Peter J. Alvarado Jr. (February 22, 1920 – December 27, 2003) was an American animation and comic book artist. Alvarado's animation career spanned almost 60 years. He was also a prolific contributor to Western Publishing's line of comic books.
Pete Alvarado
Pam Martin and Pete Alvarado - Photo courtesy of Pam and Bob Martin.
Born
Peter J. Alvarado Jr. (1920-02-22)February 22, 1920 Raton, New Mexico, United States
Alvarado was the recipient of the 2001 Winsor McCay Award, for his lifetime of achievement in animation, as well as the Animation Guild's 1987 Golden Award.
Comic books
Concurrently with his animation work, Alvarado also worked as a prolific comic book illustrator. As noted above, he worked from 1939 to 1941 providing artwork for Funnies Inc. Alvarado returned to the comic book world in 1947, in collaboration with Charles McKimson (brother of animator Robert McKimson). McKimson was the art director at Western Publishing Company, and the two (in collaboration with Charles' brother Thomas) drew the Roy Rogers strip under the pen name "Al McKimson."[3] Alvarado went on to draw the Gene Autry newspaper strip and comic book, the Mr. Magoo newspaper strip for its entire run, a long period of the Little Lulu newspaper strip, some work on the Flintstones and Yogi Bear newspaper strip, and fill-in work for almost all the Disney newspaper strips, including an extended period as the main artist on the Donald Duck strip.[3]
Extensive list of Alvarado credits at Who's Who Bio
For Pete's Sake!
May 04, 2023
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Peter J Alvarado Jr February 22 1920 December 27 2003 was an American animation and comic book artist Alvarado s animation career spanned almost 60 years He was also a prolific contributor to Western Publishing s line of comic books Pete AlvaradoPam Martin and Pete Alvarado Photo courtesy of Pam and Bob Martin BornPeter J Alvarado Jr 1920 02 22 February 22 1920Raton New Mexico United StatesDiedDecember 27 2003 2003 12 27 aged 83 La Crescenta California U S NationalityAmericanArea s Penciller animator illustratorPseudonym s Peter Jay Bart DoeNotable worksTwo time Academy Award winner for best short subjectAwardsThe Animation Guild I A T S E Local 839 Golden Award for Service to the Craft Disney Hispanic Artist Award Warner Bros 24 Carrot Gold Award ASIFA Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aninmation Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Animation 1 2 Comic books 2 Notes 3 Further reading 4 External linksBiography EditAnimation Edit Alvarado was born in Raton New Mexico and grew up in Glendale California He attended the Chouinard Art Institute in the 1930 after graduation he was hired as an assistant animator by the Walt Disney Studio He provided uncredited work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 1 Around 1939 Alvarado left Disney to find work in New York City where he provided his earliest comic book art for Funnies Inc which supplied artwork for Fawcett Publications and Timely Comics now Marvel Comics 2 Alvarado returned to California and Disney Studio in 1941 He left Disney in 1946 to work for Warner Bros Animation Alvarado became the Background painter for Chuck Jones and his first screen credit was on the 1947 Pepe Le Pew short Scent imental Over You He held this position until 1951 working on several cartoons such as the first Wile E Coyote and Road Runner cartoon Fast and Furry ous and Chuck Jones Oscar winning short For Scent imental Reasons His last work with Jones was Scentimental Romeo in 1951 another cartoon featuring Pepe Le Pew 3 Alvarado went on to Replace Cornett Wood as chief layout artist for Robert McKimson s unit He left Warner Bros entirely and was replaced by Bob Givens in 1953 Alvarado later joined DePatie Freleng Enterprises after Warner Bros closed their cartoon division He worked on several Pink Panther shorts as well as the short lived animated series Super President Around 1971 Alvarado joined Hanna Barbera as a layout artist he worked on such series as The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show 1971 Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch 1974 and many others Alvarado also provided animation and layout work for Film Roman Garfield and Friends Alvarado was the recipient of the 2001 Winsor McCay Award for his lifetime of achievement in animation as well as the Animation Guild s 1987 Golden Award Comic books Edit Concurrently with his animation work Alvarado also worked as a prolific comic book illustrator As noted above he worked from 1939 to 1941 providing artwork for Funnies Inc Alvarado returned to the comic book world in 1947 in collaboration with Charles McKimson brother of animator Robert McKimson McKimson was the art director at Western Publishing Company and the two in collaboration with Charles brother Thomas drew the Roy Rogers strip under the pen name Al McKimson 3 Alvarado went on to draw the Gene Autry newspaper strip and comic book the Mr Magoo newspaper strip for its entire run a long period of the Little Lulu newspaper strip some work on the Flintstones and Yogi Bear newspaper strip and fill in work for almost all the Disney newspaper strips including an extended period as the main artist on the Donald Duck strip 3 The bulk of Alvarado s work at Western was for their anthropomorphic animal comic books Alvarado provided artwork for almost every Disney Chip n Dale Scamp Warner Bros Tweety amp Sylvester Road Runner Hanna Barbera Yogi Bear and Walter Lantz Andy Panda licensed title He also illustrated comic book adaptations of the animated films The Rescuers Robin Hood and Gay Purr ee 1 Alvarado retired from animation in 1999 He died on December 27 2003 in La Crescenta California Notes Edit a b 1 Evanier Mark Pete Alvarado 1920 2004 news from ME website Last accessed 03 13 2007 2 Pete Alvarado bio ASIFA Hollywood biopedia Last accessed 3 13 2007 a b c 3 Pete Alvarado Comic Book DB website Last accessed 03 13 2007 Further reading EditFloyd Norman Animation Profile Pete Alvarado Animato no 20 Summer 1990 pp 10 11 External links EditPete Alvarado at the Comic Book DB archived from the original Pete Alvarado at IMDb Pete Alvarado at Inducks Pete Alvarado biography on Lambiek Extensive list of Alvarado credits at Who s Who Bio For Pete s Sake Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pete Alvarado amp oldid 1152688141, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
