Bye Bye Gumby (RIP Art Clokey)

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Art Clokey, the creator of the whimsical clay figure Gumby, died in his sleep Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif....He was 88.

Clokey and his wife, Ruth, invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art had finished film school at USC. After a successful debut on "The Howdy Doody Show," Gumby soon became the star of its own hit television show, "The Adventures of Gumby," the first to use clay animation on television.

Full story here.

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[Lisa Summers]

“But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”


It just seemed appropriate to find a 'clay' quote for this guy.