Bob Gregory

Robert "Bob" P. Gregory (* 20th October 1921 in Los Angeles , California ; † 5. December 2003 ) was a writer and artist from Disney - Comics .

biography

Bob Gregory was born in Los Angeles and attended the Otis Art Institute there , where he learned drawing in general and technical drawing in particular. He served in the South Pacific during World War II . After working as a technical draftsman for an aircraft manufacturer, he tried his hand at advertising graphics and magazine illustrator.

In 1957 he submitted various comic strip drafts with cartoon characters to Western Publishing , of which the Disney drawings were favored by editors Chase Craig and Del Connell and he was hired as a permanent freelance writer.

Already with his third story filed ( Christmas in Duckburg - Christmas in Duckburg , CP9, 1958) Gregory had unusual success, it was by Carl Barks drawn. From 1959 he wrote regularly for various magazines that published Disney comics, these stories were often drawn by Tony Strobl . He also later worked with Barks, including on Daisy Duck diary stories. He invented the Entenhausen Billionaires Club, later used by many other authors . From 1961 he also illustrated his own stories for the first time. He dealt almost exclusively with the Duck universe, hardly with Mickey Mouse , but also with other cartoon characters. From 1970 he drew almost every one of his stories himself.

In 1987 Gregory retired after drawing for Disney for 27 years. In 1996 his memories of the war appeared: Letters from the South Pacific . He died of pneumonia on December 5, 2003.

family

His daughter Roberta Gregory is also a comic book writer. She invented the feminist antihero Bitchy Bitch .