Leigh Rubin, the California-based syndicated cartoonist whose comic panel “Rubes” appears daily in the Gazette-Times, is coming to Corvallis on Thursday for a pair of public presentations.

Rubin will be presenting “A Twisted Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste” at 4 p.m. in the Journey Room at the Oregon State University Memorial Union.

An encore presentation is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Majestic Theatre’s Community Room, 115 S.W. Second St.

Both presentations are free, but donations of nonperishable food will be accepted to benefit Linn Benton Food Share. The presentation is sponsored by the Gazette-Times and OSU Student Media.

“Rubes,” now celebrating its 28th anniversary, is syndicated in more than 400 newspapers and other publications worldwide.

In addition to print, “Rubes” also has appeared on television and the big screen. The panel also has played a part in the “Got Milk?” advertising campaign.

In “Twisted Mind,” Rubin offers reflections about the importance of persistence and the fun of problem solving while celebrating the joy of creativity.

Rubin sent along this additional biographical material about himself. We didn’t have time to run it through our usual rigorous fact-checking process, but we see no reason to doubt any of it:

Rubin, 24, is a two-time winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and comes to Corvallis in the wake of his unexpected triumph at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, where his polka recording “Talk to the Cows” won three Grammys.

Before he started “Rubes,” Rubin was a theoretical physicist whose insights into the nature of space and time earned him an additional Nobel Prize for Deep Thinking. He said some of those insights came to him during his four Super Bowl victories, each of which featured dramatic fourth-quarter comebacks engineered by Rubin’s brilliant play at quarterback.

“Just one more of these Nobels,” Rubin has said, “and I’ll have a full dinner set.”

The first full-length “Rubes” movie, “The Tree of Rubes,” is a heavy favorite to sweep at the Academy Awards ceremony later this month.

He is a two-time runner-up in People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue. “Damn that Brad Pitt,” Rubin has said.

He lives in a Fortress of Solitude somewhere in the Arctic Circle.