Cobb's cartoons cover ecology, racism, drugs, disasters, law and order, religion and outer space. It covers eight years of cartoons from the underground press.
Ron Cobb was born in 1937. Cartoonist/illustrator of social/political/environmental protest. Ron Cobb's kaleidoscopic career includes his early years doing covers for Famous Monsters magazine, his five year stint as a countercultural editorial cartoonist for the LA Free Press, his one year sojourn in Australia where he cartooned and painted, and finally his hugely successful life as a pre-production designer for science fiction/fantasy movies, a field in which he is still involved.