Not Comics: Walt Disney Bio Excerpt

Salon has an excerpt up of Neal Gabler's new biography of Walt Disney. I don't cover cartoons here at CR as a natural extension of comics: it just doesn't interest me, and I don't think exploring the link is necessitated any more than covering motion pictures on a photography site would be.

But: this is Walt Disney, and the Disney company has had an enormous impact on comics, including but not limited to these three fundamental ways: as a source for a worldwide licensed comics juggernaut, as a place many great cartoonists found work once upon a time, and because Walt Disney himself is the embodiment of the mogul-artist myth to which nearly everyone in all entertainment fields aspired at some point or another, including a ton of people in comics.

I'm not immersed in cartoons so for all I knew this biography has a stinky reputation, but I figure checking out a few pages might be of interest no matter what the buzz is like.
 
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