Editing Floyd Gottfredson (section)

===Early life and career===
Gottfredson was born into a large family in [[Kaysville, Utah]], in 1905, and raised in the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].<ref name="Andrae"/> As a child, Floyd severely injured his arm in a hunting accident. Housebound during a long recovery, he became interested in cartooning and took several cartooning [[correspondence course]]s. Because of his injury, Gottfredson had to draw using his whole arm. In 1926, he took the Federal Schools of Illustrating and Cartooning's correspondence course, and by the late 1920s, he was drawing cartoons for trade magazines and the ''[[Salt Lake City]] Telegram'' newspaper.<ref name="Andrae">{{cite book|last1=Gottfredson|first1=Floyd|last2=Andrae|first2=Thomas|editor1-last=Gerstein|editor1-first=David|editor2-last=Groth|editor2-first=Gary|title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse|date=2011|publisher=Fantagraphics Books|location=Seattle, WA|isbn=978-1-60699-441-2|chapter=Foreword: Of Mouse and Man}}</ref>

After achieving second place in a 1928 cartoon contest, the 23-year-old Gottfredson moved to [[Southern California]] with his wife and family, just before Christmas. At the time, there were seven major newspapers in the area, but he was unable to find work with any. One job he had held in [[Utah]], however, was as a movie [[projectionist]] and he found employment in that field in California. A year later, the movie theater where he had been working was torn down, resulting in another job search. On a whim, Gottfredson inquired at [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney studios]], which hired him the same day.<ref name="Andrae"/>