Hi there, I’m Laurel Lynn Leake (she/they) and I’m a white, queer, and disabled artist who makes comics and tries to take care of myself even though it’s hard. I love art that blurs the boundaries between genres and mediums, that expresses the unspeakable, and that recognizes those forced to live invisibly. I’ve worked in ink, pencil, paint, and collage to make sci-fi/speculative fiction, fantasy, poetry, non-fiction, and abstract comics, and am always up for experimenting. I’ve been designing and self-publishing comics of all kinds, on paper and online, since I was a teenager (around 2005).

I earned a BFA in Interdisciplinary Art and a BA in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2010, and after graduating from the Center for Cartoon Studies with my Masters in Fine Arts in 2013, now live in occupied Narragansett and Niantic land, in Providence, RI. My work has appeared in Velour: The Drag Magazine, INK BRICK, Maple Key Comics, Inaction Comics, and CBA: UN/COMICS, and I’ve been self-publishing for over a decade. I often collaborate with my partner and fellow artist, Kimball Anderson (they/them), and we release new work through audience support on our shared Patreon, Counterintuitive Comics.