All are very different celebrations of the childhood imagination, wrought into fantasy-world landscapes. That formula proved key to the success and influence of Gumby creator Art Clokey , who died Friday at 88 and helped, at least in a small way …

All are very different celebrations of the childhood imagination, wrought into fantasy-world landscapes.

LOS OSOS, Calif. (AP) — Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday. He was 88

Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, has died. He was 88.

LOS OSOS, Calif. (AP) — Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop-culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, has died

LOS OSOS, Calif. (AP) – Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday.

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 several …

Los Osos, Calif. — Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday. He was 88.

Art Clokey, 88, an animator whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop-culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals, and satires, died Friday in his sleep at his home in Los Osos on California’s Central Coast.

LOS OSOS — Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday. He was 88.