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| birth_name  = William Roger Van Horn
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1939|2|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Oakland]], [[California]], U.S.
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| area = Artist, writer
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'''William Van Horn''' (born February 15, 1939) is an American [[Disney comics]] artist and writer, and has been since 1988. He draws mostly [[Donald Duck]] and [[Uncle Scrooge]] stories, and he has also written and/or illustrated stories based on the [[animated series]] ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]''. Some of these stories featured [[Launchpad McQuack]] as the main character. William's son [[Noel Van Horn]] is also a Disney comics artist, focusing on [[Mickey Mouse]] stories.

==Work==
Prior to his association with Disney, Van Horn drew and wrote the black-and-white comic book ''[[Nervous Rex]]'' for [[Blackthorne Publishing]].  Focusing on the misadventures of a small, non-violent tyrannosaurus, the series ran for ten issues, from 1985 to 1987.<ref>[http://toonopedia.com/nervous.htm ''Nervous Rex''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://www.webcitation.org/6aq1pF9Qm?url=http://toonopedia.com/nervous.htm Archived] from the original on August 17, 2015.</ref> Afterward, also for Blackthorne, he drew and wrote a short-lived superhero parody comic called "Possibleman," which ran for two issues.

In the first years of his career as a Disney Comics artist William often worked with [[John Lustig]] on the stories. In 1994 he did the art for [[Carl Barks]]' final script, ''[[Horsing around with History]]'', which was released in ''[[Uncle Scrooge Adventures]]'' #33 (October 1994).

Here is a list of characters William Van Horn created for the Duck universe:
* Baron Itzy Bitzy – a whistling flea that Scrooge has.
* [[Rumpus McFowl]] – Scrooge's half brother who at first was believed to be Scrooge's cousin.
* Woimly Filcher – an enemy of Donald Duck and his nephews.

He often draws a small fly or mosquito flying around his comics. It is his "registered trademark", and if one finds it in a story, it's probably drawn by him.

== Reprints ==

In November 2020 it was announced that Van Horn's Disney comics would get comprehensively collected as a part of [[Fantagraphics]] ''[[Disney Masters]]'' line beginning in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/fantagraphics-collect-william-van-horn-ducktales-comics/ |title=Fantagraphics to Collect William van Horn's Donald Duck Comics |website=bleedingcool.com |date= 10 November 2020|access-date=2021-09-01}}</ref>

* ''Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Pie in the Sky: Disney Masters Vol. 18'', 2021, Fantagraphics, {{ISBNT|978-1-68396-441-4}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Inducks author|WVH}}
* [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/van-horn-william.htm William Van Horn] at the [[Lambiek|Lambiek Comiclopedia]]
* [http://wvh.barksbase.de/en/index.htm A fansite]

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