Artist - Willie Ito, animation artist

Willie Ito, born 1934, has had a decades-long art career in which he's worked for Disney, Warner Brothers, and Hanna-Barbera. His 2007 children's book, "Hello Maggie," draws upon his experiences as a child in an internment camp in America during WW2. Mr. Ito's pencil sketches of cartoon characters are currently being sold on eBay (as of 7.9.2025) by "pop-king." His description of his work with one of the animation studios: "I was involved with many of the Hanna-Barbera shows as character designer, layout man, concept artist and designer with supervisory capacity."