Terminal Lance is a comic strip and website created in 2010 by Maximilian Uriarte that satirizes United States Marine Corps life.

Shortly after, the book was picked up by Little, Brown and Company and retitled The White Donkey: Terminal Lance, and was released on April 19, 2016.

[4] Maximilian's second full length graphic novel, Battle Born: Lapis Lazuli was published on July 28, 2020 by Little, Brown & Co.[5][6] Maximilian Uriarte is an American artist, comic writer, graphic novelist, and honorably discharged Marine.

After graduating high school and taking two years of general education classes at Portland Community College,[8] Uriarte enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at the age of 19 as an 0351 Assaultman.

He served two tours in the Iraq War as part of the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, the first in 2007-2008 (in the Al Zaidan region) and the second in 2009.