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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Paul Murrys gags

Read online the walking dead Several gags by Paul Murry, who worked as an inbetweener and animator for Disney on Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo. While at Disney, he also created newspaper comic strips featuring Mickey Mouse and characters from Saludos Amigos (Joe Carioca and Panchito) and did strips for Uncle Remus featuring Brer Rabbit. From 1946 to 1984 he worked for Western Publishing, creating hundreds of comics, mainly Mickey Mouse stories.

But Murry also created gags for several other magazines, among them he worked for Humorama, a division of Martin Goodmans publishing firm (Goodman founded Timely Comics, which turned into Marvel Comics in 1961). Humoramas magazines published pin up cartoons and a whole lot of naughty photos of Betty Page and many other strippers/actresses in the 1950s and 1960s!





Here is another gag from Murry for Humorama, with the preliminary version below:



Some more quick gags, a little rougher, preliminary versions with pencil only. To identify his drawings (which he send to publishers), all gags cary visibly notable his peronal address at the time, on the reverse side (top left). 










Flipped horizontally, adding more contrast and changing the exposure, clearly shows Mr. Murry lived on 1300 S. (South) Orange Street in Glendale, California during his time at the Disney Studios: this location. 


The spicy drawings show a different address for Mr. Murry, 760 W. Avenue H-7, Lancaster California, which is this location today. These houses were build in 1957, which is exactly the time period Goodmans company published their line of Humorama magazines. 







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