Monday, January 11, 2010
R.I.P. - Art Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) - Gumby Animator
1985 LA Times file photo by Mel Melcon
Legendary Art Clokey stop-motion animator, who with his wife, Ruth, created the stop-motion animation series Gumby and then later, the Davey and Goliath series, has died in California at 88.
From the New York Times:
Asparagus green and fashioned from clay, Gumby made his television debut in 1956 on “The Howdy Doody Show.” The next year, he became the star of “The Gumby Show,” in which he embarked on a string of gently quixotic adventures with his supple steed, Pokey. The series was one of the first extended uses of stop-motion animation on television.
Read the rest of the NYT’s obit. Also see the Los Angeles Times obit. Visit The Deep Archives for a detailed tribute to Clokey which includes Gumby storyboards and pictures of him at work animating.
