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	Air Pirates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Air Pirates were a group of cartoonists who created two issues of an underground comic called Air Pirates Funnies in 1971, leading to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company.
		The original Air Pirates were a gang of Mickey Mouse antagonists of the 1930s; O'Neill regarded Mickey Mouse as a symbol of conformist hypocrisy in American culture, and therefore a ripe target for satire.
		Accurately telling the story of Disney's lawsuit against the Air Pirates is difficult, due to the conflicting memories of the litigants; however, it is fair to say that all through the lawsuit, O'Neill was defiant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_Pirates (833 words)

	Dan O'Neill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dan O'Neill (born April 21, 1942) is an American underground cartoonist, creator of the syndicated comic strip Odd Bodkins and founder of the underground comics collective the Air Pirates.
		Their two-issue series Air Pirates Funnies included parodies of Mickey Mouse and other copyrighted characters, which led to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company.
		He and Richards were the last Air Pirates to settle with Disney after a long, highly publicized, and expensive legal battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_O'Neill (577 words)

	Jeet Heer, "Free Mickey"
		But to their fans, the Air Pirates were free-speech martyrs and innovative artists who were unfairly penalized simply because they worked in the popular but disdained medium of the comic book.
		By contrast, "Air Pirates Funnies" were impeccably drawn to imitate the warm and gangly style of the Mickey Mouse strips of the early 1930s (those strips were drawn by a cartoonist named Floyd Gottfredson, although always credited to Disney).
		While the lawyers for the Air Pirates compared their clients to satirists like Swift and Fielding, Disney's accused them of producing "obscene nonsense" designed "to degrade and disparage all that Disney has done." Disney was particularly upset at the fact that the Air Pirates were repeat offenders.
	www.jeetheer.com /comics/airpirates.htm (1829 words)

	The WeeklyPress@Philly1.Com -- Philadelphia native documents a truly "Mickey Mouse" litigation -- 12/03/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Air Pirates Funnies was similar to other Undergrounds in that it was somewhat crude and certainly lewd, but O'Neill and the other Pirates- Ted Richards, Shary Flenniken, Gary Hallgren, and Bobby London- had ulterior motives with their work.
		The Pirates, arguing that their work was parody intended for a different audience and that copying Mickey closely was necessary for the parody to work, lost every step of the way.
		Pirates grew out of a story on O'Neill: "I knew that they [the Air Pirates] were this wild and woolly bunch, even by the standards of the Underground." Realizing that here was a story potentially of interest to more than just a comic book audience, Levin seriously considered a book.
	www.philly1.com /story2120303.html (1307 words)

	Disney vs the Air Pirates
		In there defence the Air Pirates relied on the first amendment and the concept of “fair use” doctrine, which allows the right to freely reproduce limited amounts of copyrighted material in limited situations.
		The Pirates, showing a mixture of bravado, ignorance and plain stupidity proceeded to print "The Tortoise and the Hare" a comic which reprinted part of Air Pirates 2, as well as containing its own fair share of copyright infringements (incidentally the comic contains an O'Neill strip called "The Early Adventures of Roger Rabbit".
		The facts behind the Air Pirates case are difficult to sort out and are clouded by a combination of drug addled mental confusion, age, evasion, self promotion, self delusion and a certain bravado after the event.
	home.freeuk.com /moondog/air.htm (797 words)

	Archived Entry - 06/01/2004: "We must start our revolution at once!"
		The "Air Pirates" were originally villains featured in a 1933 series of strips titled "The Mail Pilot," reprinted in glorious color by Gladstone/Another Rainbow/Pantheon Books for Mickey Mouse's sixtieth anniversary, in 1989.
		The Air Pirates of 1970's vintage utilized far more confusing weapons that, often as not, missed their intended targets by a wide margin.
		We learn, for instance, that the original vision of the air pirates, to comment on, and revile Disney's cultural agenda with its own properties is worthwhile, and worth being protected.
	liheliso.com /buzz/archive/00000106.htm (1524 words)

	02/22/00: Disney and The Air Pirates
		Their notoriety rested on the two issues of the Air Pirates underground comic that caused the entire group (with the exception of Flenniken) to be sued by Walt Disney Productions for copyright infringement.
		The Air Pirates case subsequently dragged through the courts for years, becoming something of a cause celebre in the world of underground comics.
		Several years after the Air Pirates case was settled, Playboy axed their entire funnies section as a cost-cutting move, leaving Bobby London high and dry, since drawing Dirty Duck for Playboy was his sole source of income at the time.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/tiggermovie/63.html (2697 words)

	Reason: Disney's War Against the Counterculture: Why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Air Pirates crew moved into a kitchenless couple of rooms in San Francisco (later relocating to a former firehouse used by director Francis Ford Coppola for storage).
		Their two issues of Disney-parodying absurdity, Air Pirates Funnies, were published in editions of 15,000 to 20,000 copies in the summer of 1971.
		The complaint requested that Disney be awarded all of the Pirates’ profits, $5,000 for each copyright infringement, treble damages for the trademark infringement, punitive damages of $100,000 from each defendant, surrender of the offending books, and reimbursement of its attorneys’ fees.
	www.reason.com /0412/fe.bl.disneys.shtml (4380 words)

	Articles How Howard got his pants
		A group of underground cartoonists published a magazine called Air Pirates Funnies, in which they produced their own versions of Disney creations - an act that aroused the ire of the Disney organization.
		The case went to court; The Air Pirates - as the defendants were called - claimed parody, Disney claimed copyright infringements, trademarks infringements, unfair competition and trade disparagement.
		Though Disney won, to the tune of $190,000, they later withdrew damage claims in return for a promise that The Air Pirates would not do more such "parodies." Obviously, they hade made their point; they did not want to destroy anyone, but simply keep their own toes from being stepped on.
	members.tripod.com /Howard_the_duck/Howtheduckgothispants.htm (1869 words)

	WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The defendant organizations, The Air Pirates and Hell Comics, are also appellants.
		The individual defendants have participated in preparing and publishing two magazines of cartoons entitled "Air Pirates Funnies." n6 The characters in defendants' magazines bear a marked similarity to those of plaintiff.
		1397 (S.D.N.Y.1975)), that the "Air Pirates" were parodying life and society in addition to parodying the Disney characters.
	www.kencreech.com /air_pirates.htm (5105 words)

	Nom de guerre: Rivrdog: Sunday Funnies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		You could dream of being a mercenary with Terry and the Pirates or a judge or one of his staff with Judge Parker, which was a s-l-o-w strip, took months to develop the plot, not a good thing for a kid getting his first "world-view" from the funny papers.
		The dummies who put today's papers together don't realize that when we open the funny pages (after first discombobbling them from all the got-dam ad sections they so cleverly weave into them), we want to be transported to some sort of fantasy land, not some sort of classroom for Political Correctness 101.
		The Sunday Funnies used to be required reading for me..I read the funnies before the headlines and the commentary.
	rivrdog.typepad.com /rivrdog/2006/06/sunday_funnies.html (1103 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Air Necking" to "Airborne"
		The Pirates and the Mouse : Disney's War Against the Counterculture / Bob Levin.
		-- Summary: The Oakland-Tokio air race is still on for Skeeter and Tommy, because the navy commander is loaning him a pilot to re-board the Cherry Blossom.
		A passenger lectures a nervous Condorito about how safe air travel actually is, and Condorito thanks him for his words and returns to the cockpit to land the plane.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/arri/air_n.htm (3804 words)

	Rambles: Bob Levin, The Pirates & the Mouse: Disney's War Against the Counterculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Pirates & the Mouse is a hilarious and candid inside look at one of the longest-running copyright infringement wars of the 20th century -- likely to be known throughout history as thecopyright war of that century.
		It is the story of the Walt Disney Corp. and a group of college comic satirists, calling themselves the Air Pirates, and their war over Mickey Mouse and the American culture.
		It is absolutely absurd that a group of college students could engage such a large entity as Walt Disney, go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and back into the lower courts, and still manage to find loopholes that allow them to continue being the thorn in their opponent's side.
	www.rambles.net /levin_piratmous03.html (598 words)

	Battle for the image of Mickey Mouse
		The Air Pirates (who, besides O'Neill, included Shary Fleniken, Bobby London, Gary Hallgren and Ted Richards) put real effort into making their renditions of the Disney characters as near to the originals as possible.
		O'Neill felt the satire would cut closer to the bone that way, but it was also an expression of genuine affection for the craft of the anonymous artists whose pens had given the Disney characters their life over the years.
		Though the Air Pirates launched a broadside from the left against the right, the motive ran deeper than ideology.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/11/RVGSD42EAN1.DTL (636 words)

	Air Pirates On Line \| MetaFilter
		In the Air Pirates book, there's a Dirty Duck story where a girl goes to a Dead concert, but is caught by the cops as she tries to sneak in.
		Some of the Air Pirates went on to contribute to The National Lampoon.
		Shary Flenniken (who appeared in The Tortoise and the Hare, No. 1 and was married to Bobby "Dirty Duck" London) wrote and drew the excellent "Trots and Bonnie" strip.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/44073 (566 words)

	Dan O'Neill in GRAPHIC CLASSICS
		In 1970, at the height of the underground comix movement, O'Neill met four cartoonists who would form the core of his infamous comics collective, The Air Pirates: Ted Richards, Gary Hallgren, Bobby London and Shary Flenniken.
		The highly-publicized court case dragged out for nine years, eventually resulting in an injunction against the Pirates and a financial judgement that was never collected by Disney.
		The story of the Air Pirates' legal battle with Disney is recounted in the new book The Pirates and the Mouse by Bob Levin (2003, Fantagraphics).
	www.graphicclassics.com /pgs/oneill.htm (313 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Dirty Duck
		This has led to a popular but erroneous belief that Dirty was included in the famous lawsuit by which Disney sank the Air Pirates.
		Besides, the guys the suit was about, Mickey Mouse, Bucky Bug et al., appeared in Air Pirates under their own names (which was among the less defensible bones of contention).
		Dirty Duck was about as commercial a character as ever came out of the Air Pirates studio, at least if you exclude characters that already belonged to others.
	www.toonopedia.com /dirtyduk.htm (477 words)

	Chapter 8
		The “Air Pirates” comics, on the other hand, were underground comic books depicting Disney characters in bawdy or drug-related activities.
		The “Air Pirates” announced their intention to continue publishing their comics, so that they were an ongoing threat to Disney.
		Although not emphasized in the case, the “Air Pirates” comics not only “took” the Disney characters; some of the story lines and even frames were duplicated almost precisely.
	www.edwardsamuels.com /illustratedstory/isc8.htm (6801 words)

	The Hippie Years Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Air Pirates Funnies and Dan O'Neills Comics and Stories became not only underground successes, but underground legends because of the artist's ensuing legal problems with the Disney Company.
		For a more complete story on the Air Pirates, go to http://www.comic-art.com/intervws/londart.htm.
		Notes: Episode #1, The Tortoise and the Hare, reprinted from Air Pirates #2, which is now banned in Boston, Berkeley and the rest of continental Disneyland.
	www.ugcomix.info /history/mirrors/comix_2b.htm (324 words)

	Polite Dissent » Talk Like A Pirate Day 2005: comics, medicine, and medical comics
		Some comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) off the top of me head (to be updated as I think of more):
		Metrokitty (the “Feline Felon”) reminded me that there was a pirate as a suporting character in the Starman series (and in one of the Talking with David issues).
		The pirate in the 90s Starman was John Valor who called himself the Black Pirate and I think he was meant to be a revamped version of the Black Pirate from Action Comics.
	politedissent.com /archives/911 (411 words)

	Albert Morse -- Morse's Funnies 2, Pg 1
		A: While I was working on the Walt Disney v Air Pirates case, in 1972, Bobby London gave me the original of a cartoon he had drawn about me and which was published in a comic entitled Merton of the Movement.
		In the event that the lab conclusively states, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that these were not printed by photo offset printing in the 1970's, I will give you double your money back.
		To the best of my recollection, the first edition of Morse's Funnies was photo offset printed on one side.
	www.albertmorse.net /funnies (1063 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Pirates" to "Pirus"
		The album L'Île de l'Homme Morte is part of the Barbe-Rouge series, pitting pirate against pirate from Britain's shore to Tierra del Fuego.
		By contrast the pirate Laffite in the Cotton Kid album Charivari dans les Bayous is long dead and has left clues to the location of his treasure for the current generation to struggle over.
		The future has pirates as well, and in the first volume of Argon the Savage our heroes are beset by space pirates.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/prri/pirates.htm (5353 words)

	Agents of SHAFT! - Disney's War Against the Counterculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To conclude that the Air Pirates' motives were as commercial as, or even more commercial than Disney's or Madonna's is unfair.
		The Air Pirates themselves, and particularly O'Neill, may have stretched the limits somewhat more than most do, but these cartoons they wrote and drew nevertheless continue in the proud traditions of satire AND political commentary through cartoon parody.
		In my opinion, society in these United States has regressed a lot since the 1970's, a time when a story like the Air Pirates' story could get a lot more public attention, and was generally regarded as having a lot more relevance than similar stories might carry with the Public today.
	www.shaftagents.com /cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=comm;action=display;num=1109363144 (6401 words)

	ENG 466 Final Project
		In the early 1970s, a group of underground cartoonists nammed the "Air Pirates" put out a series of controversial comic book titles.
		These comic books were parodies of 1930s and 1940s Disney comic strips and starred Mickey Mouse and the rest of the Disney cadre in "adult" situations, such as smuggling dope and shooting at each other.
		Disney sued the Air Pirates for copyright infringement.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~mivillan/20.htm (548 words)

	Comic creator: Bobby London
		If the informal credo of the Air Pirates group was to emulate the early newspaper comic strips, then Bobby London was an ideal member.
		He was inspired by several masters of the medium, like E.C. Segar, Cliff Sterrett, Bud Fisher, Billy DeBeck and George Herriman.
		Besides 'Dirty Duck', he also contributed to 'Air Pirates' # 1 and 2, 'The Tortoise and the Hare', 'Left Field Funnies', 'Manhunt' # 1, 'San Francisco Comic Book' # 4 and his autobiographic 'Merton of the Movement'.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/l/london_bobby.htm (181 words)

	eBay - air pirates, Parts Accessories, Comics items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		air pirates funnies #1 comix 1972 comic bobby london
		PIRATES OF THE AIR - ANDY LANE SERIES 1ST ED 1929
		ZANZIBAR 1987 Dreadnok Pirate With AIR SKIFF and ACC
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=air+pirates&newu=1&krd=1 (429 words)

	Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc. - News
		San Franciscans who came to know and love this man in years gone by, realized, even then, that we had never before, and would never again, meet a character quite as mad, and quite as wonderful, as the cartoonist Dan O'Neill.
		Thus, in the dead of night, in a run-down warehouse south of Market, old Dan, and pals began to generate a series of new comic books which featured a clearly recognizable Mickey and Minnie Mouse conducting themselves much like Monica and her President in a decade still yet to come.
		In July of 1971, Air Pirates Funnies #1, which carried the actual front cover title "Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates Funnies" appeared under the counter in head shops and radical bookstores around the globe.
	www.origsix.com /news.asp?id=179 (637 words)

	Polite Dissent » Talk Like A Pirate Day!: comics, medicine, and medical comics
		Methinks it would be a good time to relax in the sun, chug some grog, and sing a few sea shanties.
		Tho’ he do be makin’ allowances for Talk Like a Pirate Day, and has a nifty portrait of one o’ me cousins on his site.
		Heck, that series even had a ghost pirate as one of the supporting characters.
	politedissent.com /archives/284 (355 words)

	village voice > books > Underground cartoonists versus humorless Disney lawyers. by R.C. Baker
		The Pirates had grown up loving Disney's artistry, but came to despise his corporation's watered-down folklore.
		Ted Rich- ards, one of these renegade Mouseketeers, resented Disney's "corporate seizure of the American narrative" and believed the Pirates were "helping the people regain access to their own stories." Reflecting back on the period, O'Neill says, "It was everybody's duty to smash the state.
		After a decade of injunctions and huge fines (uncollectible from the chronically broke O'Neill), the Pirates finally promised to cease and desist—that is, until the Air Pirates Special Pirate Edition, by the "Mouse Liberation Front," featuring an ulcer-ridden Mickey working the phones and sweating the grosses of Aladdin.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0413,baker,52202,10.html (788 words)

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