Leila Cabib

Leila Cabib is a professional cartoonist, illustrator, and animator.  Her clients include The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Gannett newspapers, Time-Life Books, and many other publications and organizations.  She has written and illustrated two nationally syndicated comic strips.   She has been teaching cartooning in after-school programs for 29 years and cartooning and animation as an artist in residence in elementary, middle, and high schools (grades 2-12) for 20 years.  She also teaches children and senior citizens in partnership with Montgomery County Public Libraries.  Her students’ animated videos have been honored with several national awards and shown at international film festivals. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Leila speaks fluent Spanish and has taught her classes in both English and Spanish.  In addition to cartooning, Leila enjoys sketching historic residential architecture on site.