Mickey, Minnie, Goofy

MEDIUM: Original Sunday Comic Strip, Drawing, and Proof
IMAGE SIZE: Pencil on 10.5" x 15.25" paper; Drawing image size: 9" x 13.5"; 7.25" x 10.25" newspaper comics section
COMIC: Mickey Mouse, 1969
SKU: CCV2609

ABOUT THE IMAGE: This is artist-writer Del Connell's polished original drawing in pencil for the Mickey Mouse Sunday page published in newspapers on October 19, 1969 plus the matching printed version from a newspaper Sunday comics section. Mickey and Minnie visit Goofy, who is fishing for his missing shoe. The year 1969 was Mr. Connell's first writing the Mickey Mouse comic strip, yet he handled it like a veteran of many years.

"Oct 19" is handwritten in red pencil above the title panel; "Nov 2" is crossed out when the episode was rescheduled.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Artist/writer Del Connell began working in the model department at The Walt Disney Studios in 1939. A studio writer and storyman from 1941 to 1954, he joined Western Publishing as a comic book writer and eventually became an editor-in-chief. From 1968 through the late 1980s he wrote the Mickey Mouse newspaper comics daily strip and Sunday page. In writing the strip, he drew a preliminary version of the feature for that day in pencil; it was then approved (and/or changed) by editors in the Disney Publications Department and turned over to Manuel Gonzales, who drew the inked, published version. Just prior to Connell's passing at age 93 in 2011 he was honored at the San Diego Comic-Con with the Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award.