Paul Wenzel
Paul Edward Wenzel (February 14, 1935 – May 27, 2022) was an American artist, best known for his career with The Walt Disney Company, creating illustrations for movie posters and retail merchandise.Wenzel worked on over 100 movie posters during his tenure as a designer/illustrator for the Motion Picture Advertising Department, including the Academy Award winning Mary Poppins; re-releases of Pinocchio and Song of the South; The Parent Trap; Herbie Goes Bananas; Gus; The Monkey's Uncle; The Misadventures of Merlin Jones; The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit; Moon Pilot; Summer Magic; Pete's Dragon; Dragonslayer; The Black Cauldron; and Fox and the Hound.[8] The stamp represents Walt Disney with a line of It's A Small World styled children coming out of a silhouette of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle on the edge of a sphere.[8][9] Throughout the 1960s Wenzel was also an illustrator for science-fiction magazines creating covers and interior art for titles such as Space Travel; Galaxy Science Fiction; Worlds of Tomorrow; Fantastic Stories of Imagination; and if.[10] In 2000, Wenzel retired from Disney to reside in Prescott, Arizona and pursue his fine art paintings of animals and American Indians.
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