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Inked Publicity Drawing for Donald's Cousin Gus, May, 1939

Artist: Hank Porter (Inker)

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Inked Publicity Drawing for Donald's Cousin Gus, May, 1939 Comic Art

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Color Publicity Still Photograph Based on Drawing

5 of the 6 Publicity Still Photographs for Donald's Cousin Gus

Back Cover of Mickey Mouse Magazine, June 1939

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Artwork Details

Title:	Inked Publicity Drawing for Donald's Cousin Gus, May, 1939
Artist:	Hank Porter (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Animation
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,134
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Added to Site:	7/3/2006
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Description

By 1939, the publicity department at Disney was producing still photographs which were taken from inked drawings, such as this, as well as stills made by photographing cel and background set ups. The corresponding drawing for the cel version of this still is posted here as well. This drawing was used for the back cover of a Mickey Mouse Magazine in 1939, where it was given the look of a cartoon poster. The actual poster, however, has a very different image and is based on a separate inked drawing -- which, in my opinion, is not nearly as good as this image.

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The Story of Inked Disney Publicity Drawings Pt. 8.

I no longer own twon of the three inked drawings which I have at times owned for the Mickey, Goofy, and Donald cartoon, Lonesome Ghosts. I still have one of the two I've had which show Goofy and ghosts. It is the only Inked drawing I have with Goofy, which, along with my one drawing with Pluto, completes the subset of drawings of all the major Disney characters from the Mickey Mouse series of animated short cartoons.

The third Lonesome Ghost drawing which I once owned was one of two oversized publication model sheet drawings which I know to exist. The other, for The Fox Hunt, was included in a Christie's East auction more than 30 years ago. I never intended to buy the one frm Lonesome Ghosts. It had been in a Russ Cochran auction, and I didn't even bid on it. It failed to sell, and I was very surprised a few weeks after the sale when it arrived in the mail. I received a call from the Boston area comic art dealer who had consigned the piece to Russ. He asked Cochran to send it on to me, hoping that I might like and buy it. He was right; even though it was a different type of publicity drawing, with just a series of images of the three staring characters in poses taken from other publicity stills, I thought it was rather unique and worth having. I eventually sold or traded it to a friend. I has since appeared at at least one auction, and it has been described as an original animation model sheet. In fact, still photographs were made from this type f inked drawings, just like the photos made from the typical inked publicity drawings. These were either used in theater lobbies, and they might have also been distributed for use by artists in connection with the making of books and merchandise.
True animation model sheet originals were drawn on animation paper, not on Stratmore.

I once owned an inked drawing for Moving Day, with Mickey, Donald, and Black Pete, but it only had images of the characters with no background details. It had been in the 1989 Christie's East auction, at which time I didn't bid on it. I bought it out of one of Hoard Lowery's auctions, but never became very fond of it; so it went.

A similar drawing withut background details from Mickey's Rival was also in the 1989 auction. It turned up again at a Sotheby's NY comic art auction, when it sold for $2,000. I didn't bid on it either time.

I also boght at a Howard Lowery action an inked drawing for Mother Goes Hollywood of Deitrich and Edward G. Robinson . It illustrated the nursery rhyme, See-Saw Marjory Daw, a rhyme which I never knew. It didn't add much to the example I already had, so I eventually sold it.

So, that's about it for inked publicity drawings. More are likely to turn up some day, and ones which have been arund in the past will surely turn up again. I would buy almost any other than those which I once owned yett parted with. But they turn up so infrequently that I can be content and extremely grateful to have those which I have managed to acquire after more than 40 years of effort.

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