Mickey Mouse made his public debut in the cartoon Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928 -81 years ago! The character appeared in Plane Crazy a few months earlier, but the Walt Disney Company doesn’t count that because it was a silent film. Link
Crispin
The late, great George Carlin had a nice rant about people celebrating Mickey Mouse’s ‘birthday’. Of course its not able to be printed here in a family blog, but dear old George suggests a violent, and fitting end to Senior Mouse.
He does sum it up nicely, “Mickey Mouse- no wonder no one takes our country seriously, we waste valuable news time informing our citizens of the age of an imaginary rodent!”
Thank you George for putting this in its proper perspective.
ByrdBrain
Valuable News Time? There’s another imaginary thing. Anything noteworthy on the evening news is hashed out in the first five minutes and the rest is fluff.
Church
And the little bastard has been the standard-bearer for the theft of the public domain ever since.
J Cubed
Stupid Mickey. Has the character been used for anything but a oversaturated logo for the past 50 years? Oh right, some crappy video games. I can’t wait until we stop punting copyright expiration and I can legally create Micky snuff media.
pwscott
A movie that paved the way for our rodent overlord. Thanks for buckling Marvel. 
Johnny Cat
Yes pw, and don’t forget Fox Animation Studios. Titan AE was a good launch movie for them, but Eisner swatted its debut down by re-releasing Dinosaur. That’s business, and shrewd tactics. But it’s not really what Walt had in mind, IMHO.
atanguay
Thanks J Cubed…I was thinking the exact same thing.
At least when you see all the items about Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes, you got something out of the deal. Tons and tons of classic, hilarious cartoons. My brothers and I would watch for hours every Saturday morning, it was great.
I’ve been more entertained by the animated Colonel Sanders than I have been by corporate logo Mickey Mouse.
Skipweasel
Tom and Jerry (mostly the older ones) knock any Disney rodent into a cocked hat.
Petey-Poo
Steamboat Willie was the first sync sound cartoon for Mickey. His first cartoon was Plane Crazy five months earlier.
Skipweasel
B.M. – you’re not good and this anagram lark, are you?
Disney World = End Drowsily = Ends Rowdily = Worn, Sly, Died. = Oddly new, Sir = Wendy is Lord, but not Asshole Mecca.
ted
I’m just surprised they got away with him fondling a pig’s teats.
Mickey Mouse cartoons could never hold a candle to Bugs Bunny.
Rich T
There is a good Mickey, and that’s Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip from the ’30s. Look it up- fantastic!
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