Ross Wetzel

Not sure if my original memory of my time with the Ross Wetzel studio is still here, but I do want to share a time in 1958-59 with the family...The studio gave me my first job as an apprentic, washing our artist paint "jars" of water before they got to the studio, filing in for "in-betweeners" and painting cells all those
apprecintic things....then, I was given the opportunity of the new
"Cellomatic" part of the studio, run by Owen Zapel(?)...it was the animated still slides by the...

i was given a piece called "amarillo y rojo en mexico" in 1976. I was in corpus christi at that time. Was it done by your grandfather?

My condolences to a great professional's family. Ross gave me my first job as an apprentice in 1958 after art school. My jobs where cleaning out water jars for the artist, except Hicks and Faulkner, they where cartoonist, inking cells, delivering to Leo Burnett Kellogg art and finally going big time with a new product, Cellomatic, a dual rear projection slide "machine" that he saw great benefit in still animation using two images that attracted corporate conventions..we helped introduce...

Thanks to Ross, my Dad (Don Pegler) met life long friends (Rocky Yamanaka, Jim Hicks, and others) and learned how to animate anything and enjoy all things creative. Our family wishes Ross's family & friends peace & fond memories of the man my Dad spoke so fondly of over the years.

My condolences to the Wetzel family for your loss. Ross gave me my first job in 1949 after Art school. I was a flunkie working at the "Cartoonist" on Michigan Ave., next to the Wrigley building. When television started in the early 50's. Ad agencies asked him to make T.V. commercials - which started us in making 10 second spots. He taught me animation which I continued (in Chicago) till I retired in 1996. He started me on my career as an animator.
He was my mentor And good...

Sorry for your loss