Pete Alvarado
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ASIFA Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aninmation |
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.
Biography
Animation
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
Alvarado later joined
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
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
The bulk of Alvarado's work at Western was for their
Alvarado retired from animation in 1999. He died on December 27, 2003, in La Crescenta, California.
Notes
Further reading
- Floyd Norman. "Animation Profile: Pete Alvarado". Animato no.20 (Summer 1990), pp. 10–11.
External links
- Pete 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!