Morgan Taylor, nominated for a Grammy, has died at 52. After a lengthy battle with cancer, Morgan Taylor, a multimedia artist who created music for children and art for them, died. “brief and sudden illness,”According to a GoFundMeHe was inspired by his friends. His 18-year-old wife Rachel Loshak and their children Harvey and Ridley survive him.
Taylor is most well-known for creating the World of Gustafer Yellowgold animation character. He was believed to have come from the sun. It was created for the CD/DVD “Gustafer Yellowgold’s Dark Pie Concerns,” which was released in 2015, that Taylor received a Grammy nod in the Best Children’s Album category.
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Interview with DaytonTaylor stated in 2015 that he had always wanted to be a comic-book artist as a child and that he hoped to one day move to New York City to work as an illustrator. After his rock group disbanded in 2003, his wife suggested he create a kids’ book project.
“One of my jobs, when I worked at Gem City Records, was to write up the new releases on the board, and I would draw a funny cartoon a lot,”He spoke of Gustafer Yellowgold’s birth. “I drew this yellow cat-faced looking guy, and that basically became Gustafer later. Once I started writing up the stories, we started showing them to people and people were excited about it right away. We printed up copies, bounded them at home with spray glue and twine and made 20 copies of the book and passed them around.”
Taylor’s memorial service will be held in Dayton on August 18. His obituary can be found here LegacyThese are some of the things the artist is most known for in his daily life.
“Morgan was unbeatable in Pictionary and Name That Tune. He was a lover of hot sauce and Funyuns, and had a weakness for puns, which he wrote, illustrated, and shared often,”The obituary was published. “Morgan truly was the best dad Harvey and Ridley could have asked for. He will be missed terribly by everyone who knew him.”
Watch one of Morgan Taylor’s animations down below.