Sarah Myer

  • Comics

Comic Artist, Writer, and Colorist Sarah Myer (They/Them) is an Eisner and L.A. Times Book Prize nominated author of the graphic memoir Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story (First Second Books), which is the 2024 ILA Young Adult NonFiction Winner, has received multiple starred reviews, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and was selected as a Kirkus Best Teen & YA Graphic Literature of 2023. Sarah is currently the illustrator and cover artist of several comic issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures, and was previously the colorist of TMNT vs Street Fighter and TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures comics, as well as a variant cover artist of TMNT Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen issues for IDW Publishing. Sarah’s other current and recent work includes their webcomic Cheer Up, Michael! and the NY Department of Education and Good Trouble Productions comic Barrier Breakers: Helen Stephens which is free to use in New York State school curriculums. Sarah’s previous work includes Hello Kitty & Friends Coloring Book (VIZ Media), the Ringo Award Nominated Anthology Votes for Women: The Battle for the 19th Amendment (Little Red Bird Press) for which they wrote and illustrated the installment “Asian American Exclusion,” and the graphic novel Maker Comics: Create a Costume! (First Second Books). In addition to writing and illustrating comics, Sarah previously taught Foundation Studies courses at SCAD and has attended comic and anime conventions since 1999, exhibiting and selling their art at a variety of conventions since 2002. Sarah can be found at sarahmyer.net and on instagram @smyercomics