Barbara Yelin (born 26 July 1977, Munich) is a German cartoonist who has won several awards in Germany including the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis, Max & Moritz Prize, and the Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis.

[3] In 2014, her story Irmina about a fellow traveler during the Nazi Germany period, was also published by Reprodukt, with which she also covered some of her own family history.

In 2018, Carlsen Verlag published Die Unheimlichen, Yelin's adaptation of Das Wassergespenst von Harrowby Hall in the series edited by Isabel Kreitz.

In May 2022, But I live was published by the University of Toronto Press, in which Yelin talks about remembrance, based on the life of Holocaust survivor Emmie Arbel.

[9] In 2012, Yelin was appointed visiting professor for comics and graphic novels at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar.