“Young people, where is your sense of self? Mickey Mouse is the shabbiest, most miserable ideal ever invented. Mickey Mouse is a recipe for mental enfeeblement. Healthy instinct should tell every decent girl and decent boy that those filthy, dirt-caked vermin, the greatest carriers of bacteria in the animal kingdom, cannot be made into an ideal animal type. [...] Down with Mickey Mouse, and up with the swastika!”
Nazi propaganda circa 1931, via the wildly fascinating A Mickey Mouse Reader
Here’s a delightful drawing of Mickey Mouse by ‘Disney duck artist,’ Carl Barks. I love this pic. It’s such a wonderful pose. You can almost feel the gravity pulling Mickey’s body forward as he makes his way through his Fred Astaire-like soft-shoe. So very classy! (Via.)
For some strange reason, the Walt Disney Company is claiming that TODAY is Mickey Mouse’s 85th birthday. Yet it only takes a quick Google search to see that the Mouse debuted six months earlier, on May 15, 1928.
What gives?
Is this the desperate act of an aging diva, or simply a clerical error? Your guess is as worthless as mine. But the fact remains, Mickey Mouse is 85 AND A HALF years old today, and Minnie and I want to make sure the whole world knows it!
M-I-C
See? There ARE badass Mickey Mouse tees.
K-E-Y?
Why? Cuz not all Disney fans want to look like they bought their swag at Wal-Mart.
M-O-U-S-E!!!
