Bob Karp

Born 1911; died 1975.

Born as: Robert Louis Karp
Also known as: BKa
Script: 18,040 stories
Plot: 18,024 stories
Subject: 10 stories
Ink: 5 stories
Pencils: 5 stories

232 stories

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Title	Year	By	As	Kind	Pages	Made in	Printings
Pardon the Wink	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	74
Laying Down Exercises	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	73
He Takes the Cake	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	73
I Want to Be Alone	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	72
For a Rainy Day	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	71
Obediant Bird	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	64
Anything to Oblige	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	60
The Minute Man	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	59
Dearest Enemy	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	58
Misery Loves Company	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	58
Chips Off he Old Quack	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	58
The Bank Roll	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	58
Out of the Frying Pant	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	58
Law of Preservation	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	58
Time and Tide Await No One	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	57
Fifty-Fifty	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	55
Just In Time For Dinner	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	53
A Hole In One	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	53
I Want to Be Alone	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	52
Taken for a Ride	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	51
'Morning, Judge'	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	51
Spare That Tree	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	50
Lazy Bones	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	50
Mr. Woodpecker Goes Picketing	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	50
A Two-Way Stretch	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	49
The Star Boarder	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	49
Donald With An Ax to Grind!	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	48
Nine Points of the Law	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	47
But a Cat Has Nine Lives	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	47
Food Is Where You Find It	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	47
A Dizzy Watch Dog	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	47
There's One Born Every Minute	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	47
Donald's Golf Game	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	47
We Have With Us Today!	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	46
Get A Horse	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	46
Spring is in the Air	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	45
Won't Roll Off a Duck's Back	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	45
Gluton for Punishment	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	45
A Mocking Bird!	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	45
Donald's Got An Ax to Grind	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	45
Warm Friendship	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	45
Where there's Smoke, there's Fire	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	44
And Gus Said "Goo-Goo"	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	44
New Fields to Conquer	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	44
The Mother of Invention	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	44
Boys Will Be Boys	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	44
Rockabye, Baby	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	44
Darwin Had Something There	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	43
Gone With the Wind	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
He Was Playing "William Tell"	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
The Sheriff Goes Crabbing	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
If at First Youn Don't Succeed	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
All Aboard	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
The Nature of the Beast	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
Double Handicap	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
Local Showers	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
Getting Nowhere Fast	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
A Drone in the Beehive	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
Youngsters Are So Timid	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42
The Boys Pull Some Dry Humor	1938	Bob Karp, Al Taliaferro	plot, script	Newspaper strip	1	Daily strips (US)	42

Life and work

Comics. Disney Studios: Script for newspaper strips (Donald Duck 1938-1974, Merry Menagerie 1947-1962). - Editorial Art Syndicate/Sangor Shop: Comic book scripts for American Comics Group and Standard Comics 1945-1947 (Giggle, Ha Ha, Hurry Hare a.o.). - Script for the newspaper strip The Middles 1946-1950.

Animation. Disney Studios late 1930s: Worked in the character model department before he began to write the Donald Duck strip. - Filmation Associates: Storyman 1960s (Aquaman, Batman, Green Lantern, Superboy, Mighty Hercules o.a.).

Also. Brother of Hubie Karp and Lynn Karp.

Education. College of St. Thomas

Characters most often

Donald Duck13,2801938–1975, 1995, 2010, 2015
Huey, Dewey and Louie4,7061938–1975, 2015
Daisy Duck2,8871940–1975, 2015
Uncle Scrooge9141951, 1955, 1960–1975
Ludwig Von Drake5991961–1975
Fido from ZD 59-07-191331959, 1963–1975
Bolivar1061938–1948
Brain791962–1974
Grandma Duck691943–1944, 1948, 1950–1951, 1953–1954, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1968, 1970–1972, 1974–1975
Taffy from ZD 53-05-10621953–1955, 1957, 1959–1963
Basil591938–1945, 1947, 1951, 1953, 1995
Donald's black cat501938–1946, 1953–1954, 1956–1957, 1966–1967

Works most with

Al Taliaferro10,8891938–1969, 1995, 2015
Bob Grant4,5011947–1962
Frank Grundeen2,7151967–1975
George Waiss1,1741943–1946
Ellis Eringer5181965–1967
Dick Moores1611942–1943, 1952
Al Hubbard1051965
Kay Wright981965
Karl Karpé981941–1942
Bill Weaver711967
Manuel Gonzales561955–1957
Ben De Nunez521957, 1961

Printed most in

United States18,033
Sweden14,450
Netherlands7,824
Norway6,748
Italy6,490
Finland6,111
France5,989
Brazil5,334
Denmark4,498
Germany3,346
Spain2,962
Yugoslavia2,595