Cartoonists And Animators

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Xavier Atencio (IMDb), a Disney animator and imagineer, has died aged 98. He worked on Disney's Pinocchio and Fantasia as well as the soundtracks to a couple of Disney movies. Perhaps his lasting legacy will be his contributions to two iconic Disney theme park rides: Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion - both of which spawned feature films. He was a Disney Legend, who as I have mentioned before are a group of very elderly, highly obitable people. 

 

Edit: Daily Mail obituary. 

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Tolkien illustrator Roger Garland dead at 67 from Motor Neurone Disease:

 

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2017/10/tolkien-illustrator-roger-garland-has-died/

[Bibliogryphon 8,607]

Wow. Did not know he suffered from MND. Very sad. However he was on my very long list.

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Grant Munro (IMDb), a Canadian filmmaker and animator, has died aged 94. He starred in Neighbours (Voisins), a 1952 short film which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). He went on to animate his own films, including the Academy Award nominated Christmas Cracker, as well as Canon and The Animal Movie.

 

Here is Neighbours, which Picasso described as 'the greatest film ever made'. 

 

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What were they smoking?

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Bob Givens (IMDb) [previously mentioned here], animator for Disney and Warner Bros., has died aged 99. He worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as well as many Looney Tunes cartoons. He created the first official design of Bugs Bunny.

 

Edit: Daily Mail, BBC obituaries.

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That's a shame, I assumed the last of the classic Looney Tunes names went with June Foray, so discovering Givens was a nice surprise. Reckon his death truly closes the door on that era now, but like Foray, a nice old age reached. RIP.

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On 15/12/2017 at 06:58, Thatcher said:

Bob Givens (IMDb) [previously mentioned here], animator for Disney and Warner Bros., has died aged 99 according to his daughter on Facebook. He worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as well as many Looney Tunes cartoons. He created the first official design of Bugs Bunny.

Animation Magazine confirms

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Australian cartoonist Ron Tandberg is dead at 74. 

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Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey, has died aged 94.

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could have sworn he had his own thread...

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Bud Luckey, Pixar cartoonist, character designer, animator, and voice actor is dead according to posts on twitter, no confirmation or news reports yet. 

 

Here's his wikipedia page... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Luckey

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The reaper was up all night to get Luckey?

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8 hours ago, John Robinson said:

Bud Luckey, Pixar cartoonist, character designer, animator, and voice actor is dead according to posts on twitter, no confirmation or news reports yet. 

 

Here's his wikipedia page... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Luckey

Not sure how QO-ish toughpigs.com is   but apparently he had quite a presence with the Muppets as well.
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[RobertMugabe 437]

that scooby doo was a good cartoon, this was  a standout episode for me. 

 

 

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Hollywood Reporter has his death reported here.. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/bud-luckey-dead-oscar-nominated-animator-who-designed-woody-toy-story-was-83-1088229

[Sir Creep 7,011]

6 hours ago, RobertMugabe said:

that scooby doo was a good cartoon, this was  a standout episode for me. 

 

 

 

Well unlike you, Robert, that got old fast.

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17 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

 

Well unlike you, Robert, that got old fast.

Yeh about as old as you crying about dying ice hockey players nobody has heard of. Just saying. 

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Caricaturist Robert Grossman died on March 15th aged 78. Whilst known for lampooning US Presidents

he also designed the movie poster for Airplane!

and was Oscar-nominated for his claymation short 'Jimmy The C'  - Jimmy Carter singing 'Georgia on my Mind'.

 

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On 25/2/2018 at 22:03, RobertMugabe said:

that scooby doo was a good cartoon, this was  a standout episode for me. 

 

 

If it wasn't for those pesky Zimbabwean African People's Union kids,he would have got away with it

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Three years ago the voice of Roger Ramjet died. Now, according to this report, so has Ramjet's creator and animator Fred Crippen. https://www.awn.com/news/roger-ramjet-creator-educator-fred-crippen-dies-90

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187901/

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Lee Holley, who created an idyllic picture of postwar American teenage life through “Ponytail,” a syndicated cartoon panel and Sunday comic strip that appeared in hundreds of newspapers around the world, died on March 26 in a plane crash in Marina, Calif.  He was 85 (and flying a goddamn plane!).   Mr. Holley, an (85 year old) amateur pilot, was flying his single-engine plane when it crashed at Marina’s municipal airport on the morning of the 26th. There were no passengers aboard. Marina is about 10 miles north of Monterey, Calif.
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[gcreptile 10,211]

Guardian interview with Frank Miller:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/frank-miller-xerxes-cursed-sin-city-the-dark-knight-returns

 

Still looks too old and frail but there currently seems to be nothing wrong with him - though his mentor Neal Adams was apparently predicting his death within six months, because of alcohol and the like.

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Antonio Lupatelli, Italian illustrator who worked under the pseudonym Tony Wolf, perhaps best known in the UK as the illustrator of Pingu books, has died aged 88.

 

Edit: Daily Mail obituary.

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39 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

Antonio Lupatelli, Italian illustrator who worked under the pseudonym Tony Wolf, perhaps best known in the UK as the illustrator of Pingu books, has died aged 88.

 

RIP to a real one. Noot noot.