Arthur Gottfredson, Cartoonist, Dies at 81
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson, who drew the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip for 45 years, has died at age 81. Gottfredson died Tuesday after a lengthy illness, Walt Disney Pictures said in a statement released Thursday.
The Utah native started working for Walt Disney Studios in 1929, smoothing out the motions in animated films.
But after four months, the late Walt Disney asked him to work temporarily on the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip.
Gottfredson continued drawing the daily cartoon until he retired in 1975.
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