At one point, Walt was hired to work at the Kansas City Star newspaper. He was later fired from the paper for his “lack of creativity”. (Years later, The Walt Disney Company would buy ABC which owned The Kansas City Star.)
Actually Disney was smart enough to partner with Ubbe Iwerks, the real creator of Mickey Mouse, who he later screwed over. The original Mickey Mouse cartoon was Steamboat Willie. In it Mickey is piloting a one-man tugboat that runs into disaster at every turn.
Might also read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_...key.27 s_name - it includes info about Mickey & Minnie sex/drug cartoons