Homages to Non-Disney comics in Disney comics

Søren Krarup Olesen raptus at stofanet.dk
Thu Sep 11 17:35:34 CEST 2003


LARS:

> 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.

Are you sure about that, or is that where the "partly" comes in? I've
always thought that Oona was named after Stefan Printz-Påhlson's wife
Unn...after all they wrote the first story featuring Oona.

Søren



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