Rick Griffin: Mickey Mouse Wants You

Rick Griffin takes James Montgomery Flagg's iconic World War I "I Want You" poster and has some fun with it for Walt Disney. Later Alton Kelley frames the preliminary drawing.

Rick Griffin, Mickey Mouse Wants You
Frame by Alton Kelley

Rick Griffin, Mickey Mouse Wants You

Frame by Alton Kelley 

Bonhams Los Angeles, June 14, 2009

Unsold

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Rick Griffin, Mickey Mouse Wants You

Note:  The original Flagg poster is in yesterday's post here.

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Summer for Mickey Mouse and Friends

Have a great summer. This is how Mickey Mouse Magazine welcomed in the summer with its very first quarterly issue in 1935.

Oh, and for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, have a great winter!

Mickey Mouse Magazine, Vol. 1, #1, Summer 1935

 http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/mickey-mouse-magazine

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