Monday Madness: The Forgotten Inspiration for Disney's FROZEN...Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"

Disney has a long history of adapting classic fairy tales...

...but none went further away from the source material than "Frozen".

Yes, it's been a commercial phenomenon, but, if you're looking for the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale...this ain't it!

If you want to see an extremely-faithful version of the classic tale...

...click HERE, and "Let It Go, Let It Go, Let It Go!"

Welcome to the Public Domain, Mickey Mouse!

Over half a century after Disney sued (and beat) for copyright infringement the "Air Pirates" artistic collective...

Fund-raising poster from the early 1970s

...their best-known character, Mickey Mouse, had finally entered the public domain, joining Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, Dracula, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, and many others about whom new stories (unauthorized by the original copyright owner) may be created.

Of course, the new material must be limited to using only the elements in the now-public domain material.
Note: this includes already-PD material such as most (but not all) of the 1930s Mickey Mouse newspaper strip...which fell into PD because it wasn't renewed on-time under the law as it existed then!
But, year by year, as more Mouse becomes available, more elements can work their way into these new tales.

It's gonna be interesting!

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Friday Fun HICKORY "Reel Life"

With Ron DeSantis' war on Disney now costing Florida over a billion (with a B") dollars...

...in business development and taxes, let's look at how ReichWing rural Repugs like his followers see the media in this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Hickory #6 (1949)!

Illustrated (and probably written) by Harry Sahle, this comic series began in the anthology All-Humor Comics, then spun-off into it's own, short-lived, title when All-Humor was cancelled.

In 1948-49, superheroes were all but kaput.

Comics were experimenting with every genre imaginable to see what would sell.

Li'l Abner was a major success in newspapers and had already spawned a radio series and feature film!

Strips like Looie Lazybones had long been a part of anthology titles, and series like Ozark Ike, and Babe had earned their own titles, though it was probably due more to their emphasis on the characters' involvement in sports than their rural origins.

Hickory, the comic, only lasted six issues.

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What Does Ron (the Con) DeSantis Fear Above All Else?

The coming of...
Marvel Mouse!
(Mighty Mouse was already trademarked)

Jack "King" Kirby was indeed a visionary!
This was done, tongue-in-cheek, for a book published in 1991 called The Art of Mickey Mouse edited by Craig Yoe, but seems extremely prophetic now!
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Repug Ronnie DeSantis Hilariously Outmaneuvered by Disney!

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May the Fourth Be With You! 40 Years Ago...Star Wars Met Disney...sort of...

Long before Disney bought LucasFilm...

...they took a shot at doing a Star Wars-style property!

Before the Disney Channel and Radio Disney, the marketers at The House of Mouse would occasionally try to tie-in with popular trends.

Halyx, a pop-rock band that performed at TomorrowLand in the early 1980s was one such attempt.

And, being Disney, it was no half-baked, quickie tie-in, but an example of the Imagineering crew at its' best.

You can read about the creation and implementation of the project (by one of the participants no less) HERE and HERE.

Here's the band performing (audio with still photos)...

Too bad they don't even make a cameo in TomorrowLand...

The Inspiration for Disney's "Frozen"...Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"

Disney has a long history of adapting classic fairy tales...

...but none went further away from the source material than "Frozen".

Yes, it's been a commercial phenomenon, but, if you're looking for the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale...this ain't it!

If you want to see an extremely-faithful version of the classic tale...

...click HERE, and "Let It Go, Let It Go, Let It Go!"

Holiday Reading Room: SNOW QUEEN "About the Mirror and Its Pieces" and "A Little Boy and a Little Girl"

With the sequel film to Frozen opening tonite...

...we're re-presenting the classic (and extremely-different fairy tale the flick is based upon!
In fact, it's probably the most-altered of all the Disney flicks based upon old-time fairy tales!

Next Thursday:

The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Knew Magic

Written by Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by Lea Bing, this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #9 (1943) is the only comic book adaptation of the Hand Christian Andersen fairy tale!
(The currently-available graphic novel is an adaptation of the movie, not the original story.)

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TomorrowLand...the Way It Was!

Here's some kool posters from the early days of Disneyland's TomorrowLand...

...giving you a taste of the superb then-futuristic graphic sensibility that dominated the theme park.

The future was fantastic back then...

It's the same "feel" they're going for in the new flick!

Reading Room DONALD DUCK IN DISNEYLAND "TomorrowLand" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen..

...the Disney cartoon characters are given total access to Disneyland the day before it officially opens.

Splitting up to visit the various sections, Mickey Mouse and his nephews Morty and Ferdie go to TomorrowLand and meet Gyro Gearloose, who rigs the Rocket to the Moon flight simulator to actually work!

On the Moon, they run into the villainous Black Pete who stole Gearloose's spare space-travel device...

Yes, it's the "It was all a dream!" plotline!

Written by Carl Fallberg, penciled by Tony Strobl, inked by John Liggera (all of whom had extensive experience working on Disney characters), this section of the 100-page 25 cent comic Donald Duck in Disneyland is a classic example of Disney's knack for cross-media marketing for promotional purposes.
In fact, it was so effective that, when DisneyWorld opened in Florida in 1971, most of this issue (including this chapter) was reused in Walt Disney Comics Digest #32 (1971) as promotion for DisneyWorld along with new material about the elements of the theme park that differed from Disneyland!

Note: the various Disney characters did not appear in the actual TomorrowLand theme park.

They're just used here to introduce Disney-oriented kids to the concepts promoted by the exhibits.

TomorrowLand the Movie

opens Friday!