to June 2024.
Mr. Roboto Museum of Craft and Design MakeArt Accessible Artist, February to June 2024.

Pride in Panels: SF Queer Comics Festival exhibitor, February 18.

MakeArt Activation, “Robot Light Motif,” with Museum of Craft and Design and LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco, February 1.

2023

San Francisco Zine Fest Exhibitor, September 3.

Graphic Medicine International Conference Presenter, “Visionary Comics: Accessible graphic medicine,” Toronto, July 13-15.

Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair Exhibitor, a fully virtual zine and craft fair, June 18-24, 2023.

Accessible Comics Competition Prizewinner & Symposium Presenter, May 5. SFSU Longmore Institute on Disability

Dear Diary Zine Fest Exhibitor, online April 30 - May 6.

Creators’ Space Presenter, “Embodied,” LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco, March 24.

These collections hold my graphic medicine and memoir comics!

McMaster University Health Sciences Library Graphic Medicine Collection (Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Sherwood Forest Zine Library (Austin, TX)
Wellcome Collection (London, UK)
San Francisco Center for the Book Biblioshop (San Francisco, CA)