Last Of The Golden Age Artists

Year by year, the participants in animation's formative era drop overboard ...

Milton Quon, an animator who worked on such Disney classics as Fantasia and Dumbo, has died. He was 105.

Quon died June 18 of natural causes at his home in Torrance, California, his son, artist Mike Quon, told The Hollywood Reporter. One of the last living artists who worked at Disney during its Golden Age of Animation, he was "drawing right up until his last days." ...

Mr. Quon was a graduate of Chouinard Art Institute, and like a lot of Chouinard alumni, he went to Disney's in thelate 1930s because the Depression was on and the studio was hiring. He worked as an animation assistant befoe World War II, then headed up WDP's publicity department after the war.

Milton Quon left the House of Mouse in the early fifties to become art director of a nation advertising agency. (I would guess that one of the reasons for his departure was that advertising agencies paid considerably more than Disney did in the early fifties, when the studio had a reputation for paying low wages to most of its employees.)

As far as I know, there are no animators left from the ear of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi, Fantasia. Don lusk was the last of the animators. Milton Quon is, I think among the last of the assistants.

H/t Jenny Lerew.