Disney parodies

Ola Martinsson (AS/EAB) ola.martinsson at ericsson.com
Fri Oct 7 15:46:00 CEST 2005


How is it in your respective countries when it comes to Disney parodies ?

I know of the Air Pirates in the US but other wise ?

Here is a link to Air Pirates that I found by the way

http://img151.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=airpirates1013nw.jpg
http://img279.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=airpirates2011ow.jpg
 
Elitserien was a Swedish comic book with was only released in one issue 
in 1985. It contained a number of Donald Duck parodies (Kalle Anka 
(Donald Duck) is Sweden's most popular comic book), among them 
one where it was revealed that Daisy Duck was the mistress of Uncle 
Scrooge and that Huey, Louie and Dewey where their illegitimate 
lovechildren. On the cover, you could see Donald being fired upon by the 
East German border patrol. The publisher was sued by Disney and no more 
issues of this magazine was ever released.

Then there was Arne Anka (Arne Duck). This was published as weekly or maybe monthly (I dont remember) one-page gags. Arne was a left-wing satirical comic about society. And really not at all connected to Donald Duck.
Nevertheless Disney objected to it. 
So then there was a strip where a huge crate labeled Disney was dropped on Arne as he was walking at the harbour docks. So he seemed to be splattered beneath it. But there was a trap door in the ground were Arne was taken through an underground passage to a room. There they performed plastic surgery on him and put on a pointy birds beek instead of the duck beek and changed the name to Arne X.
This was ok for Disney.
But after some months Arne did go in to the store Buttericks in Stockholm and purchased a fake strap-on duck beak and once again looked exactly as before.
Now Disney gave up.
After some time the old name was reused again.

For those of you that would like to see more of this really funny comic check out this link

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~mosh/arne_eng.html

It would be fun to hear your comments on this comic. I suspect that the majority of you can't understand Swedish but I can try to translate some of it if you like.
I hope this citation below doesn't offend anyone but it's probably one of the best known citations from Arne Anka.

 "To think before you talk is like wiping your ass before you shit"

Ola in sunny Stockholm +16 and a wonderful autumn this far.





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