Background
He grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he worked in the public library.
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Les McClaine
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Education
After graduating from high school, Les attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he majored in sequential art, and graduated cum laude.
Career
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 Manitoba, written and co-created by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and published by Viper Comics.
In 2008 it made its debut as a television series The Middleman (television series).
He also worked on The Tick the New Series from New England Comics. Les has also been occasional freelance contributor to The Portland Mercury newspaper as an illustrator.
Foreign nearly 10 years Les has been working on, a webcomic. In 2013 McClaine began working as a character designer for Fox"s Axe Cop (television series).
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Eisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the Comics Industry's equivalent of the Oscar Awards.The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the Comics Industry's equivalent of the Oscar Awards.