Carl Robert Fallberg was a writer and cartoonist known for his work on animated feature films and TV cartoons for Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera, and Warner Brothers.
15 Facts About Carl Fallberg
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Carl Fallberg wrote comic books for Dell Comics, Western Publishing, and Gold Key Comics.
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Carl Fallberg was the middle of three children, with an older sister, Lisa Lina "Dixie," and a younger sister, Elinor Faith.
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Becky and Carl married at the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles, California, on July 14,1945, and had one child, Carla Larissa Fallberg, born in 1955.
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Becky continued to work for Disney Studios, eventually becoming the Manager of the Ink and Paint Department, while Carl Fallberg worked as a freelance writer and cartoonist for Disney, Hanna Barbera, and several other cartoon studios and comic book publishers companies.
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From his early days at Disney, Carl Fallberg shared his enthusiasm for Colorado's narrow-gauge railroads with Ward Kimball and the Grizzly Flats Railroad, and incorporated the theme into some comic stories he wrote, such as the Mickey Mouse story "The Vanishing Railroad".
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Carl Fallberg transitioned to working on Disney comic books for Dell Publishing and was noted for scripting many of the Mickey Mouse serials illustrated by Paul Murry that appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories from the early 1950s to 1962.
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Besides his work with Murry, Carl Fallberg freelanced, writing and illustrating Disney comic books featuring Li'l Bad Wolf, Jiminy Cricket, Professor Ludwig Von Drake, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Gyro Gearloose, Goofy, Chip 'n' Dale, and many others.
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From 1963 to 1989, Carl Fallberg wrote scripts for the Disney Studio Program, and from 1974 to 1985, he wrote scripts for the comic strips Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales and the Disney Christmas Story daily strips that appeared each December.
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The last comic book story Carl Fallberg wrote for Disney was "Goofy the Kid" in 1990.
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Carl Fallberg wrote the Sears Winnie the Pooh Coloring Book in 1975, contributed to The Wonderful World of Disney, a Gulf Oil giveaway magazine, and provided the text for two of Whitman's Big Little Books: Donald Duck and the Luck of the Ducks and Donald Duck and the Fabulous Diamond Fountain.
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From 1972 through 1981, Carl Fallberg worked as a storyman and story director on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon television shows: Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, Scooby-Doo, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, The All-New Popeye Hour, Laugh-a-Lympics, The Three Robonic Stooges and The Kwicky Koala Show.
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Carl Fallberg wrote for the Hanna-Barbera comic books of: The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and The Jetsons.
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From 1953 through the early 1970s, Carl Fallberg wrote for the Warner Bros.
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For Walter Lantz, Carl Fallberg wrote Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, and Homer Pigeon comic books.