Leib was a founding member of Rubber Rodeo in 1980 with RISD friends Doug Allen,[2] Bob Holmes, Barc Holmes, and Trish Milliken. Leib played keyboards.
Leib and Allen's Idiotland, which ran for seven issues in 1993–1994, was nominated for a 1994 Harvey Award for Best New Series. In addition to Idiotland, Leib and Allen collaborated on a number of stories in the fund-raising anthology comic Legal Action Comics volume 1, published in 2001. Leib also contributed to David Greenberger's Duplex Planet Illustrated[2] and the 1995 award-winning comic jam, The Narrative Corpse.
Leib created his animation studio Twinkle in 1993;[6] Twinkle has produced animation and titles for film, TV series, music videos, and websites.[5] From 1993 until his death, Leib created a series of short animations, accompanied by jazz, about New York City, which were hosted on the New York Times website, a network ID for MTV, and a documentary for PBS. He created the animated sequences in the film American Splendor,[2][7] often working in collaboration with his old partner Doug Allen.[8] (American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.)[9] Leib made the animated end closing credits for the film American Ultra.[10]
Former Rubber Rodeo bandmates Leib and Bob Holmes performed in a new music project named SUSS, which has been referred to as "ambient country" music.[14] SUSS released three albums, the most recent in December 2020.[6]
Leib died of a heart attack[2] on March 19, 2021, aged 65.[15] He was survived by his wife, the painter Judy Glantzman, their daughter Lila,[2] and his three siblings Beth, Alan, and Joel.[7]
Bibliography
The Art of Cartooning with FLASH (with Daniel Gray and John Kuramoto) (Sybex, 2001) ISBN0-7821-2913-7
