Mickey Mouse and the Seven Ghosts, 1936

I recently acquired a collection of old newspaper comic strip clippings. I enjoyed the drawings in this storyline about a group of ghosts confronted by Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck from November 1936.

I know Mickey and the gang have their devotees, but I don’t have that strong feeling, generally speaking. Mickey and his pals have never resonated with me as they do with people I know. As someone with decades of experience in the cartooning world once told me, “Mickey has no personality.” And since then, I think that’s been my general thinking. I wouldn’t…