She falls out of the plane, and Mickey travels through a storm to land on a deserted island, inhabited by fierce natives who want to cook him alive. In a sequence based on the 1928 short Plane Crazy, Mickey puts together a homemade plane, and takes a flight with his girlfriend Minnie. The strip begins with young Mickey as an optimistic, imaginative young mouse living on a farm, and dreaming of becoming a great aviator like his hero, Charles Lindbergh. The comic strip launched on January 13, 1930, written by Disney himself, with art by Ub Iwerks. If you can find time to do one, I shall be very interested in seeing some specimens." The Disney team was busy producing new cartoons, but by November, samples of the new strip were approved by the syndicate.
Please consider producing one in comic strip form for newspapers. There are fourteen volumes in the set-twelve books of the daily strips from 1930 to 1955, and two volumes of Gottfredson's Sunday pages from 1932 to 1938.Ī Mickey Mouse comic strip was suggested by Joseph Connolly, the president of King Features Syndicate, in a Jletter to Disney animator Ub Iwerks: "I think your mouse animation is one of the funniest features I have ever seen in the movies.
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, a definitive collection of Gottfredson's work, was published by Fantagraphics Books from 2011 to 2018. Starting in 1940, strips were reprinted in the monthly comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, and since then Gottfredson reprints have become a staple of Disney comics publishing around the world. Gottfredson continued with the strip until 1975.īy 1931, the Mickey Mouse strip was published in 60 newspapers in the US, as well as papers in twenty other countries. Beginning with the strip, the art chores were taken up by Floyd Gottfredson (often aided by various inkers), who also either wrote or supervised the story continuities (relying on various writers to flesh out his plots). The early installments were written by Walt Disney, with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate. The strip debuted on January 13, 1930, and ran until July 29, 1995. Mickey Mouse is an American newspaper comic strip by the Walt Disney Company featuring Mickey Mouse, and is the first published example of Disney comics. Mickey and Horace Horsecollar from the Mickey Mouse daily strip created by Floyd Gottfredson and published December 1932īill Wright (Sundays only, 1942–1946, 1956, 1979–1983)
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