After his family moved to Glendale, California, Taliaferro studied at the Institute of Art, California, and worked in publicity. In January 1931, he was hired at the Disney Studio of Hyperion Avenue as Animator, but soon went to the comic strip department.
In 1938, Al began working on the Donald Duck daily strips, and two years later on the Donald Duck sunday pages. He created many characters, including Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Donald's Grandma Duck, and he drew Daisy for the first time in the daily strips. Taliaferro's Donald comic strips became the most distributed Disney strip, and were immensly popular in the United States.
