Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short Plane Crazy. He went on to appear in over 130 films, including The Band Concert, Brave Little Tailor, and Fantasia. Mickey has also appeared in comic books such as Mickey Mouse, Disney Italy’s Topolino and MM – Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine.
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Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short Plane Crazy. He went on to appear in over 130 films, including The Band Concert, Brave Little Tailor, and Fantasia. Mickey has also appeared in comic books such as Mickey Mouse, Disney Italy’s Topolino and MM – Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine, and Wizards of Mickey. Mickey also features in television series such as The Mickey Mouse Club and others. He appears in other media such as video games as well as merchandising, and is a meetable character at the Disney parks. Mickey generally appears alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, his friends Donald Duck and Goofy, and his nemesis Pete, among others. Though originally characterized as a cheeky lovable rogue, Mickey was rebranded over time as a nice guy, usually seen as an honest and bodacious hero. In 2009, Disney began to rebrand the character again by putting less emphasis on his friendly, well-meaning persona and reintroducing the more adventurous and stubborn sides of his personality, beginning with the video game Epic Mickey. In 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mickey was first seen in a test screening of Plane Crazy on May 15, 1928, but it failed to impress the audience and Walt could not find a distributor for the short.
It was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks again as head animator, assisted by Johnny Cannon, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson, and Dicky Lundy. This second Mickey short, The Gallopin’ Gaucho, also was not released for lack of a distributor, which was also not released until November 18, 1928,. It was first released on November 18,. 1928, in New York City, and it was also the first time Mickey appeared in a comic strip, drawing primarily by Floyd Gottfredson, for 45 years. Mickey Mouse was conceived in secret while Disney produced the final Oswald cartoons he contractually owed to Charles Mintz, for the series of cartoons starring Oswald. The actor Mickey Rooney claimed that, during his Mickey McGuire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse after him. This claim, however, has been debunked by Disney historian Jim Korkis, since at the time of Mickey Mouse’s development Mouse’s working space at Warner Brothers was located on Hyperion Avenue for several years, and Walt Disney kept no professional relationship with Warner Brothers or other studios. Mickey had been Disney’s original name for the character before his wife, Lillian, convinced him to change it, and ultimately Mickey Mouse came to be. Mickey was also rejected as a female cow and male horse were also rejected, which later showed up in Iwerk’s own Flip the Frog series.
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