You can’t summarize the webcomic Mr. Boop better than its first panel, which emerged out of what felt like the raging id of the internet on February 28, 2020. “My wife Betty Boop is really hot ...

Today, Betty Boop is an immediately recognizable cultural ... In Disney’s “Plane Crazy” (1928), Mickey Mouse tries to trick Minnie into kissing him aboard their airplane.

The Betty Boop cartoons were not just aimed at kids ... Where Disney was representational, Fleischer was wild, surreal. Mickey Mouse was the 1930s' most popular star, eclipsing Garbo and Gable.

Like most kids, you probably grew up watching all the standard cartoon characters—Mickey, Tweety, and Betty Boop. But had different ... Disney later added a “Mortimer Mouse” to the lineup ...