Winnie the Pooh

[Armando Botto]

Søren, Ari:
>>I received the following from EKTomp at aol.com
----------
I am hoping you can help me. I have been all over the internet trying to
find who continued drawing Winnie the Pooh after E.H. Shepard passed away.
If you happen to know can you please let me know?
> I wonder if Elizabeth has mixed up movies, comics and book illustrations.
Aren't the book illustrations always the ones Shepard drew in 1920s and
colored in 1970s? And, of course, Shepard hadn't much (probably anything?)
to do with Disney-versions of Pooh.

I guess Ari is right. Anyway, here's a summary of what Alberto Becattini
writes in his "Disney Comics 1930-1995" book (integrated with info taken
from the Inducks):

Disney acquired the rights to the A.A. Milne book in 1964, and the first WTP
movie ("Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree") was released in 1966. The
animators took inspiration from the E.H. Shepard illustrations.
A comic-strip version of the movie (and of the 2 following ones) appeared in
the newspapers' Sunday pages, as part of the series "Treasury of Classic
Tales". It was scripted by Frank Reilly and drawn by John Ushler.

In 1978, the WTP syndicated strip (daily and Sunday) appeared. It was
scripted by Don Ferguson and drawn by Richard "Sparky" Moore, and went on
until 1988, when it was discontinued.

WTP was featured also in comic books: the "Winnie the Pooh" series was
published in the U.S: from 1977 to 1984, with most of the stories drawn by
John Carey and Pete Alvarado. A few stories appeared also in "Walt Disney's
Comics and Stories"; others were produced by the Disney Studio for the
overseas market. And many stories have been produced in Europe, too
(Denmark, France, Holland...).

Ciao,
Armando