Anton Loeb was a cartoonist

Cartoonist

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, illustrator

Illustrator

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 and theatrical animator

Animator

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Loeb illustrated children's books in the late 1940s, including a collection of Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables

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 in a book called Storytime Favorites. Loeb worked primarily as Paramount

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's lead theatrical animator throughout the 1950s, and then moved on to TV animation in the 1960s, doing background art. He worked for the Fleischer Brothers, who produced the Popeye

Popeye

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cartoons and did the illustrations for Allan Chaffee's version of The Wizard Of Oz

Tales of the Wizard of Oz

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, adapted from L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

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's 1900 classic original. This abridge

Abridge

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d version was published in 1950 by Random House

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Anton Loeb died on December 10, 1984 in Miami, Florida of cancer at the age of 76.