Gary Leib has won wide praise for his work as an animator and cartoonist, including a 1994 Harvey nomination for his comic book Idiotland, a two-man anthology co-created by Leib and Doug Allen,  which ran for seven issues  from 1993-1994.   The two collaborated on a number of stories in the fund-raising anthology comic Legal Action Comics, volume 1, published in 2001.

 

His illustrations and cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Musician Magazine, The New York Observer, Raw, Blab and as weekly features in The New York Press for many years. Leib, together with Allen, was a founding member of the Grammy-nominated band Rubber Rodeo, which recorded two albums for Mercury Records.  He has also created original music for independent and feature films, including the critically acclaimed Ironweed.  Leib also designed a popular line of promotional toys for The Hershey Company.

 

Leib created his animation studio Twinkle in 1993.  It has produced animation and titles for tilm, TV series, music videos and websites.  Since 2008, Leib has created a series of short animations, accompanied by jazz selections, about New York City, which are hosted on the New York Times website.

 

Leib is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught in the graduate computer animation program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.