Edmond-François Calvo

Edmond-François Calvo (French pronunciation: [ɛdmɔ̃ fʁɑ̃swa kalvo]; 26 August 1892 - 11 October 1957) was a French comics artist. Born in 1892 in Elbeuf, France, he was in the army in the First World War, and started publishing cartoons in the 1920s. He had many different jobs, including working as a woodcarver and an innkeeper, until 1938, when he became a full-time artist. Most of his work had animals as the main characters, which together with his popularity and productivity gave him the nickname "The French Walt Disney"…Wikipedia