Urban Mickey

What was Disney thinking when they introduced their “Graphic Edge Collection” last fall?


Corporations that try to appropriate urban culture for profit simply end up looking out of touch and dishonest. They become to urban culture what wiggers are to the hip hop world.
Urban Mickey

Seriously?!? This is what someone in Disney’s consumer products thinks graffiti looks like? Researching what you’re recreating is apparently not part of the job description.
Urban Mickey

Believe it or not, somebody earned a paycheck to create this aesthetic monstrosity.
Urban Mickey

Someone at Disney momentarily lapsed into thinking they were a twenty-year-old hipster that designs shirts for Threadless competitions.
Urban Mickey

“Graphic Edge” is another way of saying “stiffly posed and poorly drawn character.”
Urban Mickey

Remember how well it worked out for Warner Bros. back in the Nineties?
Urban Warners

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Amid Amidi

Amid Amidi is Cartoon Brew's Publisher and Editor-at-large.

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