Wilfred Haughton
(UK)
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Wilfred Haughton was a British artist, who drew the first 'Mickey Mouse' comics for Mickey Mouse Annual. The Annual appeared from 1930. Therefore, Haughton is one of the first European Disney artists, along with the Italian Federico Pedrocchi.
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Haughton drew short stories, featuring characters like Mickey, Minnie, Horace, Clarabelle, Dippy and Butch. When the Mickey Mouse Weekly begin in 1936, Haughton drew beautiful covers, strongly inspired by the early cartoons. He eventually did some comics as "mini-comics", with text balloons and gags.
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Other British artists that worked for the magazine were William A. Ward, who did 'Donald Duck' stories, and Basil Reynolds, who drew stories with 'Goofy'. Haughton also did four long continuing 'Goofy & Toby' stories in 1936, in which Goofy and Toby Tortoise were detectives.
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Haughton had to give up drawing the covers in 1939, because he refused to modernize his style. Prior to his Disney work, Haughton drew a humorous strip about two negro children, called 'Ebb and Flo', in The Daily Herald. He has also invented toys and he was a producer of puppet trickfilms.
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