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Animated Auction: Prices remained strong in the animation art market at an auction conducted by dealer Howard Lowery in Burbank on Sunday. The highest-priced item in the sale was a cel and background of Bambi and Thumper from Walt Disney’s “Bambi” (1942), which brought $27,000, twice its pre-sale estimate of $10,000 to $15,000. A 1934 Sunday panel of the Mickey Mouse comic strip by Disney artist Floyd Gottfredson, which had been estimated at $8,000 to $12,000, sold for $18,500. One of the most unusual items in the sale, an autographed grease pencil sketch of Mickey Mouse by Walt Disney, brought $16,000.