This just in from Jim Korkis:

[Don't know if you have run this image before....a card supposedly drawn by Floyd Gottfredson for newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst's 79th birthday April 1942

I also think you will enjoy my MousePlanet column today on Walt's Hollywood homes. 

Next week I have one on Walt's Studios and the following week on Walt's Hollywood Hangouts.]

I have to admit that I am really looking forward to being in June to be able to pick up Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: "Race to Death Valley" (Vol. 1), then in October to get Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: "Trapped on Treasure Island" (Vol. 2). Granted, I have already read all of the Gottfredson strips, thanks to a half-bootleg edition released in East Germany many years ago, but what will make those two volumes (and the ones that will follow them) special is the quality of the 50-page of editorial content that each will contain. David Gerstein has done a spectacular job lining up the best Disney-comics historians (starting with himself) for the job and the visual documents he has unearthed will bring suprises even to those of us who know most about Disney history.

Can't wait.

This just in from David Lesjak:

[Further to your post about the strips / comic...attached is a piece of art from the collection of my good friend and fellow Disney researcher Dennis Books, which relates to what you've posted.]

Jim Korkis just discovered a great site that features all of Floyd Gottfredson's Disney paintings.