Cartoonist Ted Key, whose comic strip “Hazel” about a bossy maid went from magazine page to TV screen, has died. He was 95. …
Key also created the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman for producer Jay Ward. The time-traveling dog/scientist and his boy made their TV debuts in 1959 in segments on the animated show “Rocky and His Friends.” …
Ollie Johnston, the last of the “Nine Old Men” who animated “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Fantasia,” “Bambi” and other classic Walt Disney films, died Monday. He was 95. …Read full obituary
Comic-strip publisher who championed Hergé and made Tintin a household name worldwide … Read full obituary
Steve Gerber, the comic book writer and creator whose signature character was the alienated, cigar-chomping Howard the Duck, has died. He was 60. Gerber, who also co-created Marvel’s “Omega the Unknown” and created the 1980s animated series “Thundarr the Barbarian,” suffered from pulmonary fibrosis. … Read full obituary
Doug Marlette, the North Carolina-born cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize and created the popular strip ”Kudzu,” was killed in a car accident Tuesday morning in Mississippi, authorities said. He was 57. … Read full obituary
Brant Parker, whose encouragement of Endicott native Johnny Hart led to the creation of Hart’s comic strip “B.C.” and then to their collaboration on “The Wizard of Id,” died on Sunday in Lynchburg, Va. — eight days after Hart, 76, died in Nineveh. Parker’s death was announced by Creators Syndicate, which distributes both comic strips. … Read full obituary
Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning “B.C.” comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He was 76. … Read full obituary
Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the cartoon canine Scooby-Doo as well as characters on such shows as “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons,” died Monday after suffering a massive coronary, a spokesman said. He was 81. … Read full obituary
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Animation legend Joe Barbera, 95
Burbank, Calif. (December 18, 2006) — Animation legend Joseph Barbera, co-chairman and co-founder of the world renowned Hanna-Barbera Studios, died today at his Studio City, CA home with wife Sheila at his side. He was 95 years old. … Read full obituary
Bob Thaves, whose nationally syndicated comic strip “Frank & Ernest” amused newspaper readers for decades with its quirky observations on life, has died of respiratory failure. He was 81. … Read full obituary
LOS ANGELES — Henry Corden, the voice of leopard-suited caveman Fred Flintstone’s “yabba dabba doo!” for more than two decades, has died. The Montreal-born actor was 85. … Read full obituary
PENNGROVE, Calif. Apr 7, 2005 — Dale Messick, whose long-running comic strip “Brenda Starr, Reporter” gave her entry into the male world of the funny pages, has died at age 98. … Read full obituary
Pioneering animator Ward Kimball, who helped modernize Mickey Mouse’s look in 1938 and created the character Jiminy Cricket for the Disney classic “Pinocchio,” died on Monday at age 88.
Kimball, a member of Walt Disney’s trusted cadre of cartoon artists known as the “nine old men,” died of natural causes at a hospital in Arcadia, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles, the Walt Disney Co. said in a statement.
During a Disney career that stretched from 1934 until his retirement in 1973, Kimball animated or served as directing animator on such feature classics as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Pinocchio,” “Fantasia,” “Cinderella” and “Alice in Wonderland.”
Two animated shorts he created for Disney — “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Bloom” (1953) and “It’s Tough to be a Bird” (1969) — won Academy Awards. … Read full obituary
Dave Berg, who affectionately spoofed what he called “the human condition” in the pages of Mad magazine for more than 40 years, died on May 16 at his home in Marina del Rey, Calif. He was 81.
Mr. Berg created the magazine’s enduring “The Lighter Side of” comic strip. He began working for Mad as a freelancer in 1956, introducing “The Lighter Side of” in 1961. …
Born in New York City, Mr. Berg attended the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, landing a job inking backgrounds for the newspaper comic strip “The Spirit” when he was 20.
Later, Mr. Berg worked for Stan Lee at Timely Comics (now Marvel Comics)…
His final “Lighter Side” comic strip is scheduled for the September issue of Mad, which observes the magazine’s 50th anniversary. … Read full obituary
Academy Award-winning animator Chuck Jones, who drew such beloved cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, has died. He was 89. … Read full obituary
George Gately, the creator of Heathcliff, the rotund cartoon cat, has died at 72.
He died on Sunday of a heart attack… Read full obituary
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