There's a cool page here where he's posted some caricatures Bill did of some of his Disney co-workers. If you click on the drawings, some of them link to really interesting casual pictures snapped of the artists at work. If you click on the caricature of Disney Story Artist Joe Rinaldi, it will take you to a page with another caricature of Joe, plus some candid photos and a brief passage about Bill Jr's memories of Joe.
Anyway, thought I'd pass this along - I'm sure a lot of people who are interested in Disneyana will enjoy seeing these candid photos. The Bill Peet site is full of great unpublished Peet work including a great page of unpublished Book ideas.
If there's anyone out there that has any information about the life and/or work of Joe Rinaldi I'd love to hear from you. Bill Peet has left us quite a legacy of his work and life but those of us at Disney know very little about Joe or his life. I own some pieces of Disney art that I think were done by Joe, I will get around to posting them someday.
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I agree we should know much more about Joe Rinaldi. There's hardly anything written about him, and that's a shame.
He was still around when I first arrived at Disney. I was just a kid, and afraid to even approach these old Disney story guys. I would love to write about Joe, but sadly, I know very little about him aside from his work in story.
Floyd - Yeah, he's a real enigma to everyone I asked about him. I was asking Burny about Joe the other day, he pretty much said the same thing.
My grandfather was Joe's brother. Is there anything in particular that you would like to know?
Hi Mark, I visited Bill Peet Jr. and I loved that website, I appreciate you share somebody else's websites so your blog followers can see other talented people
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