Comments on: Florida Man Asserts He Owns Mickey

By: Mikado

Mikado — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:06:48 +0000

Mickey Mouse only had those qualities in 1930 (pie eyes, gloves buttons drawn a wide distance from each other)so, it certainly isnt the first Mickey…as to who drew it, Disney tended to draw muchg more “scetchy” than that, looks like a possible Earl Duvall (Who did the art on the first MM sundy comic strip) who tended to draw Mickey with a slightly oval head and longer snout….the year 1930 would make sense as Duvall left Disney not long afterwards.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:12:38 +0000

Hi Vivian

My name is Nicole, Jay Gould was a family member of mine who has passed i’d say several plus years after your linen drawing was created.Born in England coming to the US i believe in the late 20’s/early 30’s. He began with merry melody and looney tunes in thein the 40’s He he was known for his many betty boop illustrations as well as early disney proto types and cells in the mid 50’s. he worked on fantasia, chitty chitty bang bang and i think mary poppins {??} His oil landscape/enviromental artistry and pen /ink drawings put his gallery work in the eyes of many collectors such as barbara streisand. i have many treasured pieces and fond memories of his gentle being from from my childhood.

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By: Steve Burke

Steve Burke — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:28:11 +0000

I had a chance to meet Jay Gould, in 1986 or 1987. He was the man who designed most of the lettering for Disney; the Disneyland logo, the Mickey Mouse club logo. He also did the lettering for the credits in some/all of the early films where that was all hand-done. He also did a number of oil paintings that were used in a number of films. I don’t think he was ever an animator for Disney but I think he did quite a lot of art that appeared in their shows and probably the theme parks as well.

By: Vivian Orr

Vivian Orr — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:51:45 +0000

I’m not sure if you can help me but I can’t find a page to ask a question, so thought you might be able to give me a link. Hope so, but anyway, I am looking for some information on Jay Gould. I have a picture of Mickey he drew on a large linen napkin for a raffle at my high school reunion in 1987. I would like to know more about him but can’t seem to find any type of bio. Can you help? Thank you for your time. Vivian Orr, Yorba Linda, CA

By: chuck baker

chuck baker — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:54:10 +0000

One only has to google “steamboat willie” and look at the picture with black little eyes and hands .. case closed!

By: CoffeeJedi

CoffeeJedi — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:59:53 +0000

In the immortal words of Futurama’s newsmonster Morbo:
“LAWSUITS DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT!”
paraphrased

By: Ed South

Ed South — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:26:25 +0000

This guy in Tampa is an idiot! First of all, just because you own an old picture of something doesn’t give you the copywrite on it. Second, that doesn’t look anything like a 1920’s Mickey Mouse, it has several more modern looking qualities (like the phone, maybe!?)
But most interestingly, the film “Ub Iwerks: The Hand Behind the Mouse” put to rest the mythical story that Walt created or even ever drew Mickey. It was Ub who was held up at the studio all weekend (while Walt was in New York) trying to come up with the new character.
There is no “first drawing” of Mickey, and there really isn’t footage of Walt ever drawing Mickey. He didn’t really claim to draw him.
Sounds like another shmuck trying to milk a few bucks off of Mickey’s teet!