Punch-Drunk Mouse

 

Mickey Mouse by William Steig

Doomy Mouse

 

Doomy Mouse by Kalaka Toys

Utopian Vision

 

Man From Utopia by Rick Griffin

Mickey Mouse Yesterday

 

Mickey Mouse Today!  by Joel Beck

from Yellow Dog #1

Get in the Zone

 

Some images from 1969's Tales From The Ozone

All Your Baseman Belong To Us

 

Mickey Mouse by Gary Baseman

From The Art of Mickey Mouse

The Micks Up

 

Mickey Mouse by:

Robert Crumb

Victor Moscoso

Mary Fleener

Gary Panter

From The Art of Mickey Mouse

Sixty is the New 93

 

Celebrating the Mouse's 93rd birthday by revisiting this souvenir magazine from his sixtieth.

...Because we've got his HEAD in cold STORAGE.  by Ray Bradbury.

This incomplete Alien from the Great Movie Ride is the scariest gd thing I've ever seen in my life.

No, wait, this neon Brer Fox is scarier.

Hopefully it's better than what they teach at Cluck U.

One last quick hit of nostalgia before we wrap this thing up, it's Mickey's Birthdayland!

Look, I know I was "too old" for this sort of thing in 1988, but I was 100% unironically fascinated by Mickey's Birthdayland as a kid.  It was a real life Duckburg! It had the statue of Cornelius Coot and everything! You could go inside Mickey's house!!

My then-girlfriend now-wife and I went to Disney in 2005 and I took as many pictures as I could of "Mickey's Toontown Fair" because you just knew it wasn't long for the 'World.  Don't get me wrong, the Barnstormer is great, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss Birthdayland just a little.

Beat Happening

 

So I learned from a thread on the Fethry Society message board that there is a "classics illustrated"-type parody of On The Road starring Mickey and Goofy?

This On the Road?

This one???

I mean, yeah Goofy and Dean Moriarty share some similarities, I guess?  

                                                                                    A-hyuck!

The whole thing seems wild to me.  I hope Fantagraphics or whoever gets to work on a translation ASAP.

Death To False Comics

 

If you had asked me a month ago which were the most heavy metal Disney comics, I probably would have pointed you towards Dragonlords or the Ice Sword Saga,  but I think Wizards of Mickey might actually have it beat.

The Yen Press reprint goes way further into the storyline than Boom!'s did, and in Book 2 Mickey Mouse is a sorcerer king who is falling under the corrupting influence of the disembodied shadow of the Phantom Blot.  I'm really digging this series so far, looking forward to ripping though all six(!) volumes.

Still Sixty After All These Years

 

Only Disney Weirdness has what the people have been clamoring for, Yakov Smirnoff's thoughts about Mickey Mouse.

Minnie only gets one page, because of the patriarchy.

Hey, it's Roman Arambula! and Mark Henn, Glen Keane, and Frank Thomas!  Glimpses of the artistic talent behind Disney productions were gold to me as a kid.  I was the type of kid whose parents had to drag him out of the Animation Building at Disney-MGM studios.

Aliens did it.

Annette!  Dolly!!

Other, lesser 1980s celebrities:

You do "gotta hand it to them."

 

Vitale Mangiatordi draws good hands.

Any amateur cartoonist will tell you, hands are hard to draw!  Cartoon funny animal hands are especially tough, and Mangiatordi is great at them.

Not like the rest of these guys are slouches by any means, but Mangiatordi's chapter is my favorite so far.

From Wizards of Mickey volume 1 from Yen Press.