Philip DeLara (1911–1973) was a
Warner Bros. Cartoons animator and
Disney comics
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,
MGM
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and
Hanna-Barbera
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artist.
As an animator, he worked on
Bugs Bunny
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,
Porky Pig
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and
Daffy Duck
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and later on
Speedy Gonzales
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, and
The Tasmanian Devil, among others.
At
Western Publishing
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, he was the main artist of
Walt Disney Animation Studios
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's
Chip 'n' Dale
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Concept
The characters were first drawn by Bill Justice an ...
comics, but also drew
Donald Duck
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,
Gyro Gearloose
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and
Uncle Scrooge
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as well as
Mickey Mouse
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comics for the foreign-market Disney Studio stories.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Philip cartooned and graduated from
Franklin High School and studied at the
Otis Art Institute
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. After he studied, he drew for the Junior Times for eleven years with
Cal Howard and Irv Spector. Warner Bros Cartoons was the first animation studio he worked for.
References
* Jerry Bails, ''The Who's Who of American comic''.
* ''Chi é Phil Delara ?'', Alberto Becattini in Zio Paperone (Italian Uncle Scrooge comic-book), 1998
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* ''Phil DeLara'' by T. Lappoussière, Biography in ''Backup'' 9, 2001 (part 1) and Bibliography in ''Backup 12'', 2002 (part 2)
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* ''Phil DeLara'' in Donaldisten solohefte 1, 1983.
lambiek.netSchlesinger's Exposure Sheet 1.2
External links
*
at the
Lambiek Comiclopedia
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*
Philip B Debara in the 1940 CensusPhilip B Delara, Born 9/01/1911 in California
1914 births
1973 deaths
20th-century American artists
American animators
American comics artists
Disney comics artists
Warner Bros. Cartoons people
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