Can't wait to read this book when it is released later this year!
 

I will contact Doreen Tracey this week. She apparently wrote her autobiography in the '90s, called Confessions of a Mouseketeer (an excerpt of which was released in the book I Though My Father Was God. I would love to find out what happened to the complete memoir! More soon, hopefully.

Help needed! Found (?) autobiography of O.B. Johnston

Actually, it looks as if the autobiography of O.B. Johnston (right on the picture above) might even exist in English! There seems to be one copy among the Walter Lantz papers within the Performing Arts Special Collections at UCLA.

Does one of you study at UCLA? If so, would you be willing to try and locate this manuscript and get copies of it?

If you google ""Book manuscript by O.B. Johnston" you will find an answer which says "Book manuscript by O.B. Johnston and Mary Carey, 1981. Incl. letter from Walter Lantz to Charles Schultz regarding same book (2 items)." However the place the links takes you to (Finding Aid for the Walter Lantz Animation Archive, 1940-1979) does not display the location of the document or any information about the document itself.

Could anyone help?

Can any reader of this blog translate Japanese? If so, could you please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com? I will soon need your help since I may have unearthed the autobiography of O.J. Johnston who joined Disney in 1934 and headed Disney Consumer Products from the 1949 to 1972... in a Japanese magazine!

I had the pleasure to receive last week thanks to John Wigmans and Phil Rushton the autobiography of English artist Basil Reynolds, one of the two key artists of the 1930s Mickey Mouse Weekly, along with Wilfred Haughton. The autobiography had been published by Denis Gifford in the English fanzine The Illustrated Comic Journal.

I will release this document in a future issue of Walt's People.

As Jim Korkis (and Calvin and Hobbes) reminded me: "There's treasure everywhere."