Arie Van De Graaff
Ward Cartoonist
Single-panel gags about ward life, General Conference, and missionaries, posted twice a week since 2009. His cartoons have run in the New Era and the Friend.
Read it ↗Fellow cartoonists
More missionary comics we love
We’re not the only ones who think mission life is funny. These are comics by other Latter-day Saint cartoonists, from long-running strips to a sister missionary’s journal drawn one page a day.
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Cartoonists putting out new work you can follow.
Kevin Beckstrom
Kevin Beckstrom’s cartoons
A new cartoon about Church life every week in Meridian Magazine, from the creator of several Latter-day Saint strips over the years.
Read it ↗Classic missionary cartoons
Long-loved cartoonists and complete strips, from mission call to homecoming.
Val Chadwick Bagley
The Church magazines’ longtime cartoonist, with more than a thousand cartoons in the New Era and the Friend since 1978, plus missionary cartoon books like Mission Mania. He was his own mission’s cartoonist, too.
See his cartoons ↗
Arie Van De Graaff
Mission Daze
About 500 strips that follow one elder from the mission call to the homecoming, companions and all. The story wrapped up in 2026, and a collected book is available.
Get the book ↗Kevin Beckstrom
Sis. Kerry Jo’s Mission Blog
A sister missionary’s story told in strips, from filling out the papers to the MTC and into the field.
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Bill Fortune
Elders D&C
Two elders and their misadventures, drawn by a dad from his son’s letters home. Many are collected in the book Called to Laugh, written with Bruce E. Dana.
Read it ↗Books
Graphic novels and collections, several of them made by returned missionaries.
Brittany Long Olsen
Dendō: One Year and One Half in Tokyo
A sister missionary’s 18 months in Tokyo, drawn one page a day. Sincere and funny, and the first missionary journal published as a graphic novel.
Find the book ↗
Edited by Theric Jepson and Mike Laughead
Served
Short comics by returned missionaries, some funny and some tender. Proceeds go to charity: water.
Get the book ↗
John A. Shaw
Oh Be Wise
A collection of clean, funny comics about missionary life, made with care packages in mind.
Get the book ↗Scripture in comics
The Book of Mormon, illustrated.
Pablo Smith
The Book of Mormon: A Graphic Novel
A cinematic retelling by a former Disney and DreamWorks animator who served a mission. Volume 1 covers 1 Nephi 1–4.
Get the book ↗
Michael Stewart
Book of Mormon Comics
The Book of Mormon illustrated word for word, beginning with 1 Nephi.
Read it ↗These are independent creators. We’re not connected to them and don’t earn anything from these links, and listing them isn’t an endorsement by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Know of a missionary comic we missed? Tell us at crew@missionarytreasures.com.