Those great caricatures by artist Toño Salazar were released in the Spanish magazine Cinegraf (July 1935). I thought you might enjoy them.

I am certain that some of you will enjoy this caricature by Victor Valdivia released on the cover of the Argentine magazine Caras y Caretas from April 10, 1937. Not sure who the political figure caricatured is.

Do not miss today:

- A Visit to Edison Square 1959 by Jim Korkis
- Exclusive Excerpt from “Walt’s People” by Amid Amidi

Italy, February 1933, during the carnival of Viareggio.

Here is another book about True-Life Adventures naturalist-cinematographers Lois and Herb Crisler, which I had the pleasure to discover a few days ago.

I think that most of you will thoroughly enjoy this article, which I discovered a few days ago.

There is an new blog in Italian which will be worth checking out from time to time: La Grotta del Fumetto.

I was caught totally by surprise yesterday when I read about this newly released book.

A collection of Disney-related interviews is always a "must-have" for me so I will be ordering right away.

The book includes interviews with Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), Tommy Kirk (Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog), Ann Jillian (Babes in Toyland), Billy Mumy (Rascal), Arthur Hiller (director of Miracle of the White Stallions), Marta Kristen (Savage Sam), James Drury (Pollyanna, Ten Who Dared), Eddie Hodges (Summer Magic, The Happiest Millionaire), Peter Brown (Summer Magic, A Tiger Walks), and many more.

I can't begin to tell you how excited I was to stumble this weekend upon the recently released autobiography of John Tishman. Tishman supervised, among other things, the building of EPCOT, and a whole chapter in this book is dedicated to his experiences with Disney.

D23 Presents: Armchair Archivist - A Visit To Marceline!

Do not miss today:

- How Jim Korkis Invented the Term Disney Historian by Jim Korkis
- New Heights: Walt Disney’s Mineral King by Werner Weiss
- New Heights: Mount Disney and Sugar Bowl by Jeff Pepper
- New Heights: Walt and the Winter Olympics by Michael Crawford

Kay Kamen in Europe - Need help from an Italian reader

I need help from one of the Italian readers of this blog. I stumbled upon this article while conducting a totally different search within online Italian archives. Forget the image on the two pages, which is totally irrelevant. The article itself titled C'era una volta? no: c'è adesso, was released in the Italian magazine Cinema illustrazione from June 5, 1935. It was written by Luigi A. Garrone, who is credited as a Disney writer on at least one Italian comic book story from 1937 and it is based on an interview with Disney's merchandizing guru Kay Kamen who was spending his honeymoon in Europe at the time.

Could one of you translate it for us?

Disneyland - 4.26 - Magic Highway U.S.A.

This just in from Julie Svendsen:

[While going through some things here at home, I found a Disneyland opening day souvenir guide that my mom and dad had saved. It included a nice invitation note signed by Walt Disney and a few tickets for the Mark Twain riverboat ride and a couple of "press passes".

I don't remember being there for opening day. We went there many, many times after that though.]

Do not miss today:

- M.J. Winkler + Felix the Cat = Walt Disney's Alice by David Lesjak
- The Genesis of Disneyland: the 1951 "Riverside Drive Park" by Maxime Bogaert

We watched a few months ago the newsreel of the Macy's Parade from 1934. Here is the one from 1935, which includes quite a few more Disney characters.

This just in from my Serbian friend Sasa Rakezic:

[I have found three more ads from Politika...

The first one (above) was a privately designed ad for a paint shop in Belgrade (published on June 12th, 1938). It says: "All the leather made objects, bags,shoes, furniture is painted in a most solid way by Tingirija." It's funny that they presented the one who works in a paint shop as Mickey Mouse!

The second ad is for the special edition of Politikin zabavnik, which includes reprints of several strips featuring Goofy and Mickey, and it says : "Soon coming out: Goofy Knows Everything, 15 stories about Mickey and Goofy, Price 6 dinars."

The third one is dedicated to the Pluto comics that were coming out in Politikin zabavnik ( 21.10.1940). It says: "Good dog Pluto again appears in Politikin zabavnik, along with Mickey, Goofy, the Katzerjammer Kids, Popeye and other favorite cartoon characters." ]

Help Needed in Georgetown!

Do we have readers of the blog living close to Georgetown University? If so, could you email me. I have just discovered there a few documents related to Disney and WWII and to Disney and the DOD and would need help accessing them.

And here is another Italian book I just discovered. Not certain yet how good it is. For those of you who speak Italian, Except for Mickey Mouse. The clash of cultures between fascism and the comics,which I mentioned last week, is an absolute "must have."

This just in from Jeffrey Jones:

[Many years ago, I read "Mickey's Tour Of The Walt Disney Animation Department". It was a three or four page article in a hardcover Donald Duck comic book (I believe published by Abbeville) explaining how animation is done, and used Disney characters in the roles of animators, editors, ink and paint, etc. Do you have access to that article? If so, I think many people would enjoy reading it on your Disney History Blog. I found one page of it online (in Italian) and I've attached it to this email.]

Those images really ring a bell. Could one of you remind me where they were initially released and would you have access to the full series?