- Bob Gregory
Robert P. Gregory (1921,
Los Angeles, California - 2003) was an Americancomics artist and writer best known for various writing/drawing hundreds ofGold Key comics starring theWalt Disney Pictures characterDonald Duck .Biography
Bob Gregory attended the
Otis Art Institute and fought inWorld War II before working as a technical illustrator for anaircraft manufacturer . He began submitting art sketches toWestern Publishing , for which he began freelancing on a steady basis in 1958 — first as a writer, then as a writer-artist both writer and artist — on many of Western'sfunny animal comics, including the Donald Duck comics produced under license by Western's Gold Key Comics.He introduced the Billionaires Club of Duckburg, where
Scrooge McDuck is a member, in the story "The Christmas Cha Cha" (1959), written by Gregory and illustrated byCarl Barks . After having doneScrooge McDuck universe comics only in his early career, he started doing "Aristocats " stories in the 1970s, when he also penciled most issues of "Daisy and Donald", co-starringDaisy Duck . Gregory did some other comics as well.His World War II memoirs, "Letters from the South Pacific", was published in 1996.
The official cause of death was listed as
pneumonia .Gregory's daughter,
Roberta Gregory , is a comics artist, best known for her characterBitchy Bitch .References
* [http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2003_12_09.html#007815 News from Me (Dec. 9, 2003): Bob Gregory, R.I.P]
External links
* [http://coa.inducks.org/creator.php?c=BGy Bob Gregory] in the
I.N.D.U.C.K.S.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
