Collection: Charles McKimson (1914-1999) Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Charles McKimson, born Charles Edson "Chuck" McKimson, Jr., was born December 20, 1914, in Denver, Colorado, was an American animator, best known for his work at Warner Bros. Studio on the Cartoon Series Looney Tunes during the Golden Age of Cartoons.  Charles McKimson was the younger brother of animators Robert and Thomas McKimson. His father, Charles Mckimson Sr., was a newspaperman, who later become the editor of the Scandia Journal in Scandia, Kansas. The McKimson family located to Los Angeles in the 1920's. Charles McKimson began his career in animation in 1937, when he joined Leon Schlesinger Productions as a member of Tex Avery's unit.

Charles McKimson left the studio during World War II to serve in the US Army Signal Corps, returning to the Studio in 1946. Upon his return he was assigned to his brother, Robert McKimson's, unit where he worked as a lead animator. Charles received co-story credit on one short, 1955's "All Fowled Up" (the other writer being Sid Marcus), starring Foghorn Leghorn, a character utilized exclusively by Robert. While at Warner Bros. McKimson also drew the syndicated Roy Rogers comic strip from 1949 to 1953, in collaboration with his other brother Thomas and artist Pete Alvarado. The strip was published under the pseudonym "Al McKimson."

Charles McKimson left Warner Bros. Animation in 1954, after Jack Warner briefly shut down the animation division. He subsequently joined Dell Publishing, where he served as Art Director for their comic and coloring books division. In 1961 McKimson worked as animation director on the short lived animated television series Calvin and the Colonel. He died in 1999 at the age of 84.