Jack Bradbury worked at the Disney studio from the mid-1930's to the early 40's, during which time he was an animator on Snow White, Fantasia, Bambi, Pinocchio, and many short films,including Ferdinand the Bull. He left Disney after the 1941 strike and went on to do animation at Warner Brothers and other studios. During the last half of the 1940's, he started drawing comic books for publications such as Coo Coo, Giggle, Ha Ha, Happy, Goofy, and others, covering a huge menagerie of 'funny animal' characters. Many samples of his work from this period are included here. The Spunky and Stanley comics were (to me, at least) particular highlights of his artistic work. (Check out the Spunky Junior Cowboy comics,  and also the earlier Stanley and Homer stories.)  Jack went on, in the 1950's, to work for Western Publishing, drawing comic books and coloring books that primarily involved the Disney characters. During this time (the last three decades of his artistic work life) he drew stories that included practically the entire stable of Disney characters -- MIckey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Chip 'n' Dale, Gyro Gearloose, and on and on. Check out INDUCKS for a compilation of his very extensive Disney comic book credits (or here's a simple text version, sorted by Disney character) Failing eyesight finally put an end to his cartooning, but he continued his creative energies in writing, at first doing some comic book scripts, and then working on some personal writing projects up until his death in 2004.

I'm one of Jack's sons, and after he died I gathered together the things he left, including many boxes of comic book pages. These make up the bulk of the current web site. I'll be updating this site and adding some other material that may be of interest to comics fans. I know that there are folks out there who very much appreciated Jack's style. I know he had some avid fans in Italy and Germany, as well as in the US. And he had admirers in the younger cartoonist community. Los Angeles-based Dave Bennett, in particular, has been a special long-time fan and was a close friend of Jack's. They even did some collaborative projects together in Jack's later years. Jim Scancarelli paid tribute to the Spunky and Stanley characters in his Gasoline Alley strip.  I also sometimes see notes on the web from comics fans acknowledging Jack's special style. He combined painstaking artistry with a lively, fun-loving enthusiasm. Just check out how much personality he put into the talking horse, Stanley, for example.

The comic pages included here are meant as a gift to those on the web who might already be fans, and also as an introduction to those for whom these comics might be entirely new. Enjoy!