Career
His comic book work was mostly on Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories. He was the writer who, along with artist First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hubbard, created Fethry Duck and Hard Haid Moe. Kinney is the younger brother of fellow Disney animator Jack Kinney.
Earlier, as an animation writer, Kinney was part of the story crew on various Disney, Walter Lantz Productions, Universal Postal Union and Jack Kinney Productions/King Features Syndicate theatrical and television cartoons.
The Lantz cartoon Niagara Fools, featuring Woody Woodpecker, represented perhaps Kinney"s most fondly-remembered original storyline. Later, Kinney would remake the story for comics with Fethry Duck in, essentially, the Woody role.