4 September 2008 7:29 AM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news
AP reports that Bill Melendez, the animator behind the great Peanuts cartoons and the voice of Snoopy and Woodstock, died of natural causes Tuesday in Santa Monica at the age of 91.
Besides Peanuts, Melendez also worked on Mickey Mouse cartoons and classic animated features such as Pinocchio and Fantasia for Disney, Bugs Bunny,Porky Pig and Daffy Duck shorts for Warner Bros., and "Gerald McBoing-Boing" for Upa, which won the 1951 Academy Award for best cartoon short.
Melendez was the only person Charles Schulz authorized to animate his characters.
And if you have to ask what it's all about... well, here:
Mark Evanier, to no one's surprise, has more about Bill Melendez.
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