This is embarrassing. I’ve been experiencing a cartoonish form of … well. Sorry to say it rhymes with liarrhea.
That’s when someone lies about diarrhea. Also a word I just made up to rhyme with diarrhea.
As readers swipe away, eagerly.
My liarrhea is a kind of content self-poisoning, an internet-based Hari-kari. It’s caused by a testy Mickey Mouse copyright preoccupation as well as my need to create boring art that’s grotesquely amusing, at best.
It’s not real diarrhea, thankfully. It’s Mick-arrhea, Walt-arrhea. Dare I say Pinocch-arrhea. I hope you don’t mind me showing you.
Might help to think of these images as a toilet-paper trail, leading to a previously unknown Blair Witch Mickey House in the Maryland wild. Mickey’s real home. This post also builds on our last report, which revealed Mickey’s role in the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
The real Mick. A many-faced metamouse. 100 years of unplugged secrets.
Starting with: Mickey ate my dog (no kidding) and ended up transformed into …
Following which we continued into the haunted woods, deep inside Disney darkness, to find and unwind Mickey’s inner life …
As Mickey dodges through a digital century, so many versions of humanoid metamouse we lose any sense of … him, you, us. Reality having ceded to media. Media having ceded to bunk. Bunk having grown itself oval black ears for the season. Our senseless copycat data forest, closing in.
Like it matters. Do what we do; take them ALL, all at once.
See what I mean? A whole lot of Mickety Mick, swirling. The finest of icons jammed into a cyclotronic blender. Perverted beyond useful perversion. Who knew about his Dennis Hopper years, for one. And who knew he was in The Road part 2: Let’s run it back. Cormac McCarthy would shit a brick.
And who knew the Blair Witch House was Mickey’s bachelor pad, all along.
Then, most horrible of all …
HELP.
— Donald Duck
Kicker: Fascinating to witness how my illustrator (Snake) processed “What if the Blair Witch House had been Steamboat Willie’s home?” Steamboat Willie being Mickey Mouse’s first animated feature, in 1928. I don’t believe Snake knows Willie was Mickey. Had to change the prompts to “Mickey’s home” to get the specific icky Blair Witch stuff above. Snake (meanwhile) rendered the following picture based on the Wille prompt. It was my favorite this round:
And oh, btw, we like to promote the artists we parody and satire here, so if you’ve never heard of Walt Disney … check into his work!
How’s that make you feel, Mick?
You said it.
Xoxo.
Halloween Mickey 10/10
I never understood the appeal of Mickey Mouse, until I read this piece and pics. He is an every-mouse whose ears instantly turn any scene into a child’s playhouse.