Robert P. Gregory was an American

United States

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 comics

Comics

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 artist and writer best known for writing and/or drawing hundreds of Gold Key

Gold Key

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 comics starring the Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures

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 character Donald Duck

Donald Duck

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most...

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Biography

Bob Gregory attended the Otis Art Institute and fought in World War II

World War II

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 before working as a technical illustrator for an aircraft manufacturer. He began submitting art sketches to Western Publishing

Western Publishing

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, for which he began freelancing on a steady basis in 1958 — first as a writer, then as a writer-artist both writer and artist — on many of Western's funny animal

Funny animal

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 comics, including the Donald Duck comics produced under license by Western's Gold Key Comics.

He introduced the Billionaires Club of Duckburg, where Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck

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 is a member, in the story The Christmas Cha Cha (1959), written by Gregory and illustrated by Carl Barks

Carl Barks

Carl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , The Junior Woodchucks , Gyro Gearloose , Cornelius Coot , Flintheart Glomgold , John D...

. After having done Scrooge McDuck universe

Scrooge McDuck universe

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 comics only in his early career, he started doing Aristocats stories in the 1970s, when he also penciled most issues of Daisy and Donald, co-starring Daisy Duck

Daisy Duck

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. Gregory did some other comics as well.

His World War II memoirs, Letters from the South Pacific, was published in 1996.

The official cause of death was listed as pneumonia

Pneumonia

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Gregory's daughter, Roberta Gregory

Roberta Gregory

Roberta Gregory is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits.Gregory's father was Disney comics artist Bob Gregory...

, is also a cartoonist, best known for her character Bitchy Bitch.

External links

• Bob Gregory in the I.N.D.U.C.K.S.
  I.N.D.U.C.K.S.
  The International Network of Disney Universe Comic Knowers and Sources or Inducks is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney Universe comics ever printed in the world. It is an international project which provides indexes of around 90,000 Disney comic publications worldwide. It is...