Al Taliaferro

Al Taliaferro

Charles Alfred Taliaferro (August 29, 1905 - February 3, 1969) known simply as Al Taliaferro was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate. Many of his strips were written by Bob 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 the Bucky Bug comics in 1932 as well as Silly Symphonies pages from 1932 to 1939. Taliaferro co-created a number of characters, including Huey, Dewey and Louie, Bolivar, Grandma Duck, and arguably Daisy Duck. He drew Donald 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 Northern Italy.

Taliaferro was posthumously honored with a Disney Legends award in 2003.

External links

*Inducks author|AT
* [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)]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Taliaferro — Taliaferro, Tolliver, or Toliver (all pronEng|ˈtɒlɪvɚ TOL ih ver ), [ [http://www.genealogymagazine.com/surnames.html Gary R. Toms and James Pylant. Talliaferro is Tolliver: Surnames Sound a Challenge for Researchers. ] Reprinted from American… …   Wikipedia

  • Taliaferro — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Al Taliaferro (1905–1969), US amerikanischer Comiczeichner Benjamin Taliaferro (1750–1821), US amerikanischer Politiker George Taliaferro (* 1927), US amerikanischer Footballspieler Hal Taliaferro… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Taliaferro County — Courthouse, gelistet im NRHP Nr. 80001242[1] Verwaltung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Taliaferro — (spr. Tolever), Grafschaft im Staate Georgia (Nordamerika), 9 QM., von den Quellenflüssen der Ogeecher u. Little Rivers durchflössen; hügelig; Producte: Baumwolle, Mais, Weizen, Bataten, Eisen, Gold (in geringer Menge); die Georgiabahn… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Taliaferro County, Georgia — Infobox U.S. County county = Taliaferro County state = Georgia map size = 225 founded = December 24 1825 seat = Crawfordville | area total sq mi =195 area land sq mi =195 area water sq mi =0 area percentage = 0.04% census yr = 2000 pop = 2077… …   Wikipedia

  • Taliaferro (apple) — Infobox Cultivar | name = Malus domestica Taliaferro image width = 250px ancestry = Unknown cultivar = Taliaferro origin = flagicon|United States Virginia, pre 1778The Taliaferro (pr. Tolliver ), Robinson or Robertson was a small sized apple… …   Wikipedia

  • Taliaferro, Edith — (1893 1958)    Richmond, Virginia born Edith Taliaferro was the child of theatre workers and made her debut at age three in a stock production of Shore Acres. She acted for over 40 years, but her greatest success came early, with the title role… …   The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

  • Taliaferro, Mabel — (1887 1979)    Like her sister Edith, Mabel Taliaferro began her long acting career as a toddler, playing in a stock production of Blue Jeans at the age of two. She made her New York debut in Israel Zangwill s Children of the Ghetto (1899), after …   The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

  • Taliaferro — Sp Tòlaveras Ap Taliaferro L JAV apyg. (Džordžija) …   Pasaulio vietovardžiai. Internetinė duomenų bazė

  • Taliaferro County — Admin ASC 2 Code Orig. name Taliaferro County Country and Admin Code US.GA.265 US …   World countries Adminstrative division ASC I-II

  • Adam Taliaferro — (b. January 1, 1982 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania) is a former American football player whose recovery from a paralyzing spinal cord injury sustained while playing cornerback for the Penn State Nittany Lions gained national media attention.… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”