Tony Strobl
Anthony Joseph Strobl ( born May 12, 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio; † 29 December 1991 in Ohio ), known as Tony Strobl, was an American comic book and animation artists, was particularly famous for his performances for Disney.
Biography
Tony Strobl was born on 12 May 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Czech parents. Very early on he was enthusiastic about drawing and therefore attended from 1933 to 1937, the Cleveland School of Art, where he studied at the same time as Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, who had the idea for a completely new superheroes. Although Strobl little thought of the idea and hardly thought it was a success, he helped them in preparing their figure who later became world famous under the name of Superman.
As Strobl had made his statements, the animated film Snow White celebrated its cinema premiere, the very inspired him. He made the decision to also do something in this direction and wrote an application to the Disney Studios. The local leaders showed little enthusiasm initially and rejected it on the grounds that he must first complete a proper animation school. However, he could not be put off and traveled to Hollywood, where he presented to Disney some of his designs. This time he was accepted without hesitation and no one asked after graduating.
In December 1938 he began working with some sequences in the film Fantasia. His job consisted in the fact present some figures that had been previously created by other animators in various movements and insert it into the finished film. Subsequently, he also helped in other productions, Pinocchio and Dumbo, moved him to the army because of the Second World War.
After the war, Strobl decided to no longer participate in the various films and wanted to instead go to the comic profession, not least because the content turned out significant higher. For several years he produced a wide variety of illustrations, until he came in Beverly Hills 1947 Western Publishing. The company had made a name with a variety of comics, including those from Disney, Warner Brothers and Walter Lantz. Because of Strobl soon mastered a large number of figures and also produced comics with Bugs Bunny or Woody Woodpecker on.
Beginning of the 50s the fame and popularity of the Disney comics rose sharply. So Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories in 1952 reported a circulation of around four million, more than any other comics before. In Western Publishing was then decided to leave the far more sparsely distributed comics to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck or Scrooge McDuck now appear regularly every two months. While Carl Barks was commissioned for the stories with Scrooge, the rest of the signatories troops should take care of Donald; Jack Bradbury, Phil de Lara, Paul Murry, and of course Tony Strobl. His work has been important, as Bradbury and Murry multiplies the comics to Mickey Mouse turned towards particularly after the year 1954.
Mid 60 Strobl was contacted by the folks at Disney to produce with the idea itself new comic magazines which, however, would only buy outside the U.S. ( Western Publishing had the license at that time for the U.S. market). Strobl was impressed by the idea initially unenthusiastic, then had her but still wide strike, among other things because of the fee of $ 30 per page, compared to $ 23 from before. He was responsible for a long time for the foreign sector.
His last drawings were made 1986-1987, where he was limited to daily appearing Donald Strips and only for a short period running Sunday strips. His very last work for Disney was helping with the manuscripts shortly afterwards appearing DuckTales series. On December 29, 1991 Tony Strobl died at his home in Ohio.
Work and style
During his first years at Western Publishing Strobl inked his stories still himself, which meant an incredible amount of time, however, for him, as he was very slow in this work. Later, he once said: " An eight-page story would take me two weeks to complete if I would work seven days a week! " ( Original: " at eight page story would take me two weeks to do, working seven days a week "). As a result, he resigned soon after, to do it himself and let his two closest associates tuschen the stories Steve Steere and John Liggera.
Initially Strobl wrote no stories themselves but put only manuscripts by various authors to ( the only one at that time wrote his stories himself was Carl Barks ), which you can see very well at the different narrative styles of the individual works. Up to the 60s, it was mainly the case Carl Berg, Bob Gregory and Vic Lockman, who showed himself responsible for the stories. With the latter, Strobl also invented the character Moby Duck. Strobl also drew some stories that Carl Barks had written after his retirement in 1966; emphasize here is " The Legacy of Genghis Khan ". In later times Strobl wrote his stories, however, itself
Although his main work certainly consists of the stories of Donald Duck, the spectrum of shares subscribed by him stories is much more open. As mentioned above, he also created some stories with Woody Woodpecker and Bugs Bunny, whom he named one of his own statements about his favorite characters. But at Disney, he drew a wide variety of characters, such as Mickey Mouse and small eagle eye. He is probably one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his time and it is hardly possible to get Disney comic books from the years 1955-1970, without encountering stories of him.
His style can thereby readily seen by the concise simplicity. All the characters in it, especially the whole Duck family, it is also distinguished by an almost stoic calm that they put themselves in the most delicate situations on the day. This simple style has earned him a lot of fans, but also many opponents.
Publications with stories of Strobl ( incomplete)
USA
- Walt Disney 's Comics and Stories
- Walt Disney 's Donald Duck
- Walt Disney 's Uncle Scrooge
- Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse
- Christmas Parade
Germany
- Mickey Mouse Magazine
- The greatest stories of Donald Duck