Carl Robert Fallberg was a cartoonist

Cartoonist

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 and artist

Artist

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 who created animated feature films and T.V. cartoons for Disney Studios

Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)

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, Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

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, and Warner Brothers. He also wrote comic books for Disney Comics

Disney Comics

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, Dell Comics

Dell Comics

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, Western Publishing

Western Publishing

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, and Gold Key Comics

Golden Comics Digest

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Early life

Carl Robert Fallberg was born in Cleveland, Tennessee on 11 September, 1915 to Carl Fallberg (Sr.), and Gunhild Fallberg (née Söjostedt), who both taught music at the Centenary College Conservatory in Cleveland, Tennessee from 1910-1917. Carl was the middle child of three, with an older sister Lisa Lena "Dixie" and younger sister Elinor. The family moved to Chicago, and in 1931 when Carl was fourteen years old, his mother died, leaving Carl and his two sisters motherless for several years.

Carl attended Nicholas Senn High School

Senn High School

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 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1934, Carl sent a letter with samples of his artwork to Disney asking for employment. Carl was offered a job and started to work for Disney Studios, which was then located at 2719 Hyperion Avenue in Hollywood, in 1935.

Carl and his sister Elinor lived in rooming house on Angus Street in then Hollywood, just a few blocks from the Hyperion Studios. It was there he meet his future wife, Becky Dorner, the daughter of the family who owned the rooming house. During WWII, his sister Elinor and his future wife Becky, worked at Disney Studios, while Carl was serving in the U.S. Marines at Quantico, Virginia

Marine Corps Base Quantico

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 as part of the Marine Corps film unit.

After the war, Becky and Carl where married in 1946 and had one child, Carla Fallberg. Becky continued to work for Disney Studios, eventually becoming the Manager of the Ink and Paint Department while Carl went on to work as a professional cartoonist freelancing

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 for Disney, Hanna Barbera, and several other cartoon studios and comic book

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 publishers

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Professional Cartoonist

Carl had a life-long passion for the “narrow gauge" railroad lines connecting the mountain mining towns of Colorado. This love of narrow gauge railroads in early mining communities was expressed through his cartoon drawings published in his Fiddletown & Copperopolis comic strip which appeared in Railroad Magazine. During the early 1980's, Carl compiled all his Fiddletown and Copperopolis cartoons into a book. The resulting "Fiddletown and Copperopolis - The life and times of an uncommon carrier" was published in 1985.

From his early days at Disney, Carl shared his enthusiasm for Colorado's narrow gauge railroads with Ward Kimball

Ward Kimball

Ward Walrath Kimball was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men.-Career:...

 and the Grizzly Flats Railroad

Grizzly Flats Railroad

The Grizzly Flats Railroad was a long narrow gauge railroad in San Gabriel, California, owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball. It was the first full-sized backyard railroad in the United States and was operated from 1942 to 2006.-History:...

, and brought the theme to numerious comic books he wrote, such as "Micky Mouse in the Vanishing Railroad".

Carl Fallberg was a member of the Animation Guild I.A.T.S.E. Local 839.

Disney

Carl started working at Disney Studios in 1935. During the beginning of his career at Disney he worked as an assistant director and storyman on the Disney animated features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

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, Fantasia

Fantasia (film)

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, and Bambi

Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 American animated film directed by David Hand , produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten...

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Carl was noteworthy for scripting most of the Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse

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 serials illustrated by Paul Murry

Paul Murry

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 that appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

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from the early 1950s to 1973. He also specialized in creating colorful characters inhabiting the various exotic locales that often reflected his love of railroads. This provided narrative interest that compensated for the generally bland personality Mickey Mouse had during this period. For almost a decade and up until 1962, it was Fallberg and Murry who produced almost all of those serials in Walt Disney Comics and Stories.

Besides working with Murry, Fallberg also freelanced to write and illustrate Disney comic books of Li'l Bad Wolf, Jiminy Cricket

Jiminy Cricket

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, Professor Ludwig Von Drake

Ludwig Von Drake

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, Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck

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, Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse

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, Donald Duck

Donald Duck

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, Gyro Gearloose

Gyro Gearloose

Gyro Gearloose is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic chicken created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company. He is part of the Scrooge McDuck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge and anyone who is associated with them. He was also a frequent star...

, Goofy

Goofy

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, Chip 'n' Dale, and many others. From 1963-1989, Carl also wrote scripts for the foreign-market comic book stories, and during 1974-1985 he wrote scripts for the Treasury of Classic Tales (Sunday page) and Christmas specials (daily strip in December) newspaper strips. The last comic book Carl wrote for Disney was "Goofy the Kid" in 1990.

Carl's "special" Disney projects included writing the 1955 television Adventure in Disneyland segment (the Richfield Oil Giveaway offered at Disneyland), and the 1976 television Mickey and Goofy Explore Energy segment for Exxon, which he later redesigned to promote the Epcot Universe of Energy attraction. He wrote the Sears Winnie the Pooh Coloring Book in 1975, several issues of Disney Magazines such as The Wonderful World of Disney 1969-1970, and Whitman"s Big Little Books featuring Donald Duck and the Luck of the Ducks and Donald Duck and the Fabulous Diamon Fountain.

Hanna-Barbera

From 1972 through 1981, Carl worked as a storyman and story director on the Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

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 cartoon television shows: Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo

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, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973 for NBC...

, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch

Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch

Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch is a 30-minute cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired for one season on NBC from September 7, 1974 to August 30, 1975...

, The All-New Popeye Hour

The All-New Popeye Hour

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, Laugh-a-Lympics

Laff-A-Lympics

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, The Three Robonic Stooges

The Robonic Stooges

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 and The Kwicky Koala Show

The Kwicky Koala Show

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. Carl also wrote for the Hanna-Barbera comic books of: The Flintstones

The Flintstones

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, Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear

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, Huckleberry Hound

Huckleberry Hound

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, and The Jetsons

The Jetsons

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Warner Bros.

From 1953 through the early 1970s, Carl wrote for the Warner Bros. Animation

Warner Bros. Animation

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 characters of Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny

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, Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck

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, Mary Jane & Sniffles

Sniffles

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, and Speedy Gonzales

Speedy Gonzales

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, and was story directory for Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam

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, Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. Also in this time period, Fallberg wandered back into animation working on the Warner Bros. Speedy and Daffy Show.

Other Cartoon Comic Books

His work for MGM comic books included The Addams Family

The Addams Family (TV series)

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, Tom & Jerry

Tom and Jerry

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, Droopy, and Screwy Squirrel, and Mr. Magoo

Mr. Magoo

Quincy Magoo is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem...

 for UPA

United Productions of America

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, and The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther

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 and The Inspector

The Inspector

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 for DePatie-Freleng

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

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. For Walter Lantz, Carl wrote Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures...

, Andy Panda

Andy Panda

Andy Panda is a cartoon character who starred in his own series of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Walter Lantz. These "cartunes" were released by Universal Pictures from 1939 to 1947 and United Artists from 1948 to 1949. The titular character is an anthropomorphic cartoon character, a...

, Chilly Willy

Chilly Willy

Chilly Willy is a cartoon character, a diminutive anthropomorphic penguin living in Alaska, although the species is native only to the southern hemisphere. He was created by Paul J. Smith for the Walter Lantz studio in 1953...

, and Homer Pigeon

Homer Pigeon

Homer Pigeon is a Walter Lantz character, who made his first appearance in the cartoon "Pigeon Patrol", in 1942. His final appearance was in 1964, in The Woody Woodpecker Show episode "Spook-A-Nanny"...

 comic books.

Feature Films

• 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (assistant director - uncredited)
• 1942, Bambi (story development)
• 1940 and 1999, Fantasia (story development and writer for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment)
• WWII, US Army: Animator of educational and propaganda films

Television

• 1971, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (TV series) (story director - 1 episode)
• 1972, The New Scooby-Doo Movies (TV series) (story director - 16 episodes)
• 1972, Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space (TV series) (story director - 16 episodes)
• 1972, The Flintstone Comedy Hour (TV series) (story director)
• 1972, The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (TV series) (story director - 1 episode)
• 1973, The Roman Holidays (TV series) (story director - 2 episodes)
• 1973, The Addams Family (TV series) (story director - 5 episodes)
• 1973, Butch Cassidy (TV series) (story director)
• 1974, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (TV series) (storyboard editor)
• 1977, The Skatebirds (TV series) (story director)
• 1978, Dinky Dog (TV series) (story director)
• 1978, Yogi's Space Race (TV series) (story director)
• 1978, Galaxy Goof-Ups (TV series) (story director)
• 1978-79, The All-New Popeye Hour (TV series) (story director)
• 1980, The Flintstone Comedy Show (TV series) (story director and writer - 1 episode)
• 1981, The Kwicky Koala Show (TV series) (story director and writer - 16 episodes)
• 1984, Flintstone Funnies (writer)

Publications

Carl Robert Fallberg publications:

• 1949, Carl Fallberg. p. 108, "Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry. (No. 5)," Railroad magazine, Vol. 47, no. 4. New York, Frank A. Munsey Co.
  
• 1950, Carl Fallberg. p. 114, "Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry. (No. 20)," Railroad magazine, Vol. 51, no. 3. New York, Frank A. Munsey Co.
  
• 1950, Carl Fallberg. p. 116, "Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry. (No. 27),".Railroad magazine, Vol. 53, no. 2. New York, Frank A. Munsey Co.
  
• 1952, Carl Fallberg. p. 94, "Fiddletown & Copperopolis (No. 42)," Railroad magazine, Vol. 57, no. 1. Kokomo, IN, Popular Publications.
  
• 1952, Carl Fallberg. p. 112, "Fiddletown & Copperopolis (No. 44)," Railroad magazine, Vol. 57, no. 3. Kokomo, IN, Popular Publications
  
• 1952, Carl Fallberg. p. 119, "Fiddletown & Copperopolis (No. 46)," Railroad magazine, Vol. 58, no. 1. Kokomo, IN, Popular Publications
  
• 1953, Carl Fallberg. p. 100, "Fiddletown & Copperopolis (No. 56)," Railroad magazine., Vol. 60, no. 3. Kokomo, IN, Popular Publications
  
• 1955, Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry. Micky Mouse in Walkie Doggie, Dell/Western.
  
• 1956, Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry. Micky Mouse in the Vanishing Railroad, Dell/Western.
  
• 1957, Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry. Micky Mouse in The Legend of Loon Lake, Dell/Western.
• 1957, Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry. Micky Mouse The Phantom Fires, Dell/Western.
• 1967, Carl Fallberg. Walt Disney's Donald Duck - The fabulous diamond fountain. Racine, WI,: Western Publishing Co.
  
• 1967, Carl Fallberg. Tom and Jerry meet Mr. Fingers. Racine, WI, Whitman Pub. Co.
• 1967, Carl Fallberg. Mickey Mouse the super sword. Racine, WI, Western Pub. Co., ISBN: 0307619346 9780307619341
  
• 1968, Carl Fallberg. Beep beep the road runner - The super beep-catcher. Racine, WI, Western
  
• 1968, Carl Fallberg. Hanna-Barbera's Frankenstein, Jr. - The menace of the heartless monster. Racine, WI, Whitman Pub. Co.
  
• 1974, Carl Fallberg. Beep beep the Road Runner - The lost road runner mine. Racine, WI, Western Pub. Co.
  
• 1984, Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry. Mickey Mouse - The super sword, New York, Western Pub., ISBN: 0307119343 9780307119346
  
• 1985, Carl Fallberg. Fiddletown & Copperopolis - The life and times of an uncommon carrier. Rev. 2nd ed. River Forest, IL, Heimburger House Pub. Co. ISBN: 0911581049 (pbk.) 9780911581041 (pbk.)
  
• 1990, Carl Fallberg, Al Hubbard, Rudyard Kipling, Jane Werner Watson. Walt Disney's classic the Jungle book. Burbank, CA Walt Disney Publications, ISBN: 1561150479 9781561150472
  
• 1991, Carl Fallberg. Walt Disney's classic 101 Dalmatians. Burbank, CA : W.D. Publications, ISBN: 1-56115-140-8
  
• 2008, Carl Fallberg, Robert Klein, Pat McGreal, Carol McGreal. Walt Disney's Comics 691. Paw Prints, ISBN: 9781439557471 1439557470
  
• 2010, Aaron Sparrow, Chirs Meyer, Christopher Burns comic book editor, Jason Long comic book editor, Carl Fallberg ("Yesterday Ranch"), Paul Murry, Erika Terriquez, Floyd Gottfredson, Earl Duvall, Dick Moores, George Waiss, Bill Walsh, Manuel Gonzales. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse classics - Mouse mayhem. Los Angeles, Boom Kids!, ISBN: 9781608865444.
  

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