Carson Van Osten - RIP

[D.D.Degg]

It is being reported that Disney cartoonist Carson Van Osten has passed away.
http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2015/12/23/disney-legend-carson-van-osten-passes-away/

Carson Van Osten
September 24, 1946 - December 22, 2015
[the above birth date is from wikipedia,
ancestry.com has a Carson Gould Van Osten
born on September 24, 1945 and baptized
2 and a half months later in Riverton, N. J.]

musician (bass guitar - Nazz)
animator
comic books
Disney 1969/70-2000

comic strips:
from the above obit:
"Carson became a staff comic strip artist and story man
in 1974, working alongside legendary Disney comic artists
Floyd Gottfredson and Manuel "Gonzy" Gonzales."

Inducks.org lists Van Osten's comic strip credits as
Assistant inker for Floyd Gottfredson on the newspaper
version of Mickey Mouse (daily edition) 1974.
and
Art director of the comic strip department 1976-1988.
http://coa.inducks.org/creator.php?c=COs

"One of his best-known works is the Disney
Comic Strip Artist's Kit, a seven-page primer
on staging, perspective, and other design
fundamentals inherent in comic panel art.
It is still in use today, all around the world.
"I wrote and drew those sketches around 1975..."
http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2006/09/comic-strip-artists-kit-redux.html