Fueled by insomnia and an experimental spirit, Leslie Stein drew a page a night during 2014. The result is a series of comic strips, paintings, and collages that explore her childhood, her bar patrons, Jimi Hendrix, travel, artist's block, drinking, rock shows, her siblings, amusement parks, moments of introspection, and loneliness. Bright-Eyed at Midnight is a meditative visual diary from an acclaimed cartoonist.
Leslie Stein was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000, moved to New York and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2004. Her early interest in comics and cartooning was revitalized around the turn of the century by her introduction to such independent/alternative cartoonists as Jim Woodring and Gilbert Hernandez. She has self-published her own comics series, Eye of the Majestic Creature, since 2005, the short stories from which have been published in two Majestic Creature collections to date. She plays guitar and sings in the band Prince Rupert’s Drops. She lives in Brooklyn.
