6/12/2023 0 Comments The Best of Pogo by Selby KellyKelly once stated that his salary at Disney averaged about $100 a week. Kelly worked for Disney from January 6, 1936, to September 12, 1941, contributing to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Dumbo and The Reluctant Dragon. Kelly and Kimball were so close that Kimball named his daughter Kelly Kimball in tribute. Starting over as an animator, Kelly became an assistant to noted Walt Disney animator Fred Moore and became close friends with Moore and Ward Kimball, one of Disney's Nine Old Men. Relocating to Southern California, he found a job at Walt Disney Productions as a storyboard artist and gag man on Donald Duck cartoons and other shorts, requesting a switch to the animation department in 1939. Kelly was extremely proud of his journalism pedigree and considered himself a newspaper man as well as a cartoonist. He also took up cartooning and illustrated a biography of fellow Bridgeport native P. After graduating from Warren Harding High School in 1930, Kelly worked at odd jobs until he was hired as a crime reporter on the Bridgeport Post. When he was two years old, the family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Kelly was born of Irish-American heritage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Walter Crawford Kelly, Sr., and Genevieve Kelly (née MacAnnula). (Aug– October 18, 1973), or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip, Pogo.
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