Mickey Mouse

TV: Eric Martsolf shows off his Booster Gold duds, which fans can see in action on April 22 episode of Smallville. Whuzah?: Robin Williams is going to play the ghost of a tiger in an upcoming Broadway show Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, the plot of which sounds suspiciously similar to Brian K...

Today's "Comics Reprint Revolution" panel at Comic-Con provided some pretty exciting news, as Gary Groth of Fantagraphics Books announced that the publisher will be reprinting a complete collection of Floyd Gottfredson's classic Mickey Mouse strips beginning in May of 2011...

Mainstream culture had some very different ideas about drugs at different points in history; cocaine was once a popular over-the-counter drug prescribed for everything from shyness to toothaches until 1914, while amphetamines -- or "pep" as they were sometimes called -- were recommended for depression and weight loss, and sold over the counter until 1971...

Thanks to Boing Boing, I recently learned about the very real 1979 album "Mickey Mouse Disco," an odd artifact starring the popular cartoon and comics mouse that was released by Disneyland Records during the tail-end of the disco era. The album included both Disney verions of popular disco songs, and disco versions of popular Disney songs, which means that you get songs like "Macho

It's often been said that great art comes from great tragedy. It's another one of those phrases about art that has been repeated by the elbow-patched and goateed so often that it's almost become a platitude, as empty of meaning as the patently untrue "art imitates life...

Imagine an alternate timeline where Walt Disney's most beloved rodent took to the skies to invade Japan. He'd ride bats, right? And command an army of snakes? No? Well, the Imperialist Japanese government of the early 1940s must have thought so, otherwise it's hard to explain this propaganda piece demonizing Western culture and influence for young audiences...

Yesterday's announcement that Disney will purchase Marvel Comics for a handsome sum of $4 billion took everyone by surprise, flooring fans and inspiring chatter across the Internet. But it shouldn't have been a surprise - not if you're a regular viewer of the conspiracy-laden "Marvel Super Heroes: What The--...