Leslie Stein

Leslie Stein, aka larrybear, spends most of her time drawing comics, listening to old time radio shows and playing records in her home in Brooklyn, NY. She also plays guitar in the band Prince Rupert's Drops.

“Leslie Stein’s comics inhabit a charming and semi-autobiographical (in the most ‘semi’ sense of the word) yet surreal, insular world where her best friend and closest confidant is an acoustic guitar.  What’s not to relate to?” — Peter Bagge

“Early in the 20th Century, a beautiful cartoonist, Marcel Duchamp, pretended to be a marginally attractive woman and spent considerable time watching dust accumulate. Early in the 21st Century a beautiful cartoonist, Leslie Stein, pretended to be a funky dweeb and spent considerable time counting sand. Catch my drift?” — Gary Panter

“Visual inventiveness combined with a high level of wit.” — Michael Kupperman

“Leslie Stein’s comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.” — Jim Woodring

“Part cute, part kind of creepy art-wise. The writing is serious and smart, slightly contradicting what the art is saying, but this makes the work good. And real. And slightly creepy.” — Gilbert Hernandez

See also:
• Blog posts relating to Leslie Stein on FLOG! The Fantagraphics Blog