Carl Fallberg
| Carl Fallberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Carl Robert Fallberg September 11, 1915 Cleveland, Tennessee |
| Died | May 9, 1996 (aged 80) Glendale, California |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Writer, cartoonist |
| Years active | 1935 - 1990 |
| Employer | Disney Studios, Hanna Barbara |
| Home town | Chicago, Illinois |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Spouse(s) | Bertha "Becky" Fallberg (née Dorner) (b. 10 June 1923- d. 8 October 2007) |
| Children | Carla Fallberg |
| Parent(s) | Gunhild Fallberg (née Sjöstedt) and Carl Fallberg (Sr.) |
| Relatives | cousin: David Hallberg, ballet dancer (ABT, the Bolshoi) |
Carl Robert Fallberg (September 11, 1915 – May 9, 1996) was a writer/cartoonist for animated feature films and T.V. cartoons for Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera, and Warner Brothers. He also wrote comic books for Disney Comics, Dell Comics, Western Publishing, and Gold Key Comics.
Carl Robert Fallberg was born in Cleveland, Tennessee on 11 September 1915 to Carl Fallberg (Sr.), and Gunhild Fallberg (née Sjöstedt), who both taught music at the Centenary College Conservatory in Cleveland, Tennessee from 1910-1917. Carl was the middle child of three, with an older sister Lisa Lina "Dixie" and younger sister Elinor Faith. The family moved to Chicago, and in 1930 his mother died, leaving Carl and his two sisters motherless for several years.
Carl attended Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago, Illinois. In 1934, Carl sent a letter with samples of his gag ideas and artwork to Walt Disney asking for employment. On the third try, he was offered a job and started to work for Walt Disney Studios in 1935 (then located at 2719 Hyperion Avenue in Hollywood, California.)
Carl and his sister Elinor (1923-2014) lived in rooming house at 3021 Angus Street, just a few blocks from the Hyperion Studios. It was there he meet his future wife, Becky Dorner, the daughter of the family who owned the rooming house. During World War II, his sister Elinor and his future wife Becky worked at Disney Studios while Carl was serving in the U.S. Marines at Quantico, Virginia as part of the Marine Corps film unit.
Becky and Carl were married at First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles, California on July 14, 1945 and had one child, Carla Larissa Fallberg, born in 1955. Becky continued to work for Disney Studios, eventually becoming the Manager of the Ink and Paint Department while Carl went on to work as a writer/cartoonist freelancing for Disney, Hanna Barbera, and several other cartoon studios and comic book publishers.
Carl had a lifelong passion for the “narrow gauge" railroad lines connecting the mountain mining towns of Colorado. This love of narrow gauge railroads in early mining communities was expressed through his cartoon drawings published in his Fiddletown & Copperopolis comic strip which appeared in Railroad Magazine. During the early 1980s, Carl compiled all his Fiddletown and Copperopolis cartoons into a book. The resulting "Fiddletown and Copperopolis - The life and times of an uncommon carrier" was published in 1985.
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