| Ron Cobb | |
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| Born | 1937 Los Angeles, California |
Ron Cobb (born 1937) is an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West
By the age of 18, with no formal training in graphic illustration, Cobb was working as an animation "inbetweener" artist for Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Tweening, short for in-betweening is the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company: Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner was established He progressed to becoming a breakdown artist on the animation feature Sleeping Beauty (1959). (This was the last Disney film to have cels inked by hand. )
After Sleeping Beauty was completed in 1957, Disney laid off Cobb and he spent the next three years in various jobs — mail carrier, assembler in a door factory, sign painter's assistant — until he was drafted in 1960 into the US Army. For the next two years he delivered classified documents around San Francisco, then, after signing up for an extra year to avoid assignment to the infantry, was sent to Vietnam in 1963 as a draughtsman for the Signal Corps. On his discharge, Cobb began freelancing as an artist. He began to contribute to the Los Angeles Free Press in 1965. The Los Angeles Free Press (often called “the Freep ” and "the LAFP"
Edited and published by Art Kunkin, the "Freep", as it was known, was one of the first of the underground newspapers of the 1960s, noted for its radical politics. Cobb's editorial/political cartoons were a celebrated feature of the Freep, and appeared regularly throughout member newspapers of the Underground Press Syndicate. The Underground Press Syndicate, commonly known as UPS and later known as the Alternative Press Syndicate or APS was a network of countercultural newspapers and However, although he was regarded as one of the finest political cartoonists of the mid-1960s to early 1970s, Cobb made very little money from the cartoons and was always looking for work elsewhere.
Among other projects, Cobb designed the cover for Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album, After Bathing at Baxter's. Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the Psychedelic rock movement After Bathing at Baxter's was released in 1967 and is the third album by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane. He also contributed design work for the cult film, Dark Star (1973) (he drew the original design for the exterior of the Dark Star spaceship on a Pancake House napkin). Dark Star is a 1974 Sci-fi Tongue-in-cheek comedy Motion picture directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon
His cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s are collected in RCD-25 (1967) and Mah Fellow Americans (1968) (both Sawyer Press), and Raw Sewage (1971) and My Fellow Americans (1971) (both Price Stern and Sloan). None of these volumes remains in print.
In 1972, Cobb moved to Sydney, Australia. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Independent publishers Wild & Woolley published a "best of" collection of the earlier cartoon books, The Cobb Book in 1975. Wild & Woolley is an Australian Book publisher founded in 1974 by Michael Wilding and Pat Woolley. A follow-up volume, Cobb Again, appeared in 1978.
In 1981, Colorvision, a large-format, full-colour monograph appeared, including much of his design work for the films Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), and Conan the Barbarian (1982), the first feature for which he received the credit of Production Designer. Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (originally released as Star Wars) is a 1977 Space opera Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland Cimmeria) is a Fictional character often associated with Cobb has also contributed production design to the films The Last Starfighter (1984) and Leviathan (1989), as well as conceptual designs to other features, including Real Genius (1985), Back to the Future (1985), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Total Recall (1990), True Lies (1994), The Sixth Day (2000), Cats & Dogs (2001), Southland Tales (2006), and the Australian feature Garbo which he directed. The Last Starfighter is a 1984 Science fiction Adventure film directed by Nick Castle. Leviathan (1989 is a Science fiction Horror film about a hideous creature that stalks and kills a group of people in a sealed environment in a similar Real Genius is a 1985 Comedy film starring Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret. Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction Comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg. This article is about the film for the video games see Aliens (Square computer game and Aliens (arcade game. The Abyss is a Science fiction film that was written and directed by James Cameron in 1989. Total Recall is a 1990 Academy Award -winning American Science fiction film. For the video game see True Lies (video game. True Lies is a 1994 action - Comedy film. The 6th Day is a 2000 Action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cats & Dogs is a 2001 American Comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman. Southland Tales is a 2006 Science fiction / Drama / Black comedy Film, written and directed by Richard Kelly. Cobb contributed the initial story for Night Skies, an earlier, darker version of E.T. Steven Spielberg offered him the opportunity to direct this scarier sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind until problems arose over special effects that required a major rewrite. For the 2007 film about the Phoenix Lights, see Night Skies (film Night Skies was a sci-fi Horror film This article is about the 1982 film For the term "ET" which redirects here see ET. While Cobb was in Spain working on Conan the barbarian, Spielberg supervised the rewrite into the more personal E. T. and ended up directing it himself. Cobb later received some net profit participation.
During the early '90s, Ron worked with Rocket Science Games. Rocket Science Games was a Video game developer that created games for consoles and computers from 1993 to 1997 His designs can be seen most notably in "Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine" (1994) and "The Space Bar" (1997), in which he designed all the characters. The Space Bar is part of the Graphical Adventure genre for personal computers co-developed by Boffo Games and published by Rocket Science Games [1][2]
Cobb also co-wrote with his wife, Robin Love, one of the (1985–1987) Twilight Zone episodes. The Twilight Zone is an American Television Anthology series created by Rod Serling.
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- MobyGames, "The Space Bar," Adam Baratz, Jan 02, 2001. The Ecology Flag was a cultural symbol used in the seventies in the United States by early environmentalists. This is a list of notable Editorial cartoonists of past and present sorted by nationality
- Ron Cobb's official web site
- Wild & Woolley, publishers of Cobb's books
- Ron Cobb at the Internet Movie Database
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