<b>Merrill De Maris</b> was born in New Jersey in 1898 and in addition to <i>Silly Symphonies</i>, wrote for the <i>Mickey Mouse </i>strip, and contributed gags for <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i> and other animated films. <p/><b>Bob Grant</b> was an animator at the Disney studios from 1935-1938 and drew Disney newspaper strips such as <i>Scamp</i> and <i>Silly Symphonies</i> until 1968. <p/><b>Al Taliaferro</b> was born in Montrose, Colorado in 1905 and moved with his family to Glendale, California in 1918. He was hired by Disney in 1931 and after inking Floyd Gottfredson's <i>Mickey Mouse</i> strip, went on to draw the <i>Silly Symphonies</i> Sunday page, where he first drew Donald Duck, the character with whom he would become forever associated. <p/><b>Hank Porter</b> was a staff artist at Disney from 1935-1950, who created the newspaper strip adaptations of <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i> and <i>Pinocchio</i>.