Comic book artist Carl Fallberg is my 430th pick to be given the Disney Legends award. Carl started working at Disney Studios in 1935. During the
beginning of his career at Disney he worked as an assistant director and
storyman on the Disney animated features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
Fantasia, and Bambi.
Carl was noteworthy for scripting most of the Mickey Mouse
serials illustrated by Paul Murry that appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and
Stories from the early 1950s to 1973. He also specialized in creating colorful
characters inhabiting the various exotic locales that often reflected his love
of railroads. This provided narrative interest that compensated for the
generally bland personality Mickey Mouse had during this period. For almost a
decade and up until 1962, it was Fallberg and Murry who produced almost all of
those serials in Walt Disney Comics and Stories.
Besides working with Murry, Fallberg also freelanced to
write and illustrate Disney comic books of Li'l Bad Wolf, Jiminy Cricket,
Professor Ludwig Von Drake, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Gyro
Gearloose, Goofy, Chip 'n' Dale, and many others. From 1963-1989, Carl also
wrote scripts for the Disney Studio Program, and during 1974-1985 he wrote
scripts for the comic strips Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales (Sunday)
and Christmas specials (daily strip in December). The last comic book story
Carl wrote for Disney was "Goofy the Kid" in 1990.
Carl's "special" Disney projects included writing
the promotional comics Adventure in Disneyland (1955) for Richfield Oil and
Mickey and Goofy Explore Energy (1976) for Exxon, which he later redesigned to
promote the Epcot Universe of Energy attraction. He wrote the Sears Winnie the
Pooh Coloring Book in 1975, contributed to The Wonderful World of Disney
(1969–70) Gulf Oil giveaway magazine and provided the text for two of Whitman's
Big Little Books: Donald Duck and the Luck of the Ducks and Donald Duck and the
Fabulous Diamond Fountain
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