This and That and Missing the Real Mickey:

Just finished grading the first be project for my History of Animation class (most got it some didn`t) and updating the rules for the ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival. http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/aef/rules.html

This coming Saturday in the DreamWorks pre-Oscar party. One of my all time favorite events of the year and not just because the food is so good. Thank you Jeffery for inviting me year after year. You really know how to through a party.

My last post was about the all encompassing nature of the Disney presence in our culture. Here`s another example:



My next class at Laguna will be dealing with Mickey before he was an icon. I will be showing The Mad Doctor and Mickey's Orphans and a lot of other early Mickey Mouse cartoons from before he because too sweet to have an edge.

There is a reason that Mickey is the star he is but I just wish he could still be the way he was before he became the corporate spokestoon. He use to really kick butt.


The Mad Doctor, 1933 one of my all time Mickey Favs