Dell Conell interview
When Western Publishing editor Del Connell passed away in 2011, Disney historian Brian Sibley wrote the following obituary for The Guardian:
One night in the 1960s, at the height of the US-Soviet space race, a middle-aged comic-book writer, Del Connell, stood in his backyard in California watching one of the regular rocket tests by NASA’s Saturn engine suppliers, Rocketdyne, and had a thought. How would it be if a 20th-century family were, in the manner of the Swiss Family Robinson, cast away in space? The first issue of his Space Family Robinson was published in December 1962. Three years later, the idea was reborn (with the Robinsons, but without attribution to Connell) as Irwin Allen’s successful television show Lost in Space, which ran for three seasons and in its turn inspired a 1998 feature film.
It is characteristic of the work of Connell, who has died aged 93, that, despite having written thousands of the comic strips and books that were the regular reading matter for a generation of youngsters in America and around the world, his name is virtually unknown.
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Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - The Mique Nelson letters (Mique Nelson)
- 2 - Katherine Kerwin interview (Dave Smith)
- 3 - Gerry Geronimi interview (Michael Barrier, Milton Gray)
- 4 - Gerry Geronimi interview (Ross Care)
- 5 - Ward Kimball interview (Ross Care)
- 6 - Ward Kimball interview (John Culhane)
- 7 - Dick Huemer interview (John Culhane)
- 8 - Ken O'Connor interview (Ron Merk)
- 9 - Chaperone for Donald Duck (Janet Martin)
- 10 - Herb Ryman interview (Kathy Greene, Richard Greene)
- 11 - Five Years with Walt (Don Douglass)
- 12 - Ken Peterson interview (Bob Thomas)
- 12 - Ken Peterson interview (Bob Thomas)
- 13 - Kay Wright interview (Alberto Becattini)
- 14 - Dell Conell interview
- 15 - Elma Milotte interview (MICA Productions)
- 16 - Bob Gurr interview (Doobie Moseley)
- 17 - Bob Gurr interview (Jim Korkis)
- 18 - Bob Gurr interview (Didier Ghez)
- 19 - Barbara Palmer interview (Michael Broggie)
- 20 - Hani El-Masri interview (Julie Svendsen)
