When Mickey’s Career Turned a Page

Beginning January 13, 1930, Mickey Mouse’s adventures entered the homes of Americans on a day-to-day basis, helping to fast rack his role as a beloved cultural icon.

Animated cast of Disney film Mickey, Donald, and Goofy: The Three Musketeers

Five Reasons to Love Mickey, Donald, and Goofy: The Three Musketeers

From office fencing matches to a throwback to old Hollywood, we’ve got some trivia bits you might not have known about this animated gem.

Mickey Mouse’s Lost Pirate Adventure

These storyboards from Morgan’s Ghost, drawn by Harry Reeves, Homer Brightman, and Roy Williams, help us visualize what this short may have looked like if it had been animated.

Mickey in his true color debut in 1932's Parade of the Award Nominees

Mickey Mouse Wore Green Shorts and Yellow Gloves In His Color Debut

Best known as something it isn’t, Mickey Mouse’s first color cartoon, The Band Concert, nevertheless changed Mickey’s and Donald’s careers forever.

Sketch of Mickey Mouse and Minnie the Shimmy in an early cartoon

Discover the Secret Behind Mickey Mouse’s First Words

These vintage story sketches show Mickey Mouse’s speaking debut in the 1929 short, The Karnival Kid.

Walt Disney looking at original story sketches for Karnival Kid

Walt Disney Reminisces About Early Mickey Mouse Artwork

Before the storyboarding process was pioneered by the Disney Studios in the early 1930s, story sketches for an animated short were often drawn comic-book style with several panels to a page.

illustration of Mickey Mouse in Las Vengeance Des Chats

Belgian Mickey Mouse Art From the Disney Archives Depicts Our Favorite Pal Cornered by Cats

Titled “La Vengeance des Chats” [“The Revenge of the Cats”], “Dessin de Theu” [Drawing of Theu] the illustration highlights a dubious (yet comical) feline attraction to everyone’s favorite mouse.

Unwrapping Mickey’s Birthdayland at Magic Kingdom

Mickey’s Birthdayland was meant to be a temporary land that occupied the approximate three-acre space adjacent to Fantasyland that’s currently part of Storybook Circus in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park.

A Mickey Mouse Short We’re Sure You Don’t Have on a Treasures DVD

The ever-released short Spring Cleaning began development in 1933, as an ordinary “domestic type of picture” with Mickey and the gang.

Mickey Mouse Club Circus at Disneyland

Titled the Mickey Mouse Club Circus, it will present animal acts and aerialists, clowns and elephants and introduce to the public, for the first time in person, the Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers, including Jimmy Dodd, the Grand Mouseketeer as Ringmaster and Roy Williams, the “Big Mooseketeer,” as the Circus Strong Man.