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Poster Drawing for Donald's Better Self, March, 1938

Artists: Hank Porter (All) , Walt Disney Studio (All)

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Poster Drawing for Donald's Better Self, March, 1938 Comic Art

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Cartoon Poster for Donald's Better Self Based on Publicity Drawing

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Artwork Details

Title:	Poster Drawing for Donald's Better Self, March, 1938
Artist:	Hank Porter (All)
Artist:	Walt Disney Studio (All)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Animation
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,216
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Comments:	2
Added to Site:	6/29/2006
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Description

This was one of only two poster drawings that the ultimate source for most Disney publicity drawings kept for himself. He sold it to me about 40 years ago.

Collecting Disney Publicity Drawings from 1934-1942, Part 2:

I later learned that all of the publicity drawings offered for sale in the four direct sale catalogues of Collectors Book Store and those that were kept in the loose leaf notebook I first saw in July 1979 came from a single seller. He had worked at Disney Studio at one time and he was also the author of a book on Tarzan films. At some point, probably in the early 1970s, he had sold several thousand publicity still photographs from Disney films to Collectors Book Store. Included among those stills were the original publicity drawings, although no one seemed to know why the originals were present amongst the photographs, and it took me several years to discover the reason.

A few months after I started buying examples directly from the original Collectors Book Store hoard, a few additional publicity drawings were sold through some of the store's monthly auctions. I thought I had missed out on one of the latet drawings, from Donald's Dog Laundry, which had been offered in the first of those monthly auctions (No. 4, Nov. 1978), but it turned out that it had not met its reserve, so it had not actually sold. In 1980, when I was at the store at a time when Howard was not there, I was looking for a drawing I had on hold, with the permission of one of hte store owners, and I came across the Donald drawing. When I later informed Howard that I knew that he still had the drawing, he was not at all pleased that I had been snooping through his flat file, but he eventually sold the drawing to me. The first drawings I bought from one of Collectors' auctions were another drawing from Mickey's Man Friday for $105 and the poster drawing for Moose Hunters (1937) for $85. Since I had most of the other drawings from Collectors' investory on hold, only one or two othe publicity drawings ever made it into other monthly auctions. I did buy a few additional publicity drawings that were consigned to Collectors Book Store in the late 1970s, including two of my favorites, my first drawing used for the 1935 Robber Kitten Book and a drawing of the toys marching to the orphanage from Broken Toys (1935). I also bought a drawing for The Cookie Carnival, a few drawings for the 1936 Elmer Elephant book, and a drawkng for the 1937 Three Little Wolves linen book which had been consigned to Collectors by a Boston area dealer -- I later bought several more drawings directly from that dealer, and I eventually learned how publicity drawings had ended up in Boston. Continued...

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Johnny C.
Member Since 2010

Posted on 5/22/2014

Fantastic! Check out my 1930 publicity drawing.

Roger K.
Member Since 2005
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Posted on 2/9/2016

That is sooooo cool!

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