The two main characters in Les & May are a married couple entering their retirement years.

Les Mature has been working for 40 years and enthusiastically embraces retirement – early retirement in fact!

May Mature dreads retirement. She would gladly continue working if her employer of 20 years wasn’t forcing her into early retirement.

May, a Type A personality, adjusts to retirement by throwing herself into household projects “They never had time for” and trying to drag a reluctant Les along with her.

Les is more laid back and easy going – if he’s “going” at all. His ideal is a do-nothing retirement.

May is a health and fitness “freak.” Les is “addicted” to junk food and a sedentary lifestyle, except for golf – on a cart of course!

In spite of their many differences the two are a loving and devoted couple.

Les and May will be the only regular characters in the strip’s early stages, with cameo appearances by family and peers in the retirement set.

Author/Artist Larry Lewis wrote and drew the daily and Sunday comic strip “Campus Clatter,” distributed for seven years by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. A cartoonist and commercial artist for more than 60 years, his cartoons have appeared in many national and regional newspapers and magazines.