Carl Buettner was an artist of Disney comics from the 1940s. Coming from a family with German origins, Buettner was born in 1903 in Minneapolis. There, he studied at the Federal School of Art until the 1930s. In 1935 he cooperated on the satirical Captain Billy's Whiz Bang magazine, drawing illustrations and cartoons. He moved to California, where he joined the Disney Studios. He stayed there for a couple of years, before joining another animation studios, led by former Disney animators Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising.
In 1938 Buettner met the famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. He was then assigned to take over the syndicated comic version of Bergen's puppet character Charlie McCarthy, famous from theatre, TV and cinema. For the job he teamed up with Chase Craig, with whom he had also created the shortlived 'Hollywood Hams' daily. Both Buettner and Craig joined Western Publishing in 1942. Buettner soon became art director there. At Western, Buettner worked on Warner Bros characters, as well as Disney characters. He was one of the early artists to draw 'Joe Carioca'. He also illustrated comics with 'Bucky Bug', 'The Seven Dwarfs', 'Dumbo' and 'Bambi'.
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