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Robert Leighton is an American writer and artist, cartoonist, puzzle writer, illustrator, and humorist. He lives and works in New York City. His cartoons have appeared regularly in ''The New Yorker'' and other periodicals. In 1996, with Mike Shenk and Amy Goldstein, Leighton co-founded Puzzability, a puzzle-writing company. As part of Puzzability, Leighton has coauthored many books of puzzles, as well as puzzle-oriented Op-Ed pieces for the ''New York Times''. Asked why he creates cartoons and puzzles, two apparently different kinds of work, Leighton replied: "I think a puzzle is like a cartoon, like a joke, because the puzzle is the setup and the solution is the punch line. A good puzzle keeps you in suspense while you’re working on it, like a cartoon. And the ‘aha!’ is the equivalent of the laugh when a joke is resolved.”〔Northwestern (alumni magazine), A Puzzling Career by Cate Plys, 2006 () accessed June 13, 2013〕 ==Cartooning== Since 2002, Leighton has been a regular contributor of single-panel cartoons to ''The New Yorker''.〔 He has also created comic strips and humorous illustrated puzzles. In 2006, with his partners at Puzzability, Leighton wrote "The New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games" which used approximately 700 New Yorker cartoons and their captions as the basis for a variety of puzzle types.〔(), The New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games, accessed August 27, 2013, Amazon.com〕 Work that Leighton both wrote and drew has also appeared in the ''Wall Street Journal'',〔Wall Street Journal, page D4 "Pepper... And Salt", June 21, 2012〕 ''Games'',〔Games (magazine), masthead, page 4, listed as "Assistant Editor", June 1983〕 ''Nickelodeon Magazine'',〔Nickelodeon Magazine, page 33, section "Credits", listed under "Illustration 24"〕 ''Slate'',〔Slate, Robert Leighton: Articles by Robert Leighton, () Accessed June 14, 2013〕 and ''SpongeBob Comics.〔SpongeBob Comics, Issue 2, page 9, "Split Decision" "Story: Robert Leighton"〕 While he was at Northwestern University, Leighton wrote and drew a comic strip called "Banderooge".〔() Banderooge.com>About, accessed August 28, 2013〕 He also cofounded and edited the college humor magazine "Rubber Teeth."〔The Daily Writer, November 3, 1995, the NU LIFE section (NU = Northwestern University), "100 years of comic strips celebrated in display" by Liza Berger〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Leighton (cartoonist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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