The financially strapped International Museum of Cartoon Art will put a rare Mickey Mouse storyboard on the auction block for a second time in an attempt to resolve its cash crunch. The museum, located in Boca Raton, Fla., failed to find a buyer for the 36-panel storyboard drawn for the 1928 Walt Disney cartoon Plane Crazy the first time it was put up at auction May 19. The storyboard features the first drawings of Mickey Mouse, according to museum founder and Beetle Bailey comic creator Mort Walker. A new auction is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, June 8, at the New York offices of Guernsey’s auction house. The museum needs to sell the storyboard–which is estimated to be worth more than $3 million–to pay off a $2 million debt.
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