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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 (then Walt Disney Productions). Founded by Dan O'Neill, the group also included Shary Flenniken, Bobby London, Gary Hallgren, and Ted Richards. The collective shared a common interest in the styles of past masters of the comic strip, and in creating their stories for the collective each set out to imitate the style of an old-time cartoonist: Flenniken emulated Clare Briggs and H. T. Webster in her ''Trots and Bonnie'' comics, London's strip ''Dirty Duck'' paid homage to the style of George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Richards' ''Dopin' Dan'' was supposed to be influenced by Bud Fisher but showed more similarity to Mort Walker's ''Beetle Bailey'', and Gary Hallgren drew a strip called ''Pollyanna Pals'' in the style of Cliff Sterrett's ''Polly and Her Pals''. The original Air Pirates were a gang of Mickey Mouse antagonists of the 1930s; O'Neill imagined Mickey Mouse to be a symbol of conformist hypocrisy in American culture, and therefore a ripe target for satire. The first issue of ''Air Pirates Funnies'' was dated July 1971, and the second issue dated August. Both were published under the Hell Comics imprint, and were distributed through Ron Turner's Last Gasp publishing company. Both issues are considered highly collectible today. The lead stories in both issues, created by O'Neill, Bobby London and Hallgren, focused on Walt Disney characters, most notably from Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, with the Disney characters engaging in adult behaviors such as sex and drug consumption. O'Neill insisted it would dilute the parody to change the names of the characters, so his adventurous mouse character was called "Mickey". Ted Richards took on the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs opening up a second wave of parody attacking Disney's use of contemporary American and European folklore. In doing so, they infringed Disney's copyrights by using characters he created without permission. ==Origins== The original nucleus of the ''Air Pirates'' collective began to form when Bobby London met Ted Richards at the office of the ''Berkeley Tribe'', an underground newspaper where both were staff cartoonists. London later drew a highly fictionalized account of their experiences at the ''Tribe'' in his story "Why Bobby Seale is Not Black" in ''Merton of the Movement''. In 1970 they attended the Sky River Rock Festival near Portland, Oregon and met Shary Flenniken and Dan O'Neill at the media booth, where Flenniken was producing a daily Sky River newsletter on a mimeograph machine. Before the festival was over the four of them produced a 4-page tabloid comic, ''Sky River Funnies'', mostly drawn by London. After the festival Flenniken and Richards went to Seattle, where Flenniken was doing graphics for the Seattle Liberation Front's brief-lived underground newspaper, ''Sabot''. London went back with O'Neill, who had a studio and a syndicated strip in San Francisco, and started working with him, contributing a "basement" strip to O'Neill's syndicated ''Odd Bodkins''. In early 1971 they invited Flenniken and Richards, along with Gary Hallgren, a Seattle cartoonist who had met O'Neill at the festival, to San Francisco to form the Air Pirates collective. After the Pirates were established, Willy Murphy, Larry Todd and Gary King started hanging around the collective and contributing to their projects, missing the original ''Air Pirates Funnies'' but appearing in later Air Pirates comics like ''Merton of the Movement'' and ''Left Field Funnies''. Along with these projects the Pirates also released ''Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories'', a Bobby London ''Dirty Duck'' collection, and a ''Dopin' Dan'' book with side stories by other members of the collective. A Flenniken ''Trots and Bonnie'' comic was announced, but never released. Most of these comics were distributed through Last Gasp, some with a "Cocoanut Comics" logo on the cover. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Air Pirates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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