Larry Latham (animator)

Larry Latham (April 15, 1953 – November 2, 2014)[1] was an American animator, artist, producer and director. He was perhaps best known as a producer and director on Disney's animated series TaleSpin, the pilot episode of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.[2]

Latham worked on several other Disney productions as a storyboard artist or designer, including Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. He was also a producer, director, co-creator and storyboard artist on Disney's Bonkers.

Latham also directed storyboards on numerous Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including Super Friends, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, and The Smurfs. For Marvel Productions, he was storyboard director on My Little Pony 'n Friends and Spider-Man.

In 1996, Latham received a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award for his work as a storyboard artist on The Tick.[2]

More recently, Latham worked on several direct-to-video features for Universal Cartoon Studios. Among these were An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island and An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster, both of which he produced and directed.

In 2008, Latham began writing, drawing and publishing a webcomic called Lovecraft is Missing,[3] a project inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft and originally conceived by Latham as an animated series.[4] He released the first pages on October 1, 2008, and kept the comic going until his death from cancer on November 2, 2014.[5][6]