The One-Man Cartoon Factory?

Eighty Years Late To Get Your Christmas Pig Pattern

The above is from 1933. Implied again is notion that Walt Disney personally drew his cartoons, and from how credits for the shorts read, what other conclusion could there be? Disney was by his own admission not much of an artist, but he was determined that the company and all its works revolve around his name, a sound approach to product branding. Most children probably grew up thinking Walt drew all the Disney stuff, realization he didn't  coming on heels of knowledge there was no Santa Claus. But wait --- are there adults today who assume WD sat at easel to create and see through all of Mickey, Donald, and company? Many know little enough about animation to assume it could be a one-man operation. Disney apparently didn't discourage belief that he drew. If fans asked for a Mickey sketch, he'd give it to them. The Feg Murray cartoon above reveals in fact the impossibility of Disney personally doing his own stuff. To topic of further product branding, there is the ad at left for McCall's pattern for the Three Little Pigs from a 12/12/33 newspaper. Disney licensed characters to increase awareness of output and collect revenue from sale of doo-dads bearing mouse, duck, and pig imprint. Here was where profit increasingly was for the company, it being tough to break even on cartoons Walt habitually overspent to make. The Pig Pattern served as Christmas giving in 1933, each item presumably Mom-made and thus unique. How many of such survive today, and how collectable would they be?