Bob Gregory

Robert "Bob" P. Gregory (born October 20, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, December 5, 2003) was a copywriter of Disney comics. BiographyChange source

Bob Gregory was born in Los Angeles and attended the Otis Art Institute where he learned drawing in general and technical drawing in particular. In the Second World War he served in the South Pacific. After working as a technical draftsman at an airline manufacturer he tried to become a commercial graphic artist and magazine illustrator.

In 1957, he presented various comic designs with cartoon characters at Western Publishing, the Disney drawings of which were coined by editors Chase Craig and Del Connell, and he was hired as a freelance author.

Already with his third submitted story (Christmas in Duckburg - Christmas in Entenhausen, CP9, 1958) Gregory had unusual success, it was drawn by Carl Barks. From 1959 he wrote regularly for various magazines that published Disney Comics, these stories were often drawn by Tony Strobl. He later worked with Barks, including Daisy Duck's diary stories. He invented the Entenhausen billionaire club, which was later used by many other authors. From 1961 he illustrated his own stories for the first time. He was concerned almost exclusively with the Duck universe, hardly with Micky Mouse, but also with other trick figures. From 1970 onwards he drew almost every one of his own stories.

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

His daughter Roberta Gregory is also a comic author. She invented the feminist anti-hero Bitchy Bitch. Standard data (person): GND: 119487462 (PICA, AKS) | LCCN: n95099982 VIAF: 42649395 | Wikipedia People Search

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