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LONG BEFORE HE EMERGED AS A FULL-TIME FINE ARTIST
PHILIP GLADSTONE BRIEFLY WORKED AS A CARTOONIST, FULFILLING A CHILDHOOD DREAM
Beginning in his senior year of High School and continuing for a few years, he scripted comic books for the Walt Disney Company that were translated into many languages and published worldwide
Above: Donald Duck in Saved by a Skateboard, written by Philip Gladstone at age 17
Shown here as published in Brazil
©Disney
Fearing that he might regret having never attempted to have a newspaper comics feature syndicated, the comic strip "Cello Lake" was developed during a brief period of unemployment in 2002.
The samples were submitted to all major syndicates, and while some interest in developing the feature was shown by editors, in the end it wasn't meant to be—fine art had captured his mature imagination, and his career as a painter would begin two years later
Read the Cello Lake submission in its entirety below:
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