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Walt Disney, c. 1955.
As a young student, Walt Disney pursued his interest in cartooning through several avenues. While living in Kansas City, he studied cartooning through a correspondence school and attended classes at the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design. Later, after moving to Chicago in 1917, he continued to study cartooning on the side while attending McKinley High School.1