About
b. 1986, HK.
Lee Dean (formerly M. Dean) is a cartoonist, teacher and artist based in the Hudson Valley.
They have been working in visual storytelling, zines and comics since 2013 and are the creator of the webcomic, The Girl Who Flew Away and the graphic novel I Am Young, which was published by Fantagraphics in 2018. Lee was the inaugural recipient of the Creators for Creators grant, as well as a 2021 Artist Fellow for the New York Foundation for the Arts.
They are available for freelance work, full CV available upon request.
Publications:
“Bromeliads,” Now #6: The New Comics Anthology, Fantagraphics, 2019
I Am Young, Fantagraphics, 2018
“Fear & Fascination,” New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Iron Circus Comics, 2017
Recognition :
Nominated: “Outstanding Mini-Comic” Small Press Expo Ignatz Awards, 2023
New York Foundation for the Artist Fellow for Fiction, 2021
Shortlisted: The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Webcomic of the Year, 2019
Inaugural Recipient of the Creators for Creators Grant, 2017
Nominated: “Promising New Talent” Small Press Expo Ignatz Awards, 2015
