Wisconsin Rapids: Birthplace of Betty Boop's Creator RoadyGoat
Wisconsin Rapids, the paper-mill town on the Wisconsin River, is the birthplace of Myron 'Grim' Natwick, born Myron Nordveig on August 16, 1890, into a Norwegian family whose name was Americanized to Natwick. Working for Max Fleischer's New York studio in 1930, Natwick designed Betty Boop — the doe-eyed, short-skirted cartoon flapper who became the animated face of the Jazz Age and one of the first cartoon sex symbols. He later served as a lead animator on Disney's Snow White (1937) and lived to be 100.
