Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Lebrun entered the comic strip field in 1975 with Rolling with Roger in the Tampa Neighbor newspaper.
Almost immediately after taking the helm, Lebrun began to modernize it by updating Dagwood's wardrobe, replacing dial phones with touch-tone phones, adding computer terminals to Dagwood's place of work and replacing paper charts with digital presentations.
[2] In spite of these changes, Lebrun kept the appearance of the strip close to the style of previous Blondie veteran artist Jim Raymond.
Originally, he employed the conventional tools and materials used by earlier Blondie artists: steel pen points (originally Gillot 1290s, later Hunt 103 or 104s for the line work and filed-down Speedball A-2s for lettering), Strathmore two-ply plate finish paper and Pelikan drawing ink.
By January 2002, Lebrun made the strip's production fully digital, abandoning paper, pencil and ink in favor of the PowerPC G4.