Heads up for catamites: you would probably dig the Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse strips. Pictured above are an ominous newspaper ad and a strip where Mickey is preparing to blow his brains out.
There was also a sequence where Mickey was riding through the desert, avoiding crooks and law-men who want to lynch him. Desperate gunslingers declaring that they're going to go bump off that Mickey Mouse to collect the $500 reward.
I'm going through the book of these Fantagraphics put out. They start in 1930. There's a part where it seems to suggest that Mickey and Minnie are teenagers, which I found to be unexpectedly weird. They live in a rural village with all their barnyard friends and the occasional racial stereotype. Mickey's really into cheese in these strips, too. I can't recall him ever really giving a shit about cheese elsewhere. These stories pre-date the era when he was able to overcome his primal rodent nature through sheer force of will.
The story in which Mickey escapes the Phantom Blot's death traps is years away from the material in this book, unfortunately.
As is this:
I first saw these strips in one of Bill Blackbeard's huge strip collections (either "Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics" or "100 Years of Comic Strips,") which are still the best books to grab if you're looking for an introduction to the history of newspaper strips (almost exclusively pre-1950s.) If you think your interests aren't insular and dorky enough, then YOU TOO can learn the Barney Google song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOHg5uuZjwYFans of Mickey Mouse will also enjoy Al Columbia's "Pim and Francie:"
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