Robert Louis "Bob" Karp was an American comics writer. He began
working for the Walt Disney Company in the 1930s, and from 1938 to
1974, he wrote the scripts for the daily Donald Duck newspaper
strips which were illustrated by Al Taliaferro and, after
Taliaferro's death in 1969, by Frank Grundeen.
Charles Alfred Taliaferro was born in Montrose, Colorado on August
29, 1905 and moved with his family to Glendale, California in 1918.
"I knew I was going to be a cartoonist," he told interviewer Jim
Korkis in 1968. "I've always believed that if you want anything bad
enough and you work hard enough for it, eventually you'll get it."
In the middle of the Great Depression in 1931 he learned that the
Walt Disney Studio had jobs available. "I went in and was hired on
the spot- January 5, 1931," he recalled. At first he inked Floyd
Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse newspaper strip. He then went on to draw
the Silly Symphonies Sunday page, where on September 16, 1934 he
first drew Donald Duck, the character with whom he would become
forever associated.
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