Ub Iwerks published the first Color-Sound cartoon 84 years ago today, starring Flip the Frog. But chances are, you’re much more likely to know him for his other cartoon creation: Mickey Mouse.

Walt Disney gets sole credit for history's most famous mouse, but there's more to the ... cartoons featuring new creations, including Flip the Frog. After Walt got wind of Iwerks’ new character ...

Imagine if Mickey Mouse had been invented on the internet ... The real trouble came when that private culture—which had absorbed Pepe the Frog into its vocabulary of context-free memes ...

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. Mickey Mouse, the iconic mascot of the Walt Disney Company (and famed monarch ...