Sunday, May 30, 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Finding Nemo

The photography blog What My Dad Saw has lots of vintage photos of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride. Like this one:

I loved this ride, and was very disappointed to learn that it's no longer in Disney World. The first time I went to Disney I was young enough to buy the whole thing...learning the truth didn't diminish my enjoyment in the least.

Via Superpunch


Tuesday, May 25, 2010

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

Pool-rates of the Carribean

Pirates of the Caribbean homage on the cover of Deadpool Corps #3.

Deadpool used to be my favorite Marvel character (when Joe Kelly was writing), back when he was the Robin Williams of comic books. But sadly, he's become the Robin Williams of comic books.

Via Robot Six

Monday, May 24, 2010

HOLY S#!T A TALKING DOG





These two talking dogs will never believe I have a talking dog.


From "The Ventriloquist" by Floyd Gottfredson, 1936.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Yoo-Hoo




When I was a kid I had this on one of those VHS tapes of public domain cartoons that you find at the Dollar Store. It cracked me up then and it still does today.

A sing-along reel for Mickey Mouse Clubs , "Minnie's Yoo Hoo"(1930).

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Hey, remember the time that Mickey Mouse, Popeye, and Felix...

...met Betty Boop, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy?
If you were reading the Serbian magazine Zabavnik #7 you do!

Ladies and gentlemen, a page from the single most 1930's comic strip of all time:



Read the entire story at Disney History.

Here's more Serbian Disney Weirdness.


Sunday, May 2, 2010

Study ABROAD





If you haven't been following Walt Disney's Comics lately, I suggest you turn off your computer and go down to your local comic shop ASAP. These images are from #704, part 2 of Casty's "Mickey Mouse and the World to Come" series. Eega Beeva, old-timey airplanes, giant robots, Z-Files, a villain who speaks only in rhyme..how could anybody not like this story? They have no soul, that's how.

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