ART CLOKEY, 88

Animator created Gumby figure

Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday in his sleep at his home in Los Osos, Calif.

Gumby grew out of a student project Mr. Clokey produced at the University of Southern California in the early 1950s called "Gumbasia."

Mr. Clokey also created the moralizing and often-satirized claymation duo "Davey and Goliath."

The Lutheran Church hired Mr. Clokey to make the "Davey and Goliath" shorts.