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Mickey Mart has announced the release of the Mickey Mart 2019 Goal Setting Calendar!

The calendar is available ABSOLUTELY FREE at all Mickey Mart locations on November 23, 2018, which is also Black Friday. Quantities at each location are limited so people interested in picking one up are encouraged to brook no delay!

Click HERE to find a Mickey Mart location near you!

The 28-page calendar focuses on well-established strategies for helping you achieve goals you may have thought were impossible. The calendar is loaded with helpful tips, inspirational quotes, and great stories, each illustrating a particular strategy. Each month, calendar users are encouraged to build on what they have accomplished in previous months.

There is plenty of room on every page for all your normal calendar needs, but there is also space to make set your own goals and track your progress in achieving them. You can follow along as characters from the sold-out Mickey the Moose comics work through their own goals in humorous and timely sequences.

The calendar begins by encouraging users to give up the idea of New Year’s Resolutions because statistics show over 90% of those which are created never work. Instead, users are encouraged to substitute goal setting strategies for resolutions. So important is this strategy that we refer to the calendar as “Your No Resolution Solution!”

One of the most important strategies for achieving your goals is to develop useful habits. Because the most important strategy for developing productive habits is to be consistent in doing them, the calendar encourages the user to develop these habits with small, daily steps. As smaller habits become more natural to perform, they start to expand into bigger, more useful ones. Each day of the calendar includes a space to mark off a successful day. Users are encouraged to “go for streaks!”

In January 2019, Calendar users will be able to Join “The Mickey the Moose Goal Masters Club” where they will be able to share their experiences and achievements with other users. They will also find addition tricks and hints, special “calendar only” deals and all sorts of other fun and useful stuff!

Don’t get left behind! Get your calendar NOW at any Mickey Mart location!

Coles Energy trucks deliver fuel to Mickey Mart and to businesses and families all over Northcentral Ohio. Coles Energy trucks signal their pride in keeping America moving with their new patriotic truck wraps.

To prepare for the Fall & Winter fuel season, Coles put together a short 30-second video showcasing some mighty fine roadwork. Follow Mickey Mart on Facebook to catch all our videos as we make them!

Milan, Ohio, best known for the invention of Thomas Edison, plays host every year to the nation’s premiere Melon Festival! As the hometown of Mickey Mart and the base of operation of the indomitable Mickey the Moose, participation in the 2018 festivities was a must do!

And a Moose must do what a Moose must do.

Rallying the troops, trucks, and talent to the Labor Day Sunday event, the gregarious Moose was greeted by throngs of onlookers. The best was saved for last as a Mickey Statue was towed by the Mighty Moose Van to lead a procession of Coles Energy trucks right through the middle of town!

Parade watchers were in awe and in spite of the sweltering 90-degree heat the parade and the Melan Festival appeared to be a big hit! This will be a tough act to follow but wait until next year.

Mickey Mart will be sponsoring several “How to Create Your Own Comics” youth workshops at libraries around Northcentral Ohio in 2018. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to catch announcements of dates and locations!

We’re excited about the release of the Amazing Adventures of Mickey the Moose #4 and to celebrate we thought we’d give you a little peek at how we make a Mickey the Moose Comic!

We want to make our comics interesting and fun, so we spend a good deal of time coming up with ideas. That’s the fun part, making up the story. It can be anything you want it to be.

The famous Cleveland comic creator, Harvey Pekar, often wrote about things he observed on a regular day. You can also write about Giant Robot Moose (that is plural, btw). Your comic, your call.

Just like Mickey and his friends, we work as a team to create a comic. Many creators work by themselves but most often, one person writes and another person draws. If you are a great writer, find a friend who’s a good artist (or vice versa) and get started!

Here’s an inside look at the steps we take to bring you Mickey the Moose Comics! There are as many ways to do this as there are comics. This is our way:

First, We Organize Our Layout and Ideas:

Most MM comics are 20 pages long. We start off with a rough overview of how we want all the pages laid out. Dirk does all of the writing and layout work. This is also a good way to get an idea of how your story is developing and how it is paced.

Dirk follows this up with a (very) rough sketch of what everybody is saying or doing on an individual page. As you can see, Dirk can’t draw flies in the summer, so it’s nice to have a good artist like Kelly around. This is page 10 from Mickey the Moose Comics #3.

Next, Writing the Script!

If you are working with another person, you have to make sure you communicate your ideas clearly. Some artists like lots of detail. Others not so much. It’s very important to write your script to the strength of your artist.

Draw the Page!

The artist uses the script to draw his own rough sketches before completing all the pencils and inks.

Add Colors!

We use Adobe Photoshop to create a color layer. Here’s what it looks like without the inked background!

Voila! The Finished Page!