Cullum drew 819 cartoons for the magazine over 33 years, most of which were done on layovers since his "real" job was as a TWA and American Airlines pilot.
Cullum's fellow New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast wrote a postscript about him in a recent issue, which captured his sense of humor:
"According to his brother, Thomas, 'Leo has been funny since he was a little kid—he was kind of a humor prodigy.' At the dinner table one night during a summer vacation when Leo was seven and Thomas nine, their father complained that his stomach had got a little sunburned. Leo said, 'Well, you know, Dad, things that are closest to the sun burn first.' Fortunately, his father laughed.After the 9/11/2001 issue, only the second with no cartoons, the first cartoon in the subsequent issue was by Cullum.
Here's another Cullum classic. Thanks for all the laughs.
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