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Fred Harman (1902-1982) was an American cartoonist. He began his artistic career drawing strips for the Kansas City Star before working alongside future animation greats Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Friz Freleng, and his brother Hugh Harman at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. He eventually moved to working at Disney’s Laugh-O-Gram Studio. Laugh-O-Gram soon went bankrupt and rather than join Disney in Los Angeles like Iwerks, Freleng, and Hugh had or continue a career in animation, Fred Harman found his success in comic strips, creating the Red Ryder series alongside writer Stephen Slesinger and working on it for 25 years, drawing upon his own experience growing up on a Colorado ranch. He returned back to his hometown of Pagosa Springs in 1940 and founded the Red Ryder Ranch. He retired from Red Ryder in 1960 and spent much of his retirement years painting cowboy western scenes. He was one of the founders of the Cowboy Artists of America, and at the time of his death, he was only one of 75 white men in history to have been adopted by the Navajo Nation. For most modern audiences, Red Ryder is memorialized through the 1983 film A Christmas Story, in which the protagonist Ralphie desperately longs for a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas.

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