1. Arthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, which he worked on from 1930 until his retirement in 1975.
12 Facts About Floyd Gottfredson
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Floyd Gottfredson continued to produce the Mickey Mouse strips for the next 45 years.
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Floyd Gottfredson headed the comics department at Disney from 1930 to 1946, and was replaced by Frank Reilly.
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Originally, Floyd Gottfredson wrote and drew the Mickey Mouse strip alone, but in 1932, he pulled back to plotting the stories and doing the penciling, while the dialogue was mostly done by other hands.
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Floyd Gottfredson plotted the continuities until Bill Walsh started writing the strip in 1943.
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Floyd Gottfredson continued illustrating the daily strip until he retired on October 1,1975.
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Floyd Gottfredson's mouse combines the virtues of a good citizen and a good soldier.
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Between 1978 and 1983, Floyd Gottfredson did a total of 24 paintings commissioned by collector Malcolm Willits, inspired by the success of the paintings of the Disney ducks done by Carl Barks.
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Floyd Gottfredson's work had been printed in newspapers, magazines, and comic books worldwide for over 50 years, but as a Disney employee, he was never allowed to sign it.
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Floyd Gottfredson's identity was finally revealed in the mid-1960s by fan Malcolm Willits.
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Floyd Gottfredson died at his home in Southern California at the age of 81.
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In 2006, Floyd Gottfredson was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards' Hall of Fame.