Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Tom Wood

Disney art doesn't get much rarer or better than this. Tom Wood is still one of the most under appreciated of the early artists working for Disney despite his being one of the very best draftsmen to ever work at the studio. He may not have been an animator, but there were good reasons why Walt choose him to be the artist to introduce/publicize the studio's creations to the entire world, usually in advance of the release of related Disney short cartoons to theaters. Whoever began the notion that Disney publicity art is somehow inferior to Disney production/animation art simply had no clue what they were talking about, and it's a shame that that attitude has persisted to this day. If more people could see incredible examples of publicity art such as this, a much-overdue reappraisal might, and should, actually occur. Thanks for posting this fabulous piece.

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