Brooklyns Last Secret

Beginning at the stroke of midnight on January 1 2014 and ending on January 1 2015 Leslie Stein drew a comics page a night. Fueled by an urge toward visual and narrative experimentation and made possible by serendipitous bouts of insomnia Stein has combined words and images in a series of comic strips paintings and collages that reflect her life. BrightEyed at Midnight collects the best of the 365 pages she made in 2014. By turns funny unsettling charming improvisational honest and evocative Stein explores her 1980s childhood dreams travel artist’s block drinking recording and playing rock shows and bar patrons along with quiet moments of introspection and loneliness in the most exciting city in America. Drawn in pen and ink and vibrant watercolors and written in a minimalist poetic cadence BrightEyed at Midnight is a thoughtful meditative visual diary from an acclaimed cartoonist.