Kim Soo-jung () is a South Korean
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
and animator best known as the creator of
Dooly the Little Dinosaur
''Dooly the Little Dinosaur'' ( ko, 아기공룡 둘리) is a cartoon serialized from 1983 to 1993 by South Korean cartoonist Kim Soo-jung with a little dinosaur as the subject, and it refers to animations and other media mix works based on the ...
. His debut occurred in 1975 after he won the Hanguk Ilbo daily comics contest. In April 1983, Dooly the Dinosaur was first published in Bomulseom.
In 1995, Kim Soo-jung established a company named 'Dooly World' and went into the character design industry. On April 22, 2013, Google Korea's doodle featured Dooly, Kildong his enemy and his friends Douner, Ddochi and Heedong. This was the 30th anniversary of the creation of Dooly. Dobong-gu opened a Dooly Museum in July 2015.
References
South Korean animators
South Korean animated film directors
Living people
People from Jinju
1950 births
Gyeongsang National University alumni
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