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Tim Barela is an American gay cartoonist known for creating the comic strip Leonard & Larry. The strip was first published in a 1984 issue of Gay Comix and has since been featured in The Advocate and Frontiers magazines. The comic series has been collected in four volumes by Palliard Press and one volume by Rattling Good Yarns. Tim Barela began his career as a cartoonist in 1976, working on various comic strips for different magazines. One of his strips, called Leonard & Larry, featuring a gay character, was first featured in Gay Comix and went on to be published in multiple magazines and even performed as a play. His collection, Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Tim Barela became a fundamentalist Christian in high school, but later began attending a Metropolitan Community Church congregation in 1980. He is a former avid motorcyclist and has a passion for Western wear, often incorporating it into his comic strips. Barela also considers himself part of the Bear community and is a fan of it. The Leonard and Larry comic strip, created by Tim Barela, has been published in several issues of Gay Comix and received praise for its representation of diverse characters and queer family structures. The strip is also known for its attention to detail in depicting facial hair. Leonard & Larry has been published in four different collections, each with a different theme and release year. The collections are Domesticity Isn't Pretty (1993), Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead (1996), Excerpts from the Ring Cycle in Royal Albert Hall (2000), and How Real Men Do It (2003).