Lee Dean is a cartoonist, teacher and artist based in Brooklyn.

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 received their BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2015 and their MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts in 2026.

They are represented by Paloma Hernando of Ayesha Pande Literary.

Full CV available upon request.

Publications:

The Girl Who Flew Away, Iron Circus Comics, 2025

“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