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ABOVE: This cartoon, drawn by Ed Aardal, ran in .the July 29, 1954, edition
of
the Shelton-Mason County Journal. BELOW: A 1928 drawing by Aardal for
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Courtesy of County Historical Museum
Local artist had hand in
well-known Disney movies
artist for Walt Disney Produc-
tions, came home to spend his
vacation with his mother in Potlatch,
the Shelton-Mason Journal
carried an article about his Visit. The
illustration that accompanied the
story, drawn by the artist “with a few
of his talented hand,” shows
Aardal sitting in a rowboat, holding
on for dear life while Disney cartoon
character Goofy (which he spelled
Goofie, probably
to avoid copyright
infringement) en-
thusiastically rocks
the boat while reel-
ing in a fish.‘
Ed Aardal was
born in Eldon on
Feb. 6, 1910, in a'
tent the family had
moved into after
a flood destroyed
their home. Accord-
. ing to his mother,
“He drew all the time, that boy.”
Aardal’s schooling began at Potlatch
and ended after eighth grade at the
In July 1954, when Ed Aardal, an
By JAN
PARKER
Lower Skokomish School. With his
father in ill health, he went to work
in a sawmill to support the family. At
about age 19, he moved to Seattle to
live with an uncle. There, he attended
Garfield High School and also worked
on the art staff of the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer. When the Great Depres-
sion hit, Aardal lost his job at the P-I
and returned to Shelton, Where he
found work at the Rayonier Pulp Mill,
painting pictures, signs, cartoons,
machines, “whatever they wanted us
to paint.”
In July 1935, Aardal married Jo-
hanna Agness Tack, from Matlock,
and they left for California, where “a
man who produced animated cartoon
movies” had offered Aardal a job.
Walt Disney put him to work as an
animator. In those days there were 16
frames, or drawings, per foot of film,
and the length of a short cartoon was
usually feet. Animators did the
art work, sketching the characters in
the cartoon. Every action a character
made required a separate drawing.
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In the 1954 Journal article, Aardal
said, “Just like acting by live perform-
ers, timing is the important thing.
Draw a slightly wrong movement for
the wrong time and the character
would come out falling down when he
should be running.” A cartoon short
took about a year and half from its
beginning to first being shown in the-
aters. In addition to cartoons, Aardal
worked on many well-known Disney
movies, including “Snow White”, “Pin-
occhio”, “Bambi”, “Cinderella”, “Alice
in Wonderland”, and “Peter Pan.” He
was the artist who animated Tramp
in “Lady and the Tramp”, and he
worked on most of the Goofy cartoons.
Between 1957 and his retirement
in 1978, Aardal worked for Filma-
tion and Hanna-Barbera studios, and
taught animation.
The Journal article concluded
that while Aardal was “still deeply
in love with his work . . . . he has
the Mason County man’s still deeper
affection for his home country, for
Hood Canal. That’s why he’s enjoy-
ing life to the utmost right now, fish-
ing and relaxing, patching up around
his mother’s home.” The truth of
that declaration may be found in the
fact that both Ed Aardal, who died
in 1988, and his wife Joanna, who
passed in-2012, are buried at Shel—
ton Memorial Park.
I Jan Parker is a researcher for the
Mason County Historical Museum.
She can be reached at parkerj@hctc.
com. Membership in the Mason County
Historical Society is $25 per year.
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