{"id":38887,"date":"2018-01-17T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=38887"},"modified":"2018-01-16T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:47:11","slug":"moonlighting-animation-artists-in-comics-ray-patin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/moonlighting-animation-artists-in-comics-ray-patin\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonlighting Animation Artists in Comics: RAY PATIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

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This week\u2019s artist is the animator-turned successful producer of animated commercials, Ray Patin!<\/p>\n

Ray Patin was born in 1906 in Beaux Bridge, Louisiana to his mother Therese and his father Maurice. Patin\u2019s father was an experienced newspaper publisher and proprietor who ran several papers including The Lafayette Gazette and Gueydan News<\/em>. Due to Patin\u2019s uncle Oscar\u2019s wife suffering from tuberculosis, the two moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico for its climate. By 1916, they convinced Patin and his parents to move with them. After Oscar\u2019s wife passed away, he moved to California and persuaded Patin\u2019s family to relocate once again by 1919. In the mid-1920s, Patin seemed to follow his father\u2019s newspaper background, as he drew several illustrations in The Junior Times<\/em> supplement for The Los Angeles Sunday Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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Starting in the early 1930s, he worked in animation for Charles Mintz, Ub Iwerks and Harman-Ising. While he worked as an in-betweener and assistant animator in these studios, Patin conducted his own animation course, teaching artists the principles of animation. Supposedly, he continued as an instructor up to the end of the 1930s, when he presented Ub Iwerks as a guest speaker, after Iwerks\u2019 independent ventures as a producer ended. (Hank Ketcham, creator of the American Dennis the Menace<\/em> comic strip, conducted similar classes<\/a> as a young in-betweener at Walter Lantz.)<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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In 1937, Patin joined the Disney studio as an animator; among the titles he animated for Disney was the 1939 Donald Duck cartoon, The Autograph Hound<\/em><\/a>, where he is credited on a few scenes of Donald with Shirley Temple. In 1941, Patin was among the artists that joined the picket line during the studio\u2019s strike, and above all, documented the events with his home movie camera. After he was laid off from Disney, he moved to Warner Brothers. He was never credited for his animation there; an artist whose one scene is credited as \u201cRay\u201d in the animation draft for Bob McKimson\u2019s Daffy Doodles<\/em><\/a> might be him. Patin volunteered to participate in animated government films made after hours while he held his regular job at Warners. He worked on Point Rationing of Foods<\/em><\/a> (1943) and Hell-Bent for Election<\/em><\/a> (1944), the latter produced by the newly formed UPA.<\/p>\n

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Ray Patin caricatured by T. Hee<\/p><\/div>\n

After he left Warners in November 1944, Patin freelanced in comic book work at James Davis\u2019 shop and served as an animator at the Carey-Weston studio. During this time, in 1945, Patin served as the president of the Screen Cartoonists\u2019 Guild #852, and became the vice president the following year. He returned to Disney for a brief stint in 1946 as an animator and story artist, before he formed his own production company around November 1947. Ray Patin Productions, specialized in commercials and industrial films. Around 1950, he also formed a studio with UPA artist Ted Parmelee, but it is unclear how long it lasted.<\/p>\n

Established in Burbank, Ray Patin Productions became one of the successful television commercial houses in the 1950s. Around November 1952, his business became a division of Kling Film Productions, an industrial film company which produced promotional films, educational films, and intermission snipes for theatrical use. His clients in the 1950s included, but wasn\u2019t limited to, Bardahl Top Oil, 7-Up, Jello, Kellogg\u2019s<\/em> and Rainier Beer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In August 1955, Patin served as an interim president of Commercial Film Producers Association, which negotiated with the Screen Cartoonists Guild, focusing on \u201cother group representation and location-training of talent.\u201d As a result, a large majority of the other major animated commercial houses (including Cascade, Paul Fennell, Playhouse Pictures, Shamus Culhane Productions, Storyboard Inc., among others) joined the organization.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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By the early 1960s, Ray Patin Productions moved from Sunset Blvd. to Cahuenga Blvd., and continued to produce animated commercials. Though it\u2019s not known for certain, it could be assumed he closed up shop during that decade and ventured on his own with the company at his home in Burbank as a lucrative commercial producer. He passed away in 1976 in Los Angeles at the age of 69.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a sample of Patin\u2019s comic book work, all from James Davis\u2019 shop in the 1940s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2022 \u201cFin an\u2019 Gill\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014America\u2019s Funniest Comics #2<\/em> (undated, 1944)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSi Klops\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014America\u2019s Funniest Comics #2<\/em> (undated, 1944)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cFearless Farmsworth Tries a Little Monkey Business\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014Barnyard Comics #6<\/em> (September 1945)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWiley Foxxe\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014Goofy Comics #12<\/em> (February 1946)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWiley Foxxe and Willie Wurtle\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014Goofy Comics #13<\/em> (April 1946)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPainter Pig\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014Happy Comics #15<\/em> (September 1946)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWillie Wurtle\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014Barnyard Comics #13<\/em> (August 1947)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe Whiz Horse\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014Merry Go-Round Comics #2<\/em> (April-June 1948)<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cFearless Farnsworth\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u2014Coo Coo Comics #42<\/em> (November 1948)<\/p>\n

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(Thanks to Jerry Beck, Michael Barrier and Yowp for their help.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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