He was just a little green ball of clay, but by the time “Gumby” reached pop culture critical mass he had launched the careers of a legendary rock guitarist, a generation of killer animators ...

It’s not easy staying in the pop-cult limelight when you turn 50, but Gumby is evergreen. The flexible, falsettoed stop-motion star dominated children’s TV with “The Gumby Show” (1957-67) and “Gumby ...

Late last Friday, Rocks Off learned that Gumby and Davey and Goliath creator Art Clokey had passed away in his sleep at age 88. The pioneering stop-motion animator and his clay work were fixtures in ...

"Art" Clokey, who lived in Los Osos, California, passed away in his sleep. He is best known for popularizing stop-motion claymation with his children's series Gumby. At age 9, Clokey was sent to an ...

Perhaps animators just don’t get the respect they deserve. Even after a half-century of cinematic auteur theory, we seldom talk about “the great animation directors.” For every Walt Disney or Chuck ...