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cartoonist 🌼 they/he 🏳️‍⚧️ [email protected] leedeancomics.com comics: http://leedean.itch.io the girl who flew away: https://www.cbsd.com/9781638991397/the-girl-who-flew-away patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leedean

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · May 14

officially launching my patreon with my first patron-only post! it’s the first couple of finished pages i have and some writing on them, with more to come. tiers are at $1 & $3, both include full access to my process blog for this book. check it out and please share! www.patreon.com/leedean?utm_...

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Sep 3

new patreon post! i’m all out of finished pages, but will be doing a lot of pencils over this semester. :) www.patreon.com/leedean

lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 31

casual fashions

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 30

aww, i’m glad i could provide a good reading experience! 🥹 thank you!!

Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · Aug 30

I always post about *buying* comics, but not as much about actual *reading* them, so: I really loved this one by @leedean.bsky.social (and nice work on paper choices by Iron Circus!). Great cartooning and I couldn’t put it down; kept me up a few nights for “just one more page.”

Cover and back cover of The Girl Who Flew Away by Lee Dean and published by Iron Circus Comix. It’s a lovely green with a woman (front) and a girl (back) underwater among flowers.

A spread of The Girl Who Flew Away— a woman in the water, hanging on the edge of the pool, talks with a gardener, squatting on land

Panels juxtaposing a budgie trapped in a cage with a woman crawling beside the railing pickets of a staircase. Spread from Lee Dean’s The Girl Who Flew Away.

A little girl and a dog walk beside a fence… the dog eventually disappears along with the colours and detail—what’s real and what’s imagined? Spread from Lee Dean’s The Girl Who Flew Away.

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 27

new pages up on patreon! these might be my last finished pages for a little bit, but i will be sharing some pencils next. check it out here! 🎶 www.patreon.com/leedean

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Warrior Art Camp @warriorartcamp.bsky.social · Aug 26

Rupa (@rupakoopatroopa.bsky.social)'s super fun comic pages from Lee Dean (@leedean.bsky.social)’s Intro to Graphic Storytelling & Comics (Sept 2023) 😍

Last spot left in Lee’s class starting this Sunday, August 31! 🤩

Learn more and register NOW via our website ✨ 🎉

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · Aug 25

Been a year. Time to repost this.

YOUR PORTFOLIO CRIT
THINGS I'D TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON
1 Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow
2 A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening clearer
3 Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Don't draw every panel like that?
4 This __ looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up
5 An establishing shot will help the reader understand where this takes place.
6 Find a life-drawing session to attend, or practice from photos online.
7 Show these pages to someone who doesn't know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you.
8. Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency.
9 You flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, & background with the same values. Create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light & dark.
10 there are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick.
11 these characters look like they're floating (or falling). Draw figures and bg from the same eye level.
12 Unless this will be a wordless comic, leave more room for the lettering

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 25

class starts this sunday! it’s open until then :)

Warrior Art Camp @warriorartcamp.bsky.social · Aug 25

Last spot available in Lee Dean (@leedean.bsky.social)'s previously-filled Intro to Graphic Storytelling & Comics class starting August 31⚡️ Register now via our website 🥳

This is your chance to learn how to start your own comics or develop your existing story further under Lee’s guidance! 🎉

lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 21

forgot to share yesterday’s patreon update! check it out here: www.patreon.com/posts/135589...

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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · Aug 14

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA is nominated for an Ignatz Award, alongside truly outstanding company ❤️
www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-awards/

OUTSTANDING STORY Ignatz Nominees:
A Pillbug Story by Allison Conway (Black Panel Press)
Ballad for Black Cassandra by Olivia Stephens (Self-Published)
Boy Island by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket)
How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Persico (Tundra Book Group)
Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage by Spire Greenwood and Eve Greenwood (Self-Published)

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 15

morgan’s work in class was so good!!

Warrior Art Camp @warriorartcamp.bsky.social · Aug 15

Morgan's amazing comic pages from Lee Dean (@leedean.bsky.social)’s Intro to Graphic Storytelling & Comics (Mar 2023) 😍

Last spot left in Lee’s August 2025 class! Learn more and register NOW via our website 🎉

lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 15

anxiety doodle 🐶

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 13

was thinking about a gap i wanted to fill in the timeline i made, but then it wasn’t that different to the other entires. oh well lol.

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 13

www.patreon.com/leedean?utm_...

as promised, i’ve added some more background info for this on my patreon!

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 11

i can never keep the timeline of d’s history straight, but this is the general idea for now. it’s really just for my own reference. also, it’s probably obvious but decided to reveal d is trans 🏳️‍⚧️

i’ll post this on patreon with more info? if you’re interested in seeing that, it’s patreon.com/leedean

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 11

unfortunately probably won’t do this for beatriz or virgil! it’s too much work, haha

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Warrior Art Camp @warriorartcamp.bsky.social · Aug 10

Last spot left in Lee Dean (@leedean.bsky.social)'s Intro to Graphic Storytelling & Comics class starting August 31⚡️

Learn more and register now via our website 🥳

Learn how to start your own comics or develop your existing story further under Lee’s guidance!🎉

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 7

new finished pages up on patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/135026...

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 6

1969
stoned out of our minds

1979
older but none the wiser

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 6

1969
stoned out of our minds

1979
older but none the wiser

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Jul 27

here is an 8-page comic i finished about a month ago, you can read it in full here: leedeancomics.com/passing-thro...
please be aware it has a pretty graphic self-harm depiction. this was originally going to just go on itch, but that doesn't seem to be so great right now.

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Jul 31

drew this for fun 🌙✋✨

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 4

doodle with kitties 🐈‍⬛

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lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 4

d is essentially homeless within the narrative of the comic, but here is a moment before they got kicked out of their place lol

lee @leedean.bsky.social · Aug 4

doodle with kitties 🐈‍⬛

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