Hey Tom!

Have I got a mug for you! (They have a tee shirt, too, but it only appears to be in the Upstart catalog.)

Re: Disney:

I may have said this before, but the original animated "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" was actually better than the book, The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, IMO. She has two pair of dalmatian parents, one set black and one set brown. Disney's consolidation into one pair, Pongo and Perdita, cleans up the plot considerably.

Kiddie lit trivia: Bill Peet, an award-winning picture book author, started out in the Disney studios as a clean-up artist for Donald Duck cartoons. He later became part of Disney's development team and was the lead animator for Pongo in "101D". He also drew Merlin in "The Sword and the Stone" to resemble the cranky, imaginative, short-tempered, generous genius for whom he worked.

Regards--
Mary Anne