Mickey Mouse and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks again served as the head animator, assisted by Johnny Cannon, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson and Dick Lundy. This short was intended as a parody of Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", first released on May 12 of the same year. Although it was the third Mickey cartoon produced, it was the first to find a distributor, and thus is considered by The Disney Company as Mickey's debut. "Willie" featured changes to Mickey's appearance (in particular, simplifying his eyes to large dots) that established his look for later cartoons and in numerous Walt Disney films. The cartoon was
Mickey Mouse Weekly Mickey Mouse Weekly Mickey Mouse Weekly was a weekly British tabloid comic, the first with full colour photogravure printing. 920 issues were published by Willbank Publications and then Odhams Press between 8 February 1936 and 28 December 1957. The comics were said to be "drawn in a slick, smooth style which was clearly influenced by American comics". On 21 July 1951, Enid Blyton's "The Secret Seven" began appearing in the "Mickey Mouse Weekly". It ceased production after Odhams lost the rights to the Disney characters. Non-Disney content was continued in the "Zip" comics, and Walt Disney then published "Walt Disney's