In the September issue of Coastal Angler Magazine we debuted a comic in the magazine and we hope you enjoyed the humor as we did. Let us introduce you to the man behind the cartoon, Robert “Bob” Layland.
Bob and his wife Jen moved to the Treasure Coast aboard their 1970 Cheoy Lee Clipper 42 and lived aboard the boat for five years. After Hurricanes France, Jean and Wilma, they bought a house and “swallowed the anchor.”
During the Layland’s live aboard time, they met a great cast of characters while on the hook or in the marinas—a few you may see in his cartoons, including himself!
Besides recently testing the waters of being a cartoonist, Bob has a long list of careers and occupations: fast food cook, car salesman, started an employment agency, sold insurance and annuities, published a beach magazine, worked as a carpenter, sold boats and marine equipment, built shrimp doors and wove shrimp nets, was a marine hardware clerk, became a registered nurse, went back to school, and is now providing anesthesia to patients in the operating room of a local hospital.
Thanks for adding some fishing and marine related humor to Coastal Angler Magazine Bob!