Gary Leib

Gary David Leib Leib was a founding member of the Grammy Award-nominated band Rubber Rodeo, which recorded two albums for Mercury Records. He created original music for independent and feature films, including the critically acclaimed Ironweed.

Biography Leib was born in Chicago, Illinois, the eldest of four children, and grew up in Lincolnwood. His influences growing up included EC Comics, MAD, and Zap Comix. He went to Niles North High School and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Twinkle has produced animation and titles for film, TV series, music videos, and websites. 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, often working in collaboration with his old partner Doug Allen. (American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.) Leib made the animated end closing credits for the film American Ultra.

Leib also designed a popular line of promotional toys for The Hershey Company.

Leib taught in the graduate computer animation program at the School of Visual Arts and the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. He was the 2016–2017 artist-in-residence at Fairmont State University.

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. SUSS released three albums, the most recent in December 2020. He was survived by his wife, the painter Judy Glantzman, their daughter Lila, and his three siblings Beth, Alan, and Joel.