Walt Kelly: Difference between revisions

| area = Animator, cartoonist, newspaper journalist, poet, American singer

'''Walter Crawford Kelly Jr.''' (August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973), commonly known as '''Walt Kelly''', was an American [[animator]] and [[cartoonist]], best known for the [[comic strip]] ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.answers.com/search|title=Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions|website=www.answers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pogopossum.com/walt.htm |title=Kelly, Walt. "An Autobiography by the Creator of Pogo." Official Pogo Website. 1954. |access-date=2011-09-15 |archive-date=2011-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002060044/http://www.pogopossum.com/walt.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He began his animation career in 1936 at [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Studios]], contributing to ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'', ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'', and ''[[Dumbo]]''. In 1941, at the age of 28, Kelly transferred to work at [[Dell Comics]], where he created ''Pogo'', which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary.