Kate Lacour’s comics have been described as “an immediately satisfying experience that operates at some sub-articulate level,” by The Onion A.V. Club, and “occasionally gross, often disturbing and yet still beautiful,” by Comics Beat.
She won the 2017 Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art award from the Society of Illustrators. Her comics have been published nationally by Fantagraphics, and locally by Antenna Works. Her work is syndicated in Antigravity magazine and on Studygroup Comics.
Available as a hardcover graphic novel through Fantagraphics
Kate Lacour’s Vivisectionary is a boundlessly inventive feast of single page sequential images that illustrates marvelous, hideous, enigmatic physiological mysteries—a visual guide to the intimate workings of impossible biologies, told through a series of scientific diagrams and tableaux. The coldness of scientific charts alternates with raw and intimate imagery, exploring a world where hummingbirds can be parasites, where feces can be transformed into brain tissue or gemstones. Part comic art, part textbook, Vivisectionary blends sex, religion, science, and body horror, with an eye to the sublime and the grotesque.
Available as a risograph printed book on Etsy.
An intensely private and juvenile exploration of selfhood and the body, centered on the imaginary world of an eight year old female.
Available as a serialized web comic at Study Group Comics.
Following the spiritual journey and progressive degradation of an aspirant being through a complex series of realms and transformations.
Available as a die-cut cover printed comic on Etsy.
Inspired by Vedantic teachings, Incision is a metaphysical reimagining of transformative surgical procedures.
Contribution to NOW #7, coming soon from Fantagraphics.
The parable of Pinnochio, inspired by the original 19th century cautionary fable by Carlo Collodi, and by the Holy Bible.
Watercolor, ink, and dye-based paintings on archival watercolor paper.
Ink and watercolor painting inspired by the poem, “The Jewel,” by James Wright.
Ink and watercolor portrait, inspired by the 14th century religious treatise, the Cloud of Unknowing.
Watercolor, ink, and gold leaf painting. Inspired by the song “Where Does Your Body Begin?” by Michael Gira.
Ink, watercolor, dye, and silver leaf painting. Inspired by the apparition of Kali to Ramakrishna Paramahansa.
Figurative work painted with ink, watercolor, dye, and food coloring on paper. Informed by principles of symmetry and transformation, and by preoccupation with dismemberment, horror, and the sublime.
Painted with ink.
Painted with ink and watercolor dye.
Painted with ink and watercolor.
Painted with ink and food coloring.
Painted with ink and food coloring.
Painted with ink and food coloring.
Kate Lacour specializes in hand-drawn style technical illustration for museum display, print, and promotional products. Clients include the Sazerac Museum, the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Comics Journal.
Poster commissioned for a lecture on the history of women’s health treatments, including the management of childbirth, contraception, menstruation, and hysteria.
Paleomastodon and Embolotherium, excerpt from a nonfiction children’s book manuscript
Illustration of an incident in which a fall from the subject’s horse released a debilitating infection of tuberculosis, which had previously become encysted in her leg bone.
From “Strange Wit,” a graphic biography of author and playwright, Jane Bowles.
Illustration for lead essay, by James Marcus, in Virginia Quarterly Review
Mature couple intimacy, created for Love Across the Lifespan
Illustration of the bloody 1900 New Orleans riots, ignited by the killing of a police officer by Robert Charles.
Created for Paper Monuments, a public history project celebrating the New Orleans tricentennial through the replacement of Confederate monuments with ephemeral representations of diverse historical narratives.
Ergot analgesic and trepanation drill
excerpt from a nonfiction book created for the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
Portrait of Tom Spurgeon, 1968-2019, founder of The Comics Reporter
Kate Lacour creates designs for media and products that incorporate a hand-drawn aesthetic. Clients include Little Luxuries, the Sazerac Museum, Old 77 Hotel and Chandlery, and Void Merchandise.
free downloadable community resource created for NEXT Distro, available English/Spanish
local museum signage created for reopening in line with pandemic health protocols
visual guide created for Antigravity Magazine coverage of monkeypox outbreak and public health response in New Orleans
Harm reduction awareness poster created for NEXT Distro
Cover image for Antigravity Magazine’s 2022 issue on the state of public health in New Orleans
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16 page free community resource, info comic guide to opioid overdose awareness, prevention, and response
