When Walt Disney and Ib Iwerks created Mickey Mouse, there's no way they could have known just what they had done. And now, almost 100 years later, Mickey has become an icon. He's gone through many changes in that time, but none was perhaps quite as radical as the one that led to the current series of Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts.
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, the series of animated shorts that started to run 12 years ago was a pretty radical take on the classic Disney character considering the way Mickey had been portrayed in the decades prior. But it turns out there wasn’t a lot of pushback to the new take on the mouse, thanks to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
