Designs on Mickey Mouse

IN his cartoon of May 17, Steven Camley depicts Mickey Mouse with the modified eyes that were acquired in Ward Kimball’s 1939 redesign of the character, but seems not to have noticed that at the same time the red shorts were replaced by conventional clothes.

In other respects, though, he does better than Disney himself. Though undoubtedly a brilliant ideas man, Walt shouldn’t have persisted in pretending to be an artist.

He dreaded meeting groups of children, who would inevitably want him to draw Mickey Mouse, something he never learned to do convincingly despite repeated attempts at coaching him by animators.

Robin Dow, Rothesay.