Lot 397: An original Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse and His Friends daily comic strip

An original Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse and His Friends daily comic strip
King Features Syndicate, dated 11-17-1958. Pen and ink on illustration board, matted and framed. Mickey Mouse gathers eggs when he discovers an unusually shaped one. Floyd Gottfredson [1905-1986] began working on the four-month-old Mickey Mouse daily comic strip in 1939 and continued to produce them for the next 45 years. The strips were part of a continuing story, with Gottfredson plotting out the continuities until Bill Walsh took over in 1943. In the 1950s, they were told to drop the storylines and do only daily gags, which Gottfredson continued illustrating until he retired in 1975. Overall: 12.25 x 25 x 2 in.; within mat: 6.5 x 9.25 in.