From the January 1999 Peg-Board
We have recently learned of the death of animator and art director TOM McKIMSON on February 14, 1998, at the age of ninety. Beginning at Disney in the late 1920s as Norm Ferguson's assistant, he became an animator at the Romer Grey studio and then went to Harman- Ising, where he stayed until the studio merged with MGM. He became a layout artist at Schlesinger, working for the Bob Clampett unit where he came up with the original design for Tweety.
In 1947 he quit Warners to work full-time as art director for Western Publishing, where he supervised and created art for comic books, coloring books and Golden Books, many of which were translated from animated cartoons. After his retirement from Western in 1972 he created limited edition animation art cels for McKimson He was the eldest of three brothers, one of whom was the late Warners director Bob McKimson; he is survived by his other brother, former animator Charles McKimson.
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