- Al Taliaferro
Charles Alfred Taliaferro (
August 29 ,1905 -February 3 ,1969 ) known simply as Al Taliaferro was aDisney comics artist who used to produce Disneycomic strip s forKing Features Syndicate . Many of his strips were written byBob Karp .He is best-known for his work on the Donald Duck comic strip, but he started his career lettering the
Mickey Mouse strips (March 1931 - July 1932), and drew theBucky Bug comics in 1932 as well asSilly Symphonies pages from 1932 to 1939. Taliaferro co-created a number of characters, includingHuey, Dewey and Louie , Bolivar,Grandma Duck , and arguablyDaisy Duck . He drewDonald Duck comic strips from 1938 until his death in 1969 in Glendale,California .After his family moved to Glendale, Al studied art at the "Institute of Art" in California. On
January 5 1931 he was hired in Disney Studios as an animator, but soon transferred to the comic strip department. At its height the Donald Duck comic strips was published in 322 newspapers.Trivia
Animation historian Jim Korkis noted that Taliaferro designed the mascot Litter-Not in 1967 who adorned the public trash receptacles in Glendale into the 1970s and to this day is the official mascot of the "Committee for a Clean & Beautiful Glendale".
While many of Taliaferro's strips were reprinted in Disney comic books in only a few instances did he do original artwork for comic books. Among these was the Cheerios Premium Giveaway "Donald Duck: Counter Spy" (1947) and the cover of
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #107 (August 1949) [http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=7759&zoom=2] .The Taliaferros (originally "Tagliaferro", literally "Ironcutter" in Italian) is one the early families who settled in
Virginia in the 17th century, whose origins are to be traced in NorthernItaly .Taliaferro was posthumously honored with a
Disney Legends award in 2003.External links
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* [http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/cdh/litternot.asp Litter-Not page on city of Glendale website]
* [http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail?key=Alfred+Taliaferro Disney Legends profile]
* [http://bp0.blogger.com/_XOjDUIzHDXw/Rf4PqhQeBhI/AAAAAAAAAHo/AwkIzhuI9tk/s1600-h/dff+wdcs+gag.jpgNovember 8th, 1943 Donald Duck comic strip as reprinted in issue 48 of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (September 1944)]
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