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Kevin Lenagh
(born July 10, 1953)

Artist of Domino Chance comics in the 1980s, illustrator and writer of "Contacting Aliens" with David Brin, a handbook of David Brin's Uplift species, published by Bantam Books in 2001, and VenturaLand comic strip parodying then-governor Jesse Ventura for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 2001 and 2002.

In 1979 the independent comic book industry was just starting. Cerebus the Aardvark has just put out their first issues. StarReach had published 5 or 6 issues. Domino Chance came out in early 1981, originally to be a parody of Han Solo. The plots ended up being variations of Rockford Files-style stories. Kevin,looking at the James Garner series, compared it to Bugs Bunny cartoons, protagonist gets in trouble in the first couple of minutes and spends the rest of the story making fun of the antagonist while getting out of trouble. Domino Chance was Jim Rockford/Bugs Bunny. Arnie Zoots was Jim's detective pal Dennis. In 1986 Kevin and his partner Sandra's banner business had gotten too big to allow Sandra time to publish Domino Chance.

In 1989 Kevin proposed the idea of an Uplift handbook to David Brin, showcasing the dozens of sentient alien species David had named or described in the three Uplift books, Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War. David was in the midst of writing the next Uplift series. Kevin researched 150 species named in the books and over the course of the next twelve years did black and white pen illustrations of them all as well as contributed to writing half the book.

In 2001 Kevin got the opportunity to start an editorial comic strip based on then-governor Jesse Ventura. It started in January of 2001 and ran through December of 2002, appearing once a week on the Sunday editorial page of the (then) St. Paul Pioneer Press. Ron Clark was his original editor.

External Links
 * Minnesota Pioneer Press / St. Paul Pioneer Press
 * David Brin
 * Kevin Lenagh