Art Clokey (Gumby) RIP

[refin]

Gotta admit,he was pretty cool---found a niche'.


LOS OSOS, Calif. - Gumby animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation became a pop culture phenomenon through countless satires, toys and revivals, has died at age 89.

Caretaker Chrisanne Wollett Clokey says Clokey died Friday in Los Osos on California's Central Coast.

Clokey first molded Gumby for a surreal student project at the University of Southern California called "Gumbasia." That led to his making shorts for the "Howdy Doody Show" and several series through the years.

He said he based Gumby's swooping head on the hairdo of his father, who died when Clokey was nine.

Clokey also created the moralizing and often satirized claymation duo "Davey and Goliath."

[Don]

I used to love Davey and Goliath!

[JM3]

cool stuff

[NeoFauve]

Dammit.

[clayville]

Funny... when I saw this news yesterday I thought of you Refin. That ol' Pokey avatar turns up on my iPod every once in a while!

[Wilko]

Ya know Sneaky Pete (Steel player with Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers--and many more) was animator on the Gumby shows. He died two years ago.

[Cygnus X1]

I was a Gumby addict, and so were my own sons...not too many years ago.
Found a great, huge book at the public library about the history of animation, my oldest son (now 15) read it cover to cover as I did.
It had a large chapter on claymation as well.
He now is deeply entrenched in PC game design.

I'm sure-I'd like to think anyway, that Gumby had a bit to do with his talent.
RIP Art.

[Gravity Jim]

From clay do we rise, and to clay do we return.

Thanks for the pre-school surrealism, Art. You and Gumby helped make me weird, and I'm grateful.

[refin]

Funny... when I saw this news yesterday I thought of you Refin. That ol' Pokey avatar turns up on my iPod every once in a while!

Totally weird,bizarre,and trippy to this day...........I love it.

[Cogs]

I brought a Gumby DVD home from the library to show my kids. They all thought it looked goofy & they laughed until we sat down to watch it, & then they were hooked!
God rest Art Clokey.

[Kap'n]

Ya know Sneaky Pete (Steel player with Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers--and many more) was animator on the Gumby shows. He died two years ago.

Been getting into Gram recently.

Read a few things about Art in the obits.

Apparently he really liked Eddie Murphy's portrayal of Gumby, but was glad it was on late nite, so the kids didn't see it.

Art was also really into searching for spiritual enlightenment. Enough so that he once took LSD under a doctor's medical supervision. I mentioned this to a friend as something Davey might have done. She said, "Of course! You don't think Golliath really talked, do you?"

RIP Art.