| LC control no. | n 88606968 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Strobl, Anthony |
| Variant(s) | Strobl, Tony |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1915-05-12 |
| Death date | 1991-12-29 |
| Place of birth | Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Affiliation | Walt Disney Productions Western Publishing Company |
| Profession or occupation | Cartoonists |
| Found in | nuc88-11000: Carlisle, C. Bugs Bunny's carrot machine, c1971 (hdg. on MiEM rept.: Strobl, Anthony; usage: Anthony Strobl) Walt Disney's Donald Duck classics. Quack up, 2010: contents (Tony Strobl) Lambiek comiclopedia website, viewed April 22, 2022 (Tony Strobl; Anthony Joseph Strobl; 12 May 1915 - 29 December 1991, USA; probably the artist who has drawn the most Disney comic pages over the years; he started in animation at Disney in 1938; after return from World War II he decided to leave animation and focus on comics; through the 1950s he was one of the main artists on stories in the 'Duck universe' (Donald and his nephews); in the mid-1960s he was assigned by Disney to draw comics starring 'Donald Duck' and 'The Junior Woodchucks' on a freelance base for publications outside the USA) The Art Bin (website), Articles & essays, Berglund, Anders. Here's the classic Donald Duck of Tony Strobl, translated from Swedish, undated, viewed April 22, 2022 (Anthony Joseph Strobl, born on 12 May 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised there by his Czechloslovakian parents; attended Cleveland School of Art 1933-1937; in 1947 he began working for Western Publishing, who put out most of the funny animal comics, including Disney characters; after 1954 it was Strobl who was responsibible for a majority of the content in Donald Duck; in the mid 1960s he was contacted by Disney studios to produce comics for magazines outside the United States (Western Publishing had the license for the US market); he continued working for Western Publishing, but less so; during his first years at Western Strobl also did the inking and lettering of the serials that he drew, but was slow; since the mid-1950s he limited himself to the actual pencil drawing; during later years he wrote some stories himself, with minimum dialogue and "lots of room for drawing"; laid off by Disney in 1987, no pension due to freelance status; died in 1991; he lived in Northridge, just outside Hollywood) |
| Associated language | eng |
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