About William Wray (artist)
William York Wray, known professionally in animation as Bill Wray, is an American cartoonist, animator and landscape painter. He is best known for his contributions to Mad and The Ren & Stimpy Show, as well as his current focus on regional landscape painting. His long-run satirical Monroe series appeared in more than 100 issues of Mad, and he has also co-created Dark Horse Comics Hellboy Junior with Mike Mignola based on the Hellboy character. I hope my paintings of these old structures has become less an invocation of nostalgia than an important race to record what is fast disappearing. California's urban pockets of age are disappearing at a record pace, so I have to paint as fast as I can.
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