Tony Fleecs began his comics career in 2006 with In My Lifetime, an autobiographical comic that landed critical notice immediately — featured twice in Wizard Magazine and reviewed in the Comic Buyer’s Guide. He followed it with contributions to high-profile anthologies including Postcards: True Stories that Never Happened, which was nominated for the 2008 Eisner and Harvey awards for best anthology.
His early professional work brought him into the orbit of writer Josh Fialkov, with whom he produced the Li’l Firebreather backup stories for Phil Hester’s second Firebreather series at Image Comics, and later co-wrote and illustrated Jeff Steinberg: Champion of Earth for Oni Press — a slacker-comedy graphic novel about a thoroughly mediocre man chosen by aliens to compete in a contest for Earth’s fate.
The gig that put him in front of the largest audience of his early career was My Little Pony at IDW Publishing. He drew sixteen issues of the main series and produced over a hundred covers across the MLP line, along with cover work on Transformers, TMNT, Samurai Jack, Vampirella, and Miraculous. His MLP work eventually extended to animation: he became a staff writer on the Netflix series My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (2022–2023), bringing him into the TV production world alongside his comics work.
His breakthrough as a creator-owned comics voice came with Stray Dogs, a five-issue horror miniseries he wrote with art by Trish Forstner, published by Image Comics in 2021. The logline — Lady and the Tramp meets Silence of the Lambs — translates the serial-killer thriller into the perspective of the dogs living with the killer, rendered in Don Bluth-influenced cartoon art that makes the horror more disturbing by contrast. Issue #1 went to four printings; the series has sold nearly one million copies across all formats.
Fleecs and Forstner followed Stray Dogs with a two-issue spinoff, Stray Dogs: Dog Days (2021–2022), expanding the backstories of supporting dogs from the original series. In 2024 they launched Feral at Image Comics — a horror series about indoor cats caught outside during a rabies outbreak, applying the Stray Dogs formula of cute-animal aesthetics wrapped around genuine dread. Feral Volume 1 received an American Library Association Outstanding Comics Award for Young Adults Series Honor Book (2025), and the series has run to at least four arcs.
In parallel, Fleecs co-created Local Man at Image Comics with writer Tim Seeley in 2023. The series runs as a flip book: a lead rural-noir story (pencilled by Fleecs) about a disgraced superhero named Jack Xaver who has crawled back to his Midwest hometown, paired with a superhero flashback section (drawn by Seeley) set in the wider Image Universe. Local Man was nominated for a Best New Series Eisner Award in 2024.
He has also published Time Shopper (2022), a creator-owned comedy about a man with a time machine who uses it to hunt down the best deals in history, and Uncanny Valley (BOOM! Studios, 2024), written by Fleecs with art by Dave Wachter, about a boy who looks real but is actually animated — which received an Eisner nomination in 2025. On the work-for-hire side, he has written for Marvel (The Thing #1–5, 2025; Wolverine tie-in work), DC (Super-Pets), and beyond.
He lives in Los Angeles.
