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| General info : | | Leo Aloysius Cullum (January 11, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey, USA – October 23, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA (aged 68)) was an American cartoonist, one of the more frequent contributors to The New Yorker with more than 800 gag cartoons published.
He started his drawing career after having served as a pilot in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and flying planes commercially for Trans World Airlines and American Airlines.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Cullum was raised in North Bergen, New Jersey and earned his undergraduate degree in 1963 from the College of the Holy Cross, where he majored in English literature. He joined the United States Marine Corps after graduating from college, earning a commission as a second Lieutenant. Upon completion of his flight training in Pensacola, Florida, Cullum deployed to Vietnam, where he flew more than 200 missions, mostly ground attacks in support of the infantry in addition to attacks on the Viet Cong supply lines on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
After completing his military service, Cullum became a pilot for TWA, which was later taken over by American Airlines, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. In between flights, he started doodling, continuing his early interest in drawing cartoons. His first sale was to Air Line Pilot Magazine.
Leo Cullum started drawing cartoons during layovers. His first one was published in Air Line Pilot Magazine in the mid seventies. Then he began selling his work to other publications, including True, Argosy , The Saturday Evening Post , and Sports Afield. Cullum’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1977.
Over his career with The New Yorker the magazine published 819 of his cartoons, many of which involved animals.
Cartoon editor Bob Mankoff called him "one of the most popular" cartoonists at The New Yorker during the 1980s and 1990s and "one of the most consistently funny cartoonists we ever had".
His final published cartoon appeared in the issue dated October 25, 2010.
His published books include collections about doctors and birds, with the respective punny titles of Suture Self and Tequila Mockingbird. Other books featured his cartoons about cats, dogs and business people.
A resident of Malibu, California, Cullum died of cancer at the age of 68 on October 23, 2010, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He was survived by his wife, Kathy, a former flight attendant whom he had met on a flight to Boston, as well as by his daughters Kaitlin Cullum and Kimberly Cullum, both of whom had been child actors. | |
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