Original: Gumby was created by Art Clokey while a student of Slavko Vorkapich at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife, Ruth (nÃ e Ruth Parkander), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art finished film school at USC.
Simplified: Gumby was started by Art Clokey in 1953.