Winsor McCay, the father of animation, started out as a newspaper strip cartoonist. His most famous creation was Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905), a vividly colourful and surreal art nouveau strip ...

He's 90, he’s mighty – and here’s the story behind a cartoon legend who remains as big a draw as ever. Sketches unearthed from the Disney archives have been revealed for the first time to mark Mickey ...

From his pie-eyed beginnings in 1928 to his sleek modern animations, Mickey Mouse’s look and personality have transformed alongside nearly a century of pop culture. Each redesign reflects changing ...

Mickey Mouse, aged seven years, is the first film star to have repertory weeks. He has made cartoon films so popular that it is difficult to remember that the first animated cartoon was in 1911. In ...

A rare drawing of Mickey Mouse is to go on display in the UK in a pop-up exhibition. Drawn by Academy Award-winning animator Ub Iwerks in 1928 for Steamboat Willie, the drawing shows an early Mickey ...

In the beginning, Mickey was one mean mouse, summoned from the soul of his creator, Walt Disney, an animation pioneer described by his first biographer as "a man under the lash of private demons".