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Walt Disney gets all the credit for creating Mickey Mouse, but it was actually his best friend Ub Iwerks who first brought the iconic character to life in 1928.
Kansas City takes a lot of pride in being the place where Walt Disney started his first animation studio and created his first cartoon characters.
But here s the thing: Walt Disney didn’t design Mickey Mouse. And the stories he told for years about how the iconic character came to be aren’t true.
To know the truth about Mickey Mouse and the secret to many of Walt Disney’s successes, you have to know the story of Disney s best friend: Kansas City animator Ub Iwerks. It was Iwerks, not Disney, who in 1928 designed Mickey Mouse and single-handedly animated the first Mickey cartoon in Hollywood.
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