Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Blog

We have decided to post this original from Mighty Mouse today for two reasons.

One: Is there anything more disconcerting than a tearful, sweaty Mighty Mouse? We could hardly resist hugging the actual original art for this page upon finding it in the collection, though we know it would be bad for the paper.

Original art from "Mighty Mouse", unknown artist. From the Mark J. Cohen and Rose Marie McDaniel Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

Two: We have very little  information on it. For those of you who did not catch this, we were extremely inspired by our readers a few weeks back when we posted a hilarious page we called The Tall Circus on the blog that we couldn’t find a source for, and the information was revealed in the comments section by the artist himself! After that great experience, we thought we would start occasionally featuring work like this to ask for your help. In the world of comics, the fans are often the scholars.  No one is getting a Ph.D in Comics Studies (yet), and it is empowering to work with a medium where the experts are members of the comics-reading-and-making community, who are some of the most friendly and enthusiastic people you could meet.  We are very proud to be a part of that community.

We know that this is a page from the Mighty Mouse series published by St. John Publishing, Co. We even know that it is page 13 from  issue number 25! But who is the artist that captured such fret in dear Mighty Mouse’s face? If you recognize this heart-wrenching page from an old issue of a Mighty Mouse comic, we would love your help.