The B.O.B. Squad

 

I'm A Cult Hero

 

Now that this early incarnation of The Cult is back, I hope they use their old logo on the t-shirts.

I Don't Know About Art But

 

What We Like

by Mark Newgarden

From Bad News #3, 1988

Epic Fail

 

There's some interesting Disney-adjacent stuff in this old back issue of Epic Illustrated, Marvel's answer to Heavy Metal:

The main draw is a comics adaptation of the original Gelfling, Elric of Melnibone.

Then there's the Fraggle-esque Doctor Watchstop by Ken Macklin:

Apparently Doctor Watchstop made some appearances in Disney Adventures magazine back in the day.

Finally, enjoy a preview of the hotly-anticipated Star Wars sequel, "Revenge" of the Jedi:

There are lots more Heavy Metal and Epic scans on the Internet Archive, if that's your thing (it's definitely my thing).

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.

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:

Mickey Is Still Sixty

 

More pages from Mickey Is Sixty magazine, January 1988.

Collecting Mickeys

This "Mickey's Almanac" section is pretty funny.

Wmickey?

More pages soon!

Mickey Was Sixty

 

Time-Life commemorative magazine "Mickey Is Sixty!" from 1988.  This magazine has been crammed on my bookshelf for the past 33 years, which is why it's so wrinkled.

27 dollars for a VHS tape?

That's more like it.

Most of these movies are still unsung, even in the Disney Plus era. Ichabod Crane and Mr. Toad is more boring than you remember, Three Caballeros still slaps.

Gen Z would 100% wear these clothes today.

More to follow!

Mickeys

Keith Haring Mickey Mice 

Who has just three fingers and a thumb? THIS GUY

Only true 80's kids will remember the Golden Books "How To Draw" series:

Mickey Mouse and Friends and the DC Superheroes book were a formative part of my elementary school years.

And apparently I'm not the only one with warm feelings towards these books;

Flickr user tOKkA has posted their own take on the drawing exercises contained therein.

Check it out!