# Rip r cobb **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 1, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-r-cobb/921951 "2020-10-01T07:36:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-r-cobb/921951/1 "2020-10-01T07:36:40Z")
[Ron Cobb - Cartoons (roncobb.net)](http://www.roncobb.net/cartoons.html) 1960’s counter-culture cartoonist who just disappeared from view. Went off to live in Sydney.Australia, and did commercial art ( ‘Back To The Future’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Conan the Barbarian’, ‘Alien’ etc.) I never did see an explanation of why he quite doing cartoons, or, really, why he quit doing interviews and moved to a foreign country, but clearly he was still earning a living. [Ron Cobb Dies: Production Designer And Cartoonist Known For ‘Back To The Future’, ‘Star Wars’ Was 83 (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/ron-cobb-dies-production-designer-and-cartoonist-known-for-back-to-the-future-star-wars-was-83/ar-BB19jSsw) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-r-cobb/921951/2 "2020-10-01T13:25:24Z")
Oh, man, hadn’t heard this. Cobb did a LOT of stuff. He designed aliens for **Star Wars** , right from the first film, then did the same for **The Last Starfighter**. He designed the ship in **Dark Star** , and an awful lot of other things in movies, especially fantastic cinema. He did biting political cartoons. He and his wife co-wrote a Twilight Zone episode. He created the widely-used Ecology Flag > **[Ecology Flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology_Flag)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Ecology Flag is a cultural symbol used primarily in the 1970s by American environmentalists. It is a symbol of people's commitment to clean up the environment. > Ron Cobb created an ecology symbol which he published on October 25, 1969 in the Los Angeles Free Press and then placed in the public domain. The symbol was formed by taking the letters "e" and "o", taken from the words "environment" and "organism", and putting them in superposition,... Cobb was one of those wide-ranging creators who influenced my life in multiple, yet largely hidden, ways. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-r-cobb/921951/3 "2020-10-02T12:56:37Z")
Here’s a webpage with some of Cobb’s political cartoons: > **[Ron Cobb - Cartoons](http://roncobb.net/cartoons.html)** > > Ron Cobb, Cartoonist, Film Designer, 300 cartoons, 40 films, Artwork and Design! I hadn’t realized that he did covers for Ackerman’s _Famous Monsters of Filmland_. I have that issue. Here’s more. I’ve got these issues of FMoF, too > **[63 Ron Cobb ideas | cartoonist, disney studios, graphic illustration](https://www.pinterest.com/paulgilbert3/ron-cobb/)** > > Apr 10, 2019 - Ron Cobb is an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director. By the age of 18, with no formal training in graphic illustration, Cobb was working as an animation "inbetweener" artist for Disney Studios in... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-r-cobb/921951/4 "2020-10-02T13:01:54Z")
More Cobb > **[Ron Cobb](https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cobb_ron.htm)** > > Ron Cobb was an American cartoonist who was mostly active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for his sharp and poignant political-social cartoons, published in underground newspapers all over the world. Later in his career he reinvented...