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Comic book artist and funky animation whiz Gary Leib has a short currently playing on The New York Times website: a fluid and funny visual riff about how the meatpacking district has changed over the years. Gary emailed me to say that this is the first in a series of four original cartoons. “Each piece is about a minute long, and is a very personal take on different parts of New York.” Gary runs Twinkle, a flash animation production company. He’s produced animation for the American Splendor movie and They Might Be Giant’s Dr. Worm video. He also co-created the comic book series Idiotland (with Doug Allen). Click here to enjoy sundry creatures, human and otherwise, cavorting through the centuries.

—Anne D. Bernstein