Cliff Roberts

Cliff Roberts (1929-1999) was a cartoonist and animator who worked on inserts for Sesame Street as well as the spin-off comic strip. 
Roberts spent much of his early career in New York City as a freelance commercial artist and director. He also worked as a photographer, with work displayed at the 1964 World's Fair, and contributed cartoons to Playboy and The New Yorker. He soon became a popular designer for animation, creating character model sheets for Terrytoons and UPA projects. Roberts' style, reflecting his commercial illustration background, involved flat but appealing forms and a minimal color palette; most of his characters were white blobs with occasional splashes of color.
For the Sesame Street comic strip, Roberts created Jasper and Julius, a comedy duo who would engage in debates over body parts, as well as Christopher Clumsy and Miss Fortune. These characters were eventually brought over to the show in season 4.
Roberts later worked on the Saturday morning cartoons The Smurfs, Scooby-Doo and The Pink Panther, and illustrated the Langston Hughes book The First Book of Jazz. He retired in 1993.
Out loud near a kid.jpg|Roberts' title card forthe Sesame Street comic strip
==Segments==
:see also: Poverty Pictures segments
Image:1095i.jpg|I've Got a Mind
Image:IThoughtaBigThought.jpg|I Thought a Thought
Image:Cartoonleg.jpg|Jasper and Julius
Image:Christopherclumsy.jpg|Christopher Clumsy
Image:Folge1a.jpg|Buying apples 
Image:CRoberts.Mouseelephant.jpg|What if a mouse and an elephant switched bodies? 
Image:Dogbird.jpg|What if a dog looked like a bird? 
Image:Toon-Tall-er-estTrees.jpg|Big, bigger, biggest trees 
Image:haroldhoward.jpg|Harold and Howard 
Image:400013.jpg|T for Top 
Image:2257p.jpg|Dry and Wet (By the Pool) 
Image:3161k.jpg|Dry and Wet (Washing the Dog) 
Image:Drywet.elephant.jpg|Dry and Wet (Elephant) 
Image:DryWet.manonbeach.jpg|Dry and Wet (At the Beach) 
Image:3141p.jpg|Dry and Wet (Shark Fishing) 
CRoberts-Jellybeans.jpg|Boy and Jellybeans 
Image:3142u.jpg|Dry and Wet (In the Rain) 
Image:Cartoontwoeyes.jpg|Two ears, two eyes, two arms, and two legs. 
Frogflycartoon.jpg|What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? 
Image:Anteatergiraffe.jpg|What if an Anteater Mutated into a Giraffe? 
Image:300002.jpg|A Mouse and the Letter M 
Image:Whatif.rabbit-turtle.jpg|What if a turtle and a rabbit switched bodies? 
1246-Fortune.jpg|Miss Fortune and a dog 
Image:FullChickens.jpg|Full, fuller and fullest chickens 
Image:BirdBalloonSub.jpg|Balloon Subtraction 
Image:Updownbrothersister.jpg|Up and down 
Image:1090-18.jpg|P for Picnic 
Image:Feelings about Stanley.jpg|I Like Stanley 
Image:1708i.jpg|The Post Office 
Image:Stopjuggling.jpg|Stop Juggling 
Image:Wearaseatbelt.jpg|Wear Your Seat Belt 
Image:1710n.jpg|Alphabet Interruption 
Image:Hineighbor.jpg|Letter N Salesman 
Image:CRoberts.Horse.jpg|H for Horse and other things 
Image:L.Lizard.CliffRoberts.jpg|Various L words 
Image:CFesqueAWords.jpg|Various A words 
Image:4115x.jpg|Various H words 
Toon-ILikeYouBut.jpg|I Like You, But...
==External links==
*Bio with Sesame Street comic images
*Sample illustrations from The First Book of Jazz
* Early work for FORD TIMES magazine
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