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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. ~01;er oo'm smarts l QUIT WORK A500T rwser YEARS A60. linger THAT 31m” . 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. HOME OWNERSHIP vs. RENTING Privacy, greater stability. pets allowed! Homeownership makes your home your ownl You no longer have the stress, inconvenience, and cost of moving from rental to rental. 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