The Complete Leonard & Larry Collection

Tim Barela's Leonard & Larry are back! The Complete Leonard & Larry Collection contains every Leonard & Larry strip, from their first appearance in Gay Comix, to The Advocate and Frontiers magazine. Strip creator Tim Barela gave voice to a generation of LGBTQ people. Whether we were gay, straight, into music, or into leather, we could see our lives mirrored in the sometimes crazy but always loving Leonard & Larry universe.

The Complete Leonard & Larry Collection contains all the strips from the long out-of-print previous collections of Tim Barela's work: Domesticity Isn't Pretty, Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead, Excerpts from the Ring Cycle in Royal Albert Hall, and How Real Men Do It. Also in this collection are cartoons from Mountain Man and the never seen before Grizzly 'N' Ted series. The Complete Leonard & Larry Collection features forewords by internationally respected animation historian Charles Solomon and Gay Comix pioneer and pop culture historian, Andy Mangels, plus an introduction by Tim Barela.

"Sometimes you just want to sink into a warm and fuzzy sitcom...A world where there are no problems that can't be resolved with a kiss...where the d�cor is both tidier and more fashionable than your own...where the faux-bickering couple are decked out in leather chaps, and possessed of resplendent facial hair...and that's when you turn to Leonard and Larry. Tim Barela's masterful comic strip offered up an intricately textured story that never failed to melt my late twentieth century cares away."

- Alison Bechdel, award-winning cartoonist and author

"It only takes a glance to know that Tim Barela is a great cartoonist, but he's more than that. He's a pioneering writer and illustrator, the creator of the first wacky sitcom family in which Lucy and Ricky are both men. With beards! And kids! And situations! And they age and expand and get you involved. The hilarity of Leonard & Larry predates actual tv fodder by decades and is vastly more rewarding, because it's also genuine."

- Robert Triptow, cartoonist, writer, Gay Comix editor, and author of Class Photo

"Long before there was Modern Family, way before there was Will and Grace, years before there were Dykes to Watch Out For; hell-well before there was The Bird Cage . . . there was Tim Barela's magnificent Leonard & Larry comic strip. Forget for a moment that the characters are gay, and just consider them as fully flesh-and-blood PEOPLE, people you come to know deeply and lovingly, made out of nothing other than ink and paper and Mr. Barela's extraordinary mind and draughtsmanship. Okay, now remember that they're gay, and that Barela started this whole thing in the early 1980s, and then you have something truly revolutionary. I was relatively late to the table on this, when friends gave me a copy of Domesticity Isn't Pretty for a birthday present in the early 1990s. I was stunned-not by just how attracted I was to them (GRRRR!), but by how much I cared about them. And their families and friends. And how much I wanted to be a part of their world. Only great authors can do that, disappear behind their art so that you forget for a moment that they're creating it all. And so, here we now have all of it, in one volume. Bravo. I look forward to meeting and hanging with them and loving them all over again... Thank you, Tim Barela, for this gift."

- Chip Kidd, graphic artist and author

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