Background
His father was a newspaperman who later become the editor of the Scandia Journal in Scandia, Kansas. McKimson was born in Denver, Colorado.
His father was a newspaperman who later become the editor of the Scandia Journal in Scandia, Kansas. McKimson was born in Denver, Colorado.
He was the younger brother of animators Robert and Thomas McKimson. The family located to Los Angeles with his family in the 1920s. McKimson left the studio during World World War II to serve in the United States Army Signal Corps, returning in 1946.
Charles received co-story cr on one short, 1955"s All Fowled Up (the other writer being Sid Marcus), starring Foghorn Leghorn — a character utilized exclusively by Robert.
The strip was published under the pseudonym "First Rate (at Lloyd's) McKimson."
McKimson left Warner Brothers Animation in 1954, after Jack L. Warner briefly shut down the animation division.
He subsequently joined Dell Publishing, where he served as Art Director for their comic and coloring books division. In 1961 McKimson worked as animation director on the short-lived animated television series Calvin and the Colonel.
McKimson died in 1999 at the age of 84.
He began his career in animation in 1937, when he joined Leon Schlesinger Productions as a member of Tex Avery"s unit