Name Tim Barela | Role Cartoonist | |
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Books How Real Men Do it: The Fourth Leonard & Larry Collection Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Humor | ||
Tim Barela (born in Los Angeles, California), is an acclaimed gay cartoonist, best known for his creation of the comic strip Leonard & Larry. The Leonard & Larry characters first appeared in a 1984 issue of Gay Comix, then were later featured in The Advocate and [[Frontiers (magazine)|Frontiers]] magazines. The comic series is collected in four volumes published by Palliard Press.
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Personal information
Barela is a former avid motorcyclist.
Career
Barela began working as a cartoonist in the mid-1970s. He came out of the closet along and brought his career along in the 1980s by creating the comic strip Leonard & Larry, named for its two gay main characters.
Beginning in 1984, Leonard & Larry appeared in several issues of the anthology title Gay Comix, including its own one-issue Gay Comix Special in 1990. It was also published in the national news magazine Frontiers for many years. The strip was part of Out of the Inkwell, a play presented in 1994 by San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros.
The Leonard & Larry collection Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead was a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award in the Humor category.
Books
Leonard & Larry has been released in four different collections which include: