Air Pirates

[Cord Wiljes]

John Crocker wrote:

> Also, I probably shouldn't ask, but I am not familiar with 
> "Air Pirate Funnies."  Can someone fill me in? (scans?)

Sorry, no scans because I fear being sued into the ground by lawyers of
a big media company I won't name. But here is a complete answer by David
Gerstein from some years ago
(http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/air-pirates.txt)

(...)
Another rip-off of the Disney characters is "Air Pirates
Funnies," an early-1970s Gottfredson parody by Dan O'Neill that has
Mickey, Minnie, Pegleg Pete, Sylvester Shyster and others doing
various illegal things.  This may have been intended as an homage of
sorts, but brought only a lawsuit... and IMHO it was so tasteless
(even for a satire) that I can see why Disney took offense.  And while
it may have been intended as an homage to Gottfredson, I can only
wonder what he thought of it.
(...)

I might add that in addition to the "various illegal things" things
David mentions, Mickey and Minnie do some private things which are not
exactly illegal but are not normally done by Disney characters - or at
least not in public ;-)

Cord
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