with new writers and artists over the following decades: Greg Crosby (writer, 1974-1979), Frank Smith (artist, 1976-1986), Bob Foster (writer, 1980-1989), Jim Franzen (artist, 1986), Daan Jippes (artist, 1986-1987), Ulrich Schröder (artist, 1986), Jorgen Klubien (artist, 1986), Tony Strobl (artist, 1986-1987), Bill Langley (artist, 1987), Pete Alvarado (artist, 1987-1989), Larry Mayer (artist, 1987-1989), and finally Larry Knighton (artist, 1990-1995). In 1995, King Features decided to end the production of new episodes of the comic strip, and to start publishing reprints of older episodes. Reprints While many of Taliaferro's strips were reprinted in Disney comic books, in only a few instances did he do original artwork for comic books. Among these was the Cheerios Premium Giveaway Donald Duck: Counter Spy (1947) and the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #107 (August 1949) plus two Bucky Bug stories in WDC&S #39 (Dec. 1943) and #60 (Sept. 1945) and a one-page Donald and Goofy gag based on No Sail in the latter . Two children's books with Disney characters he illustrated are Donald and His Cat Troubles (1948) and Donald Duck and the Hidden Gold (1951). In 2015, IDW Publishing began three series of hardcover reprints of Taliaferro's Disney comics under their imprint The Library of American Comics: Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Daily Newspaper Comics Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Sunday Newspaper Comics Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics Legacy Animation historian Jim Korkis noted that Taliaferro designed the mascot Litternaut in 1967 who adorned the public trash receptacles in Glendale into the 1970s and to this day is the official mascot of the Committee for a Clean & Beautiful Glendale. Taliaferro was posthumously honored with a Disney Legends award in 2003. References External links Al Taliaferro at the Lambiek Comiclopedia Litter-Not drawing for city of Glendale CA clean and beautiful campaign Disney Legends profile November 8th, 1943 Donald Duck comic strip as reprinted in issue 48 of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (September 1944) Just Ducky: Al Taliaferro and Donald Duck IDW – Library of American comics – Donald Duck Newspaper and Sunday strip collections IDW – Library of American comics – Silly Symphonies 1905 births 1969 deaths 20th-century American artists American cartoonists American people of Italian descent Animators from Colorado Artists from Colorado Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Disney comics artists Disney comics writers People from Glendale, California People from Montrose, Colorado Taliaferro family of