annus horribilis.Lifelong artist and longtime nonprofit leader Leslie Ewing, 71, created the third installment of the tradition.
An Oakland resident since 1981, Ewing, a lesbian, stepped down last year as executive director of Berkeley's LGBTQ-focused Pacific Center for Human Growth."I've been a cartoonist all my life, going back to childhood," said Ewing.She drew comics for her school newspaper and later was part of the queer underground comix scene in the 1980s.