Cartoonist. He and his long time partner, Hugh Harman, directed and produced many of the Warner Brothers Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s. They both originally worked as animators for Walt Disney before leaving and forming their own animated features known as Harman-Ising. Ising won an Academy Award for the 1940 cartoon "The Milky Way."