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Mortimer Mouse studies

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Ha-cha!
Presenting more fanart of characters very few others have done.

We discovered Mortimer more recently than some other characters we're fond of. I don't think they showed Mickey's Rival very much on the Disney Channel (then again, we didn't watch it that much compared to Nick or CN), and when House of Mouse had its original run, we were in our "cynical period" when Disney was "kiddie stuff".

In the corner there is Mr. Slicker, an early Floyd Gottfredson character from 1930, who as far as I'm concerned is a prototype Mortimer. They look extremely similar to point of it-can't-be-coincidence, and filled the same role as rival for Minnie's affections (though Mr. Slicker was notably more dastardly). Gottfredson did later use Mortimer in a couple stories (one a loose adaptation of the short, another where he's named Montmorency Rodent for some reason), and afterwards made sporadic appearances through the '70s and '80s in Italian, Spanish and Brazilian comics.

As you can see, I did this without reference (inevitable- there's really none to be had), and I'm surprised that in some aspects I kinda like my interpretation better. His snout is kinda big though.

~Criswell
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TwistedArtsticMind's avatar
Nice details of the sketch