Letter from the Editor
Welcome to The Mickey Annual 2021 from our last two years. We set out to create an alternative to the rather corporate, stale and pompous creative industry mags already out there through a heady mix of in-depth industry piss-taking and original funny stuff that we think will make you laugh. Our vision is to create a self-conscious, nerdy anti-establishment creative industry magazine with values - and a strong progressive & cynical voice. From next year The Mickey will be an independent quarterly available in print and digital.
We always loved the Fun Day Times, the kid’s supplement that came with The Sunday Times. Made us feel grown-up and clever. Unfortunately, we are all grown up now, the Funday Times is no more, and The Sunday Times has become a rather dumb kid’s newspaper. But from the immature ashes of a kid’s supplement rises The Mickey, a light-hearted look at our Creative Industries and the characters that inhabit it.
Taking ourselves too seriously should be a crime, so we do our best to take the piss of the sometimes stupid shit that we come up with in our day jobs. The BULLSHIT DEFCON is at level 4, an all-time high, and we all need to do our bit to help bring it down to a safe level by partaking in the kind of activities that call out the bullshit artists. Life’s too short for bullshit, so let’s work together to drive it back up the arses of the bullshitters and keep it up there for good. We include games and exercises to help you de-bullshit your life.
Enjoy the read.
Cheers
Justin Small
Justin Small
Editor
Justin is founder of the FSC. He wants to make the creative agency more useful in the real world by reconfiguring it into a cultural platform for change. It will take a while.
Cosmo Soave-Smith
Lead Creative
Cosmo is an integrated creative copywriter and 1997-1998 McVities Thumb-War Champion (Bristol & South-West).
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