[NYTr] About Ron Cobb, the Cartoonist

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[Here's more about Ron Cobb, an expatriat California who has lived in
Sydney, Australia since 1972, and who did the great Thanksgiving in
America cartoon posted earlier. ]

Ron Cobb Designs
http://www.roncobbdesigns.com/Who.155.0.html

Ron Cobb, the artist, writer, film designer, and cartoonist lives in
Sydney, Australia with his Australian wife, Robin Love and 5 year old
son, Nicky, although you can often find him in Santa Monica,
California, (he was born and raised in Los Angeles).

His cartoons from the sixties and seventies are collected in several
out of print books: RCD-25 (1967) and Mah Fellow Americans (1968) were
published by Sawyer Press; Raw Sewage (1971) and My fellow Americans
(1971) were both published by Price Stern and Sloan.

After he moved to Sydney in 1972, he joined the independent publishers
Wild and Woolley and with them published a "best of" the earlier
cartoon books titled The Cobb Book in 1975. This was followed in 1978,
by Cobb Again.

A large-format monograph in full colour was published in 1981 titled
Colorvision. This book included much of his design work for the films
Star Wars, Alien and Conan the Barbarian the first feature for which he
received the credit, production designer.

In the last two decades, Ron Cobb has contributed production design to
the films Leviathan, The Last Starfighter, and the aforementioned Conan
the Barbarian, as well as conceptual designs to other features,
including Dark Star, Real Genius, Back to the Future, Aliens, The
Abyss, Total Recall, True Lies, The Sixth Day, Cats and Dogs, Firefly,
Southland Tales and the Australian feature Garbo which he directed. He
also contributed the initial story for Night Skies, an earlier, darker
version of ET, as well as co-wrote with Robin Love, one of the new
Twilight Zone episodes.

At present, he continues to work in film while preparing to resurrect
his editorial cartooning on this web site as, possibly, a series of
short animated clips.