Ub Iwerks

Born 24 March 1901, Kansas City, Missouri; died 8 July 1971, Burbank, California.

Ub Iwerks was an American animator, cartoonist, film director, film producer, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician. He was widely known for his early work with Walt Disney Productions, especially for having worked on the creation of Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, among other characters.
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Born as: Ubbe Ert Iwwerks
Pencils: 33 stories
Subject: 21 stories
Ink: 9 stories
Script: 0 stories
Plot: 0 stories

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Title	Year	By	As	Kind	Pages	Made in	Printings
Untitled painting	2010	Ub Iwerks	pencils, ink	Painting	1	Posters and other promotional material	4
Il vulcanico Ub	2010	LBs?AB	subject	Article	<1	Non-Disney and/or non-comics	2

Life and work

Comics. Disney Studios: Comic-book artwork for newspaper strips 1930 (Mickey Mouse).

Animation. Director and leading animator at Walt Disney's first studio Laugh-O-Gram Films in Kansas City 1922-1923 and at the Disney Studios in Hollywood 1924-1930. - Head of his own studio 1930-1940. Directed/animated his own series of shorts (Flip the Frog, Willie Whopper, Comicolor Cartoons). Also subcontracted for other studios: Warner Bros. 1937 (Porky Pig), Columbia Pictures 1936-1940 (Scrappy, Color Rhapsodies) and Cartoons Limited 1940 (Gran' Pop Monkey). - Returned to the Disney Studios in 1940 to work with special effects and to develop new production techniques.

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