Ali Fitzgerald is a regular contributor and comic columnist for the The New Yorker. She also writes articles and comics for other magazines and newspapers.

Ali's acclaimed first graphic nonfiction book, Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe was published in late 2018 with Fantagraphics.

In 2025, she will publish Squeak, Chatter, Bark, an all-ages eco-mystery, with Fantagraphics.

Learn more in her bio and discover some of her work below.

“One of the finest pieces of comics nonfiction I’ve read in years.” — New York Magazine: Vulture

“Beautiful, sensitive, illuminating, and at times quite funny. ... every page is a gem.” — LA Review of Books

“It’s quite an extraordinary book—a thoughtful and deeply empathetic examination of displacement and hope, focusing on the situation of immigrants in Berlin, past and present.” — The Rumpus

Winner of the Independent Publisher’s award for best graphic book of 2019.

Named one of the best comics of 2018 by New York Magazine

Newspapers and Magazines

Vanishing Panels A comic about Patricia Highsmith's comic writing (The New Yorker, 2023)	Iconoclastic A comic about designer Susan Kare, for the MoMA exhibition "Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design"	America! A comic column in The New Yorker, since 2018
Comics about literature In the New York Times	The Museum of Purgatory A comic about lost souls and feeling stuck (The New Yorker, 2020)	The Dad Archive A piece about archiving loss (The New Yorker, 2020)
Arts writing As a columnist and correspondent in Berlin for Art21	Bermuda Square Weekly comic in New York Magazine - The Cut