Landis Blair

Biography

Landis Blair is the author and illustrator of The Envious Siblings and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes (Norton, 2019). Additionally, he illustrated the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity (Norton, 2017) and the graphic novel The Hunting Accident (First Second, 2017), which won Best in Adult Books at the Excellence in Graphic Literature awards.

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ON BECOMING / Winter 2024

Letting Go

By Clayton Dalton ,  Illustration by Landis Blair

What do we do with the undertow of grief that remains when someone we love, or something we need, is gone? We’re taught to celebrate milestones, our achievements and additions, but are never taught how to grieve. It seems like an important...

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ON BECOMING / Winter 2023

Pretty Much a Gift

By Garret Keizer ,  Illustration by Landis Blair

My sense of gratitude seems to have grown with time. I feel grateful about as often as I need to pee, which these days is a matter of minutes more than hours. 
FICTION / Spring 2020

A Friend

By Kevin Wilson ,  Illustration by Landis Blair

Margo’s daughter came home from school that Friday with a new friend. From the window in the kitchen, where she was trying and failing to make decent croissants for the third time this week, Margo watched the bus deposit her eight-year-old...

Illustration by Landis Blair
FICTION / Spring 2020

The Year 2003 Minus 20

By Kelli Jo Ford ,  Illustration by Landis Blair

Reney’s bones can feel a fight long before the rest of her wakes to the rising voices and clattering bottles. She is eight, almost nine. Granny and Lula live in a new rent house across the tracks and down a long hill, not so very far. Over...

Illustration by Landis Blair
FICTION / Spring 2020

The Tobacconist

By Claire Luchette ,  Illustration by Landis Blair

There was a period of my life when I saw wombs all around me, and so of course the chandeliers were uteruses.

Illustration by Landis Blair
ESSAYS / Fall 2019

Reaper Madness

By Michelle Tea ,  Illustration by Landis Blair

When your four-year-old begins talking incessantly about death, there are a few tactics for dealing with it. One is curiosity. Why do you want to die? Why do you hope you die today? Why do you love to die? Why do you want to kill yourself?...