Jack Bradbury

Born 27 December 1914, Seattle; died 15 May 2004.

John Morin Bradbury was an American animator and comic book artist. Bradbury began working for Disney at age 20 and was responsible for key scenes in films like Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. After working briefly for Friz Freleng at Warner Bros., he began working for Western Publishing in 1947, illustrating Little Golden Books, other children's books, and comic books for the Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics imprints along with the Disney Studio Program. Reportedly, Walt Disney told Western that they didn't need his approval for any of Bradbury's work. Also, Bob Clampett specifically requested Bradbury to illustrate the comic book adaptation of his show Time for Beany.
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Born as: John Morin Bradbury
Also known as: JB
Pencils: 1,207 stories
Ink: 948 stories
Script: 43 stories
Plot: 43 stories
Subject: 24 stories

Stories

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Title	Year	By	As	Kind	Pages	Made in	Printings
The Silent Gun	1978	Jack Bradbury, Jaime Diaz Studio	plot, script	Story	19	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	27
Good Friends	1978	Bob Langhans, Jack Bradbury	pencils	Story	6	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	24
Trapped	1978	Jack Bradbury	pencils, ink	Story	8	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	23
The Expensive Lesson	1978	Bob Langhans, Jack Bradbury	pencils	Story	7	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	23
Zeke Of The Skies	1978	Bob Langhans, Jack Bradbury	pencils	Story	6	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	21
The Sky Is Falling	1978	Ed Nofziger, Jack Bradbury	pencils	Story	11	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	20
Borrowing Trouble	1978	Jack Bradbury, Jaime Diaz Studio	plot, script	Story	9	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	20
Happy Birthday...the Hard Way	1978	Jack Bradbury, Jaime Diaz Studio	plot, script	Story	11	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	20
Bodyguard For The Chips	1978	Ed Nofziger, Jack Bradbury	pencils	Story	10	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	19
Grandma's Goofy Performance	1978	Jack Bradbury, Jaime Diaz Studio	plot, script	Story	13	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	17
It's All In The Mood	1978	Ed Nofziger, Jack Bradbury	pencils	Story	10	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	15
Have A Nice Day	1978	Ed Nofziger, Jack Bradbury	pencils	Story	9	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	14
The Puppet's Puppet	1978	Jack Bradbury	pencils, ink	Story	5	Disney Studio (foreign market stories)	9

Life and work

Comics. Editorial Art Syndicate/Sangor Shop: Comic-book artwork c. 1942-1950 for the publishers American Comics Group, D.C./National and Pines. - Western Publishing: Comic-book artwork 1950-mid 1970s (Warner Bros., Walter Lantz, and Disney). - Disney Studios 1963-1980s: Comic-book artwork for foreign-market comic-book stories. Due to failing eyesight he stopped drawing comics in 1978 and concentrated on scripting and designing merchandising products.

Animation. Disney Studios 1934-1941: Clean-up artist on Snow White, inbetweener on Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies, animator on Pinocchio, Fantasia (Pastoral Symphony segment) and Bambi. - Warner Bros.: Layout artist 1942-1944 (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck). - Carry-Westen (independant studio with Gil Turner a.o.): Educational films for the government etc. 1944-1945.

Also. Left the Disney Studios after the big strike in 1941 and worked at various odd jobs until he was hired by Warner Bros.

Education. No art training.

Characters most often

Mickey Mouse4531949–1950, 1952–1984
Goofy4071950, 1952–1961, 1963–1984
Donald Duck2711950, 1952–1958, 1960–1980
Chip2011954–1962, 1968–1969, 1971–1972, 1974–1980
Dale1991954–1962, 1968–1969, 1971–1972, 1974–1980
Huey, Dewey and Louie1821950, 1952–1958, 1960–1963, 1965–1972, 1975, 1977, 1979–1980
Pluto1351952–1961, 1963–1966, 1969, 1971–1975, 1979, 1981, 1983
The Big Bad Wolf1281953–1964, 1966, 1969, 1973–1978, 1980–1983, 1986
Minnie Mouse1191952–1961, 1963–1964, 1966–1975, 1977–1979, 1981–1984
Morty and Ferdie1171949, 1952–1960, 1962–1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983
Uncle Scrooge1161952–1956, 1958, 1960–1970, 1972–1975
Li'l Bad Wolf1051953–1964, 1969, 1972–1975, 1977–1978, 1980–1983, 1986

Works most with

Ellis Eringer1331965–1970
Steve Steere881961, 1966–1967, 1969–1972, 1974–1975, 1977–1981
Carl Fallberg851953–1966, 1968, 1970, 1972–1973
Don Christensen521952–1964, 1966–1967
Jaime Diaz Studio401978–1984, 1986
Vic Lockman301958–1961, 1963–1966, 1974–1975
Del Connell141952–1953, 1955–1956, 1959
Ed Nofziger131977–1980
Dick Kinney131965–1969
Bob Langhans101977–1981
Bob Gregory31961
William F. Nolan21955–1956