Steamboat Willie and included the songs "Steamboat Bill", a composition popularized by baritone Arthur Collins during the 1910s, and "Turkey in the Straw," a composition popularized within minstrelsy during the 19th century. The title of the film is a parody of the Buster Keaton film "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (1928), itself a reference to the song by Collins. Walt Disney performed all of the voices in the film, although there is little intelligible dialogue. While the film has received some criticism, it has also received wide critical acclaim, not only for introducing one of the world's most popular cartoon characters, but for its
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