He was the proprietor of the General Merchandise store in the 1945 Droopy cartoon Wild and Wolfy. But just who was Claude Smith in real life?
Claude Smith was already a veteran of the animation industry when Wild and Wolfy was released in 1945. He began working at the Walt Disney Studios as early as 1933. He was a casualty of the fallout from the Disney Studio strike in 1941, but quickly landed at MGM where he did character layouts for Tex Avery for a number of years and assisted Avery specifically on Wild and Wolfy. Smith ultimately became well known as a cartoonist, publishing predominantly in Playboy and New Yorker magazines well into the 1970s.
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| A Claude Smith cartoon from New Yorker, published May 15, 1948. |
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