Homages to Non-Disney comics in Disney comics

[Lars Jensen]

Frank Bubacz wrote:

> Lars Jensen's homage to Tintin as well as the dogs in the Taliaferro
> Sunday page that was talked about here recently (all of them could be
> identified btw) make me curious if there are other homages to
> non-Disney comic heroes in Disney comics. I suppose there aren't many?

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is "The Yeti" (D 93513). When
the story was sent off to Vicar, he was also given a picture of the Yeti
from "Tintin in Tibet" to give him a feeling for, how the writers wanted
the creature to look. But I suppose this wasn't a full-fledged case of
an homage -- more of Hergé's character design of the Yeti serving as
visual inspiration. Although I don't know how much Vicar looked at
Hergé's drawing.

On the other hand, there is of course the cavewoman Oona, whose name is
partly an homage to Alley Oop's girlfriend Ooola. But then again, Oona
was conceived of without any thought of Ooola until the character had to
be named -- only the name links the two -- so that's not really a
full-fledged homage, either.

Anybody else have any ideas?

Lars