If you check the date of the article you will see that he really died
in May of 2002...
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Barb Engvall
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On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Susan Rardin wrote:
> Dear LM_NET,
> I thought this ought to be posted.
>
> Susan Rardin, MLS
> Cliffwood Library
> Cliffwood, NJ
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> Subject: NYTimes.com: Bill Peet, 87, Disney Artist And Children's
> Book Author
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:24:40 +0000
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>> THE ARTS/CULTURAL DESK
>> Bill Peet, 87, Disney Artist And Children's Book Author
>> By ERIC P. NASH
>> Bill Peet, an illustrator, screenwriter and childrens book author
>> almost as
>> well known for his tempestuous, 27-year relationship with Walt
>> Disney as for the
>> cartoon characters he created, died last Saturday at his home in
>> Studio City,
>> Calif. He was 87. Mr. Peet, who wrote and illustrated 35 childrens
>> books, all
>> but one for Houghton Mifflin, was an early voice of dissent at
>> Disneys so-called
>> Mouse Factory, which earned a reputation for a culture of
>> conformity. He was
>> hired in 1937, when he was 22, as an in-betweener, responsible for
>> the rote
>> chore of providing fill-in drawings to make animated characters
>> like Donald Duck
>> appear to move. Finally, in a fit of pique, he left his drawing
>> board one day,
>> screaming, No more ducks!
>>
>> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E1D61638F93BA25756C0A9649C8B6
>> 3&sec=&spon=
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