Biography

Floyd Gottfredson was born on May 5, 1905 in Kaysville, Utah, USA. He was married to Mattie Mason. He died on July 22, 1986 in Montrose, California, USA.

Gottfredson was born into a large Mormon family in Kaysville, Utah. The three brothers and four sisters traced their roots to their great-grandfather who had immigrated to the United States from Denmark in the 1840s.

The drawing desk Gottfredson used occupies a corner in a special room at Disney's Publishing department in Burbank.

As a child, Floyd severely injured his arm in a hunting accident. Housebound during a long recovery, he became interested in cartooning and took several cartooning correspondence courses.

He is best known as a comic writer who worked on Disney's Mickey Mouse comics from 1930 to 1975.

He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2006.