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Maybe a stupid question:
Do there exist any drawings of e.g. Mickey Mouse made by Walt Disney himself?
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Appelquist

If you look online on other websites, you may find your answer.

PixarFan2006 wrote:If you look online on other websites, you may find your answer.

????? I dont think that was a lot of help.


Yes of course, there are plenty in the Disney archives. If you have an extra 14K lying around(most of my life savings) you could get this one.

http://www.goantiques.com/detail,walt-d ... 99738.html

There was a Walt Drawn Mickey in the Mickey Mouse in Living Color V1.

Thank you very much for kind answer.
My english is not so good, maybe therefore it is hard for me to find drawings made by Disney HIMSELF. They are hard to find aren't they?
I thought it would be funny to see e.g. Mickey Mouse drawn by Disney and not by e.g. Ub Iwerks. Thank you for the link!
I think that The Alice Comedies was made by Walt Disney alone, but I'm not sure.
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Appelquist

apple - finding them can be tough depending on what you are talking about. If you want to own an original it is extremely difficult. I imagine finding prints would not be that difficult. Finding examples on the internet is not that tough.

Alice Comedies were made by Disney, Iwerks and others. Ham Hamilton and Thurston Harper was involved in principal animation. Hugh Harmon and Rudolph Ising who had been working on the Laugh O Grams Kansas City and later created the Looney Toons and worked at MGM joined later on.

Except perhaps the very early days of his carreer, years before Mickey Mouse, Walt had other people making the drawings, as we know. But he did learn how to draw a rather "crude" Mickey to include with autographs - like the one we see in that link.

No but if you find one, print it out and try to sue Disney for the copyright to the character!

Lars Vermundsberget wrote:Except perhaps the very early days of his carreer, years before Mickey Mouse, Walt had other people making the drawings, as we know. But he did learn how to draw a rather "crude" Mickey to include with autographs - like the one we see in that link.

Thats not entirely true. Walt could draw more than a crude Mickey Mouse and did do some of the drawing in the very early Mickeys. But Iwerks was certainly the primary artist.

No, not entirely so, of course - it is documented that Walt had some drawing skill. But did he ever do any of the animation or draw anything in the "actual production" of the early Mickey?

Not a Mickey Mouse drawing, but in the documentary "The Man Behind the Myth", there is a scene in a Laugh-O-Grams cartoon that the narrator credits as being drawn entirely by Walt as they show it.

I don't believe he was doing any animating himself by the time Mickey came around.

Mr. Toad wrote:

PixarFan2006 wrote:If you look online on other websites, you may find your answer.

????? I dont think that was a lot of help.


Yes of course, there are plenty in the Disney archives. If you have an extra 14K lying around(most of my life savings) you could get this one.

http://www.goantiques.com/detail,walt-d ... 99738.html

There was a Walt Drawn Mickey in the Mickey Mouse in Living Color V1.

I'd love to have that drawing. Maybe if I play the lottery?

Apparently Walt Disney's drawing skills could not come up to the skills of his crew. What did his practical work consist in?
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Appelquist

appelquistdk wrote:Apparently Walt Disney's drawing skills could not come up to the skills of his crew. What did his practical work consist in?
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Appelquist

How about managerial and financial skills in order to create jobs!!! That's a skill!!!

Managerial skills no doubt, and artistic inspiration - but even though Walt may have had some sort of good business sense in the long run the financial skills were first and foremost taken care of by his brother Roy O.

Very interesting. Thank you very much.
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Appelquist