Episode 201 - Robert Leighton

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast · May 1, 2025 · 1h 37m

New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton joins us on the second half of the podcast this week.

Robert started drawing cartoons at an early age and started a comic strip, called Carl & Goober, when he was eight. The strip was very much influenced by Walt Kelly's, Pogo and Robert even used one of its characters in a strip he did for the Northwestern University Humor magazine. His first cartoon in the New Yorker was published in 2002 and he has been a frequent contributor ever since. He is also a well know puzzle maker, starting his puzzling career in the late 1980s at GAMES Magazine.

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