Manuel Gonzales (March 3, 1913 - March 31, 1993) was a Spanish-American Disney comics artist. Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Disney comics are Comic books and Comic strips featuring Walt Disney characters He emigrated from Spain to the USA in 1918 via Ellis Island, and was employed at the Walt Disney Studios in September 1936, where he initially worked as an "in-betweener" on the motion picture, Snow White. Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor Snow White (in Low German Sneewittchen; in High German Schneeweißchen) is the title character of a Fairy tale known from many countries in
Later working in the comic strip department, Gonzales took over the illustrating of the Mickey Mouse Sunday page from Floyd Gottfredson in 1938. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Arthur Floyd Gottfredson ( May 5, 1905 &mdash July 22, 1986) was an American Cartoonist best known for his defining work Only interrupted by his military service for the USA in World War II from 1942 to 1945, Gonzales performed this job until his retirement in 1981. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including During the war, he worked for the U. S. Army as an artist animating short newsreel clips promoting war bonds and the war effort.
Bill Walsh wrote the scripts for the Sunday pages from 1946 to 1963. Bill Walsh ( September 30, 1913 - January 27, 1975) was a Film producer and Screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action These pages told funny stories from Mickey's everyday life (Mickey was portrayed as a "guy next door" - a middle class citizen with a normal life), as well as doing sometimes surrealistic gags featuring Gonzales' specialty, Goofy. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members Goofy is an Animated cartoon character from Walt Disney 's Mickey Mouse universe. Gonzales and Walsh also introduced a new character to the Disney universe, the intelligent and witty bird Ellsworth, in 1950. Ellsworth is a Fictional character, created by Bill Walsh and Manuel Gonzales in 1949, in the Mickey Mouse universe for The Walt In general, the Sunday pages have status as better than Gottfredson's daily gags of the time (also written by Walsh).
Beside the Sunday pages, Gonzales did several other works for Disney. He inked Donald Duck and Scamp dailies, illustrated newspaper comic adaptations of different Disney films, like Song Of The South, and illustrated some Disney books. Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. In the 1955 movie Lady and the Tramp, Scamp is the son of the title characters Lady and Tramp, seen only briefly at the end of the movie
Gonzales grew up in Westfield, Massachusetts, where he went to school and picked tobacco during summer jobs as a boy. Westfield is a city in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, United States. He later lived and went to art school in New York City. His father, walking home from work one late-summer evening in 1936, tore a flyer from a telephone pole and gave it to Manuel after dinner. The flyer invited artists to bring their portfolios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a job opportunity. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, Manuel was interviewed and hired on the spot, given $200 and told to report in two weeks to the Hyperion Studios in Los Angeles to work as an animator. His first assignment was as an "in-betweener" on what was to be the first animated full-length major motion picture, Snow White, for a man he'd never heard of before named Walt Disney. Snow White (in Low German Sneewittchen; in High German Schneeweißchen) is the title character of a Fairy tale known from many countries in Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter
Manuel received two "Mousecars" personally from Walt Disney in his career. The Mousecar is a prestigious In house award given by the Walt Disney Studios for a variety of reasons including service to the studio as well as to the community The Mousecar was a much covetted award, given to the artists who had most significantly impacted the company's success. Modeled after the Oscar, which is awarded annually for achievement by the Academy of Motion Pictures, the Mousecar is a bronze statuette of Mickey Mouse in his trademark pose on a black base. Walt, who was very fond of his artists, used to joke that Manuel had signed Walt's name (which Manuel would sign on every comic strip he'd draw) more than Walt himself had in his lifetime.
External links
- Manuel Gonzales at the INDUCKS
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