Floyd Gottfredson ( born Floyd Gottfredson , May 5, 1905 [1] - July 22, 1986 ) is an American illustrator who has been the author of drawings for comics about Mickey Mouse for 45 years.
| Floyd Gottfredson | |
|---|---|
| English Floyd gottfredson | |
| Date of Birth | May 5, 1905 |
| Place of Birth | Caseville , Utah , USA |
| Date of death | July 22, 1986 ( 81) |
| Place of death | La Canada Flintridge , California , USA |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Direction | screenwriter, artist |
| Famous works | Mickey Mouse |
| Awards | [d] Disney Legends ( 2003 ) |
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Childhood
Born in 1905 in Caseville, Utah . His great-grandfather immigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1840. As a child, Gottfredson was seriously wounded in the arm while hunting. Restoring health and spending long days in four walls, he became interested in drawing and soon even took several distance lessons to improve his skills, despite the fact that his father was against the creative activity of his son. In the late 1920s, Floyd already worked as an illustrator in a number of magazines, as well as in the Salt Lake City Telegram [2] .
Career
In 1928, Gottfredson took part in a caricature contest, following which he won second place. In December of the same year, he moved to Southern California , where, despite the abundance of newspaper publishers, he could not find work in any of them. However, he was able to get a job as a projectionist, moreover, already having experience of similar work in Utah .
In December 1929, Floyd was hired by Walt Disney Productions as an assistant animator for $ 18 a week. In April of the following year, he set to work on an unfinished comic strip about Mickey Mouse , the script for which was written by Walt Disney himself, and Ab Iverks and Win Smith worked on the illustrations. In May, Gottfredson was assigned two weeks to take the position of comic book illustrator for the daily newspaper strip until the company finds a new person in his place. However, temporary work has become permanent: in this position, the artist worked for 45 years, until October 1975 [3] .
Gottfredson originally drew comics entirely on his own, but since 1934 he began to collaborate with screenwriters such as Ted Osborne and Bill Walsh, as well as with outline artists (until 1943), including Al Tagliaferro. For a long time, the artist's comics interwoven long stories, the plot of which developed over the course of several publications. They were also not entitled in any way. The proper names of the work received only later, when they were published in separate comic book magazines. Since 1955, at the request of King Features Syndicate , Gottfredson and Walsh, the screenwriter at the time, were instructed to write short stories so that each storyline would have a separate newspaper issue [2] .
Gottfredson continued to illustrate daily comics until October 1, 1975. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he gave a number of interviews to a number of comic book magazines. In 1988, the book Mickey Mouse in Color was published, a special edition of which contains an audio recording of an interview with Gottfridson and Karl Barks .
Personal life
Gottfridson was married to Matty Mason, the couple had three children. He died in 1986 at his home in Southern California at the 82nd year of his life [2] .
Notes
- ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JB77-V3D : accessed February 26, 2013), Floyd Gottfredson, July 1986; citing US Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ↑ 1 2 3 Comic creator: Floyd Gottfredson, Lambiek Comiclopedia . Archived January 7, 2013.
- ↑ Floyd Gottfredson at the INDUCKS . Archived January 7, 2013.