Oh Captain, My Captain

I saw Captain EO at Epcot on my recent Disney trip. I hadn't seen it since it first opened there in 1986, and I'm not even kidding when I say it brought tears to my eyes. Like all little kids in the 80's I was obsessed with Star Wars and Michael Jackson, so this attraction hit me right where I lived.  Looking at it through grown-up eyes, the whole thing is incredibly overblown and ridiculous, but nostalgia's a hell of a drug.

Captain EO! He transforms Borgs into mulleted dancers through the power of music! If you don't love that that then I don't want to know you.

I am the surprise in your cereal box!

Darkwing Duck by Nate Lovett 

From I Love Cartoons!

Pixar just got awesome.

Awesome Pixar characters from the awesome Super Punch.  Awesome!

Punk Rock

Tron Legacy Daft Punk action figures

An Epic Of Epic Epicness

Epic Mickey Opening Cinematic 

More great Comicon news

Fantagraphics to publish the complete Gottfedson Mickey Mouse.

Room For One More

Weirdness In Advertising Week continues with this pair of Haunted Mansion commercials.

Neither Brave nor Bold. Discuss.

(I know these aren't really Disney, but if you squint real hard you can justify their inclusion here, what with the Marvel merger and the Warren Beatty movie.)

From the fantastic blog The Brave and the Bold: The Lost Issues.

Via The ISB.

Art Appreciation

Sometimes with greats like Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby, or Carl Barks, you start to take them for granted and forget just how good they really were. Recently I reread the 1950 story "Big Top Bedlam" and was reminded just how awesome the Good Duck Artist really was.


These panels look like they could be stills from an animated cartoon. This segment would look just as fresh in any modern comic book, and that's just one of many awesome bits to this story. Check this out:

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL COMICS!

If you've never read this story then quit reading this blog and click the link. Its weirdness quotient is through the roof, but more importantly it's a great piece of work from a master cartoonist at the top of his game.

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.

Tron Guy!

Tron Guy!

Uncanny Valley

This video has been making the rounds for a while now, but I still felt compelled to post it here because, come on, how could I not?
The Internet is a beautiful, scary thing.

Via Cartoon Brew, AV Club, and about a million other sites.

In my world, the books would be nothing but pictures.

Amazing Alice in Wonderland Tattoos.

via Cartoon Brew.

Approved by the Comics Code Authority?

Panels from an officially licensed Disney comic book:

Bad. Ass.

From Haunted Mansion #7, SLG comics, 2007.

And then there were six!

Click to read the most violent Disney comic ever.

Via the Disney Comics Forum

Afroduck

From Afrodisiac by Brian Maruca and Jim Rugg.

OH HELL YEAH

NEW DUCKTALES COMICS FROM BOOM!

!!!!!!!!

Wasn't expecting this announcement- new Darkwing Duck comics from Boom!

Sweeeeet.

A Model Citizen

Some mad genius has built a scale model of Uncle Scrooge's money bin, based on Don Rosa's blueprints. View his Flickr set here.

Via the Disney Comics Twitter Page

Addendum:

Calisota Online also has an incredible Myspace page that is a virtual cornucopia of Disney Weirdness. Just take a look at this photo album! This is why I love the Internet.