Your ol' pal Les McClaine

@lesmcclaine.com

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Everyone's favorite all-American boy Artist of Books of Clash, Old Souls, the Tick, the Middleman, Jonny Crossbones, Highway 13, and I'm sure some other stuff https://lesmcclaine.com https://evilspacerobot.com https://jonnycrossbones.com

a map of Portland, Oregon
Me at the top of Horse Thief Butte in Washington
a CSP mannequin in a pained pose, one foot raised up, toes pointed, as the rest of the body fails to react to the movement. This pose is titled "Fighting_13"
B. Kliban's famous cartoon of a cop kicking a blind man into the street to make way for a well-dressed man accompanied by two underwear models(?). The cop says "Out of the way, you swine! A cartoonist is coming!"
Today's NYT Strands game, completed. The theme was "Knicks knack" and the answers were Garden Party, Courtside, Chant, Jumbotron, Marquee, and Rafters
a page of pencil art from Jonny Crossbones, showing only the backgrounds with no characters. Twelve panels of an empty library.
My profile header. It's got my avatar, a little cartoon self-portrait, with a banner made from a portion of the cover of my in-progress Jonny Crossbones print collection. The text reads: "Everyone's favorite all-American boy "Artist of Books of Clash, Old Souls, the Tick, the Middleman, Jonny Crossbones, Highway 13, and I'm sure some other stuff. "lesmcclaine.com evilspacerobot.com jonnycrossbones.com"
A weird little niche in my living room that I have turned into a computer station with shelving.
Today's Beetle Bailey cartoon, featuring a fox that appears to have been drawn by a precocious eight-year-old
a lineup of cartoon animal teenagers. A pig girl, a rhino boy, a turtle boy, a giraffe girl, a mouse girl, an elephant girl, and a dog boy
a reddit post from r/StarWars: "I think Attack of the Clones is my favourite movie."
A flag featuring a smiling frog on a tie-dyed rainbow field flying on the pole outside my house
a smiley strokes its chin, points, and nods
my cat Smokey enjoying the sunshine on my front porch
a framed woodblock print of a frog eating ramen, hanging on my hallway wall
humanoid animals in street clothes. A camel, a fox, and an alligator
a photograph of the produced figurine, the Phantom running forward with his fist in front of him.
Yesterday's LA Times crossword. Clue: "Cowboy Bebop" genre. Answer: ANIME
Rockwell's sketch for "Murder in Mississippi".
Two men, a Black man on his knees and a white man on his feet, supporting the first man, look to the right. There is blood visible on the shoulder and hand of the man on his knees. Menacing shadows stretch into the composition from the right.
my wall mounted tv and cabinet in my living room
Today's LA Times crossword. Highlighted clue: LP or 45. Highlighted solution: VINYLRECORD
Tuesday's LA Times crossword. Highlighted clue: Audiophile's collection. Highlighted answer: VINYLS
A sunny day in Lexington. People sit on a bench under a small tree on a brick sidewalk. Two-story commercial buildings are visible across the street.
Amazon offering the Mickey Mouse vol 9 and 10 box set for $2400.00
The actual cover of Spider-Man: Rock Reflections of a Superhero, featuring a nice watercolor piece by John Romita depicting Peter Parker somberly looking in the mirror and seeing Spider-Man
The title page of the Shit Kids. The title is big in the middle, and below is a drawing of two surly teenage duck boys.
The first panel of a comic. A staircase down into a basement bar. It's raining, and there is a sign reading "The Bar Sinister." The title "32 Exposures" sits at the bottom of the panel.
Two pages from Rabbit Hash
It’s Jubilee, as I drew her a couple years ago
A Vornado Air Circulator, manufactured by the Vornadofan Company since 1945
A list of the top ten films of 1986 by box office domestic gross. Back to School is in 6th place with $91,258,000, and the execrable Ferris Bueller's Day Off is in 10th place with $70,136,369.
Mad Dawg Super Spew Bubble Chew
Good & Fruity
The view from my back deck. We see over the roof of my little shed into a small forest of maples. This is all in Portland city limits! I-205 is about a half mile over that way
In my hammock with a tasty orange cream soda
The top of my water bottle, securely closed
A Stanley IceFlow cup with a flippy straw
My last four watches from Letterboxd. Project Hail Mary (2026), Home Sweet Home Rebirth (2025), Silent Zone (2025) and This is Not a Test (2025)
A view of Mt Hood from the Timberline Lodge
a panel from Jonny Crossbones. Jonny and Gretchen have breakfast together while talking.
A little sheet I made listing the volumes of Fantagraphics' Carl Barks Library and whether or not I own them
My cover design for Jonny Crossbones: Dead Man at Devil's Cove with the new title font I spent the last several days designing
My cat Smokey, standing innocently on my desk next to my Cintiq
A redesign of the Filmation Ghostbusters I did a few weeks ago
A panel from Jonny Crossbones using my new font for lettering
an open window in Fontlab. I'm aligning various letters.
today's Hi and Lois "comic"
An alphabet of block letters, created in preparation for making a new typeface
The Minuteman statue in Fallout 4
The Concord Minuteman statue, at the Old North Bridge, where the Minutemen used guerilla tactics to turn back the Redcoats during the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775
The Lego Tintin Rocket on a shelf in my office
a sketchbook page from 1997 working out my initial idea for Jonny Crossbones' design
Jonny Crossbones on the edge of a rocky beach, looking at a crab in a tide pool
a comics spread from my comic The Shit Kids
black and white art from Jonny Crossbones
Today's Hi and Lois comic. Panel three is merely an enlarged copy-paste of a part of panel two and I don't like that at all.
a panel from Jonny Crossbones. A gala in a natural history museum
a lineup of sixteen character designs for Jonny Crossbones: Down Hanover Wash
The major cast of my next Jonny Crossbones story, from across three different time periods!