Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby, is dead. We didn't know this: Art Clokey created Gumby as a way of dealing with personal tragedy. When Clokey was nine, his father was killed in a car accident. He lived with his mother for a while,
Gumby grew out of a student project Clokey produced at the University of Southern California in the early 1950s called "Gumbasia." That led to his making shorts featuring Gumby and his horse friend Pokey for the "Howdy Doody Show" and 
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