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Anthony Joseph Strobl (12 May 1915 – 29 December 1991) was an American comics artist and animator. | |||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Anthony Joseph Strobl (12 May 1915 – 29 December 1991) was an American comics artist and animator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Cleveland School of Art from 1933 to 1937, with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who actually got some help from Strobl creating Superman. Gerard Jones in his book Men of Tomorrow reveals at one point Jerry Siegel contemplated ending his partnership with Joe Shuster in developing what became Superman and work with someone else instead. Strobl was among those approached but he respectfully declined, feeling his more cartoony artstyle was ill-suited for such a serious character. | |||
After finishing his education, Strobl became impressed enough by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to seek a job at Walt Disney Studios. After a refusal, he eventually was hired in 1938. He worked as an animator on Fantasia, Dumbo, and Pinocchio before he left the studio to fight in World War II. According to historian Beverley Driver Eddy, Strobl was among the men trained in psychological warfare at [[Camp Sharpe]] near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; the roster lists him with the 3rd Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company. | |||
In 1942, Strobl saved a seven-year-old girl from drowning while working for an Army propaganda unit. He returned to animation after the war, but moved over to the comics field, and after a few commercial artist jobs, he started working for Western Publishing in 1947. | |||
At Western, he illustrated primarily Disney comics, especially from the Duck universe. Starting with a Bucky Bug story for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #100 in 1949, Strobl had a long and impressive production of Disney comics. He did comic book stories for Western until 1968, and for the Disney Studio Program from 1963 to his retirement in 1987. Although during his career he primarily illustrated stories written by others, he wrote some of his stories himself. | |||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Strobl Tony Strobl — Wikipedia] | |||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_qpINgvv0 Beverley Driver Eddy, Gettysburg History interview on Camp Sharpe (YouTube)] (Camp Sharpe training) | |||
* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data | * Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data | ||
* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records | * Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records | ||