William Van Horn

Infobox Comics creator


name = William Van Horn
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birthname = William Roger Van Horn
birthdate = Birth date and age|1939|2|15|mf=y
location = Oakland, California, United States
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nationality = American
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William Van Horn (born February 15, 1939) has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. He draws mostly Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and he has also written and/or illustrated stories based on the animated series "DuckTales". Some of these stories featured Launchpad McQuack as the main character.

Van Horn also did "Nervous Rex" prior to doing stories for Disney.

In the first years of his career as a Disney Comics artist William often worked with John Lustig on the stories. At one time in 1994 he helped Carl Barks do a story titled "Horsing around with History" which was released in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #33.

William's son Noel Van Horn is also a Disney comics artist.

Here is a list of characters William Van Horn created for the Duck universe:
* Baron Itzy Bitzy - a whistling flea that Scrooge has.
* Rumpus McFowl - Scrooge's half brother who is also his cousin.
* Woimly Filcher - an enemy of Donald Duck and his nephews.

External links

*Inducks author|WVH
* [http://wvh.barksbase.de/en/index.htm A fansite]