after graduation as the third Chinese-American to be hired there, and he worked on the "Waltz of the Flowers" and the "Arabian Dance" scenes in Fantasia (1940) and as first assistant animator on Dumbo (1941).

During World War II, Quon headed a team of 17 artists at Douglas Aircraft who illustrated repair manuals for its bombers and transports. He then returned to Disney and ran its publicity/promotions department, doing promo artwork for films including the 1946 releases Make Mine Music and Song of the South.

In 1951, Quon jumped to the advertising agency BBD&O as the first Chinese-American art director at a national advertising agency, then served as senior design artist at Sealright Co., a large packaging firm, from 1964 until his retirement in 1980.

He taught drawing, painting and advertisingcourses at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College from 1974-89 and accumulated a collection of more than 100 sketchbooks since 1980.

The Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles presented a retrospective exhibit of his work in 2005; he was one of five artists featured in " 'Round the Clock: Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles" at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Monterey Park, California, in 2012; and he received the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California in 2013.

And in 2017, he was featured in a father and son art exhibition in Red Bank, New Jersey, with his son Mike and in a solo exhibition at Santa Monica College's Emeritus Gallery.

His survivors also include his wife, Peggy; children Jeff, Tim and Sherrill; and four grandchildren.