By Bob Hicks
You might have noted that today is April 1, also known as April Fool’s Day.
That accounts for the headline above.
But we’re not foolin’ about the picture. Artdaily reports here that this 1932 poster of Mickey Mouse, when he was a mere mouseling only 4 years old, pulled in $35,850 in a recent Heritage Auctions sale of vintage movie posters. Overall, the auction notched $1.5 million in sales, which also included a 1953 Paramount half-sheet for The War of the Worlds and a primo 1938 Boris Karloff Frankenstein.
Here at Art Scatter World Headquarters we can think of other ways to drop 35 grand — a term or two of college tuition for one of the Large Smelly Boys, for instance. But we admire the passion that drives a collector to such extremes.
If the folks at Disney will pardon the expression, that’s a mighty mouse.
One question: Is it OK to tack it to the bedroom wall?
British newspapers have this thing called a sense of humor, a quality generally unknown to the American Daily Blat, which is a fine if sorely troubled institution but not one generally known for its wit. So when special days roll around — and what day is more special than