Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Mickey Mouse</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-17
name: label: graphic artist
content: Disney, Walt
label: graphic artist
content: Gottfredson, Fred
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
label: publisher
content: Walt Disney Productions
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Mickey Mouse</i> comic strip shows Minnie saying she misses the birds’ songs after they fly south, so Marty opens a bird-whistle stand.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (1905-1986) began working for Walt Disney Studios in 1929 as an apprentice animator. After contributing to <i>Silly Symphonies,</i> a series of animated Disney shorts, Gottfredson was asked to take over the recently launched <i>Mickey Mouse</i> newspaper strip. Even though Walt Disney had been the original writer, and would continue to sign the strips, he gave Gottfredson responsibility for the art and the story shortly after its debut. Gottfredson originally wrote <i>Mickey Mouse</i> as an adventure strip, but by 1955 had changed the format to a “gag-a-day.” And though he only drew the Sunday pages for <i>Mickey Mouse</i> for six years during the 1930s, Gottfredson drew the daily strip until his retirement in 1975.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Mickey Mouse</i> (1930-1976) was a comic strip based on the character originally appearing in the short film <i>Steamboat Willie</i> in 1928. In the strip, as in films and other media, Mickey was joined by his girlfriend, Minnie, and his friends, including the most popular among them the dogs Goofy and Pluto.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mickey Mouse
label: Subject
content: Popular Culture
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22434
label: catalog number
content: 22434
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 53.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 21 1/16 in