Les McClaine

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Leslie “Les” McClaine was born September, 30 1977 in Ventura, CA to Andrew and Lynn McClaine. He grew up in the historic town of Lexington, Massachusetts, where he worked in the public library. After graduating from Highschool, Les attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he majored in Sequential Art, and graduated Cum Laude. Following college, Les created the comic book series, Highway 13 for Slave Labor Graphics, which ran for ten issues. Around the same time, Les produced the popular web-comic Life With Leslie, an autobiographical comic strip that was later published in a collection titled Repeat Until Death.

Currently, Les resides in Portland, Oregon and his work can be seen in the comic book, The Middle Man, written and co-created by the talented Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and published by Viper Comics. Les also has a graphic novel coming out through Dark Horse Comics, titled Jonny Crossbones, which also appeared as a web-comic on his website, http://www.evilspacerobot.com

In 2005 Les was nominated for an Eisner Award in the Best Digital Comic category for Jonny Crossbones.