13 Facts About Gumby

Gumby is an American clay animation franchise, centered on the titular green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey.

Gumby immediately became a famous example of stop motion clay animation and a cultural icon, spawning tributes, parodies, and merchandising.

Gumby franchise follows Gumby's adventures through different environments and historical eras.

Gumby's nemeses are the G and J Blockheads, a pair of antagonistic red humanoid figures with cube-shaped heads, one with the letter G on the block, the other with the letter J Their creation was inspired by the trouble-making Katzenjammer Kids.

Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after he finished film school at the University of Southern California .

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Much of Gumby's look and feel was inspired by this technique of camera movements and editing.

Name "Gumby" came from the muddy clay found at Clokey's grandparents' farm that his family called "gumbo".

Gumby's appearance was inspired by a suggestion from his wife, Ruth, that Gumby be based on the Gingerbread Man.

In early episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston, until Dallas McKennon assumed the role in 1957.

In 1959, The Gumby Show entered syndication, and more episodes were produced in the 1960s.

Gumby Adventures includes new characters, such as Gumby's little sister Minga, a mastodon named Denali and a chicken named Tilly.

The children's book Gumby Goes to the Sun was published that year to commemorate the anniversary.

Premavision owned the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons, having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros.