Leslie and Brianne

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About

Leslie and Brianne is a series of webcomics, animations and drawings created by artist Keith Stack. The series depicts struggling lesbian couple Leslie and Brianne, the former portrayed as hot-headed, the latter portrayed as derpy and naive. The comic often makes jokes about technology, gaming, pop culture and meme culture. The characters first appeared in a 2005 Newgrounds animation titled Wacky Lesbian Hour, which continued as a webcomic between 2010 and 2011. In 2022, Stack revived the characters for a new webcomic on Twitter, inspiring fan art and other content over the course of the year.

History

Wacky Lesbian Hour

The characters Leslie and Brianne, a lesbian couple that lives in Yonkers, New York, were created by artist Keith Stack as early as 2005. The first known appearance of the characters is an animation titled Wacky Lesbian Hour, uploaded to Newgrounds^[1] by Stack on September 19th, 2005, which gained over 100,000 views in 17 years (shown below). A second animation was created and reuploaded to YouTube.^[2]

In 2010, Stack began publishing Wacky Lesbian Hour as a webcomic on Blogspot. On December 19th, 2010, Stack posted the first Wacky Lesbian Hour comic to Blogspot,^[3] titled "Dinner for Dykes," consisting of nine pages. Stack posted a total of 20 Wacky Lesbian Hour pages, with the final page, a one-page comic titled "Tongue-Tied," being published to Blogspot^[4] on April 16th, 2011 (shown below). After Wacky Lesbian Hour ended, Stack continued to occasionally draw and animate Leslie and Brianne, posting two animations featuring the couple to Tumblr^[5]^[6] in 2014.

Twitter Webcomic

On February 25th, 2022, Stack posted a new comic featuring Leslie and Brianne to Twitter.^[7] In the comic, Brianne and Leslie are shown walking directly into the path of a train, too distracted by Twitter on their phones to notice, gaining over 7,000 likes and 490 retweets in six months (shown below).

Stack posted new comics featuring Leslie and Brianne to Twitter over the following months, earning the characters a new fanbase. On March 20th, Stack posted a comic to Twitter^[8] referencing the couple's first Newgrounds animation, gaining over 15,000 likes in five months. On March 27th, Stack posted a comic to Twitter^[9] that gained over 10,000 likes in a comparable span of time (shown below).

On April 5th, 2022, Stack posted a comic to Twitter^[10] referencing the viral NSFW Bowling Animations, gaining over 30,000 likes and 2,700 retweets in four months (shown below).

On June 20th, Stack posted an original animation to Twitter^[11] where the two characters introduce themselves and their character traits, gaining over 38,000 likes and 500,000 views in two months (shown below).