Before he created Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney drew cartoons of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Universal Pictures and Charles Mintz.
And while Mickey (and friends) went onto bigger, better and a more lucrative future, poor Oswald wasn’t quite so lucky.
This was the first of these films which was released to theatres.
Click Here to see Oswald The Lucky Rabbit’s first short feature
If I were Oswald I would be suing Mickey…cause other than a different set of ears and a bit of a bigger butt he Oswald IS Mickey!
. . . explains why you never see the two together in the same place at the same time really