Tanglefoot is Mickey Mouse’s horse, who was first seen in the “Mickey Mouse and his Horse Tanglefoot” storyline in the Mickey Mouse daily comic strip, which ran from June 12 to October 7, 1933. Floyd Gottfredson was the main artist of the newspaper comics at that time.

What in the world is a Hidden Mickey? It’s an image of Mickey Mouse that is designed by Disney’s Imagineers and artists to blend into its surroundings. The most common Hidden Mickey is an outline of Mickey’s head formed by three intersecting circles (the three-circle or classic Hidden Mickey). However, the hidden image may be a side profile of Mickey’s face, or his full body, or just his shoes or handprints.

The hand drawn image and, more specifically, comics are nothing new to the Walt Disney Company. Yet, with all of this vast experience with the comic and comic strip forms, there have been only a scarce few comics to cross the boundary between animation and the Disney theme parks.

A look at the Mickey Mouse image planted into an Iowa cornfield.

Disney park guests may be used to hearing Mickey’s globally recognizable voice during stage shows, parades, and cartoons but guests at the Disneyland Resort this week were in for quite a surprise during some experimental meet and greet sessions.

Forever 21 is partnering with Disney Consumer Products to offer a new line of Minnie Mouse branded items in which Minnie gets a new look. Call it a makeover. And by "makeover," I mean "now looks like a person with a mouse head." The Disney Blog pointed out that the writing was (literally) on the wall for this, if you've seen the image of Minnie that's currently in.

The leaked blueprint image of the proposed Fantasyland upgrade plan shows a lot of changes coming to the park. In an attempt to make it a little easier to understand the scope of these changes, I have gone ahead and overlaid this image over a satellite image of Fantasyland from Google Earth.

A large estate lot of original animation and comic art, from the collection (and hand) of animation artist, William Weaver recently sold in an online auction for $8,150.
Between the 1940’s to 1960’s Bill Weaver worked for several production companies producing animated cartoons and comic strips. His career concluded at Walt Disney Productions.

Many can list Walt Disney’s accomplishments as easily as they might list items on a grocery list. Disney created Mickey Mouse. He produced the first full-length animated movie. His amusement park, Disneyland, became the first theme park. Disney formed the first multimedia corporation. Disney’s achievements are truly impressive, but more impressive still may be the impact that he and his company have made upon the world and world culture...