The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against The Underground
Levin, Bob
Sold by Weird Books, Napa, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since August 23, 2016
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSold by Weird Books, Napa, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since August 23, 2016
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketVery Good text, minor to light reading wear to text and dust jacket. US orders shipped via US Mail. International orders shipped via DHL. Additional postage may be required on oversize books and sets. NO prison orders.
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They fought the Mouse and the Mouse (eventually) won,but it was a battle that left everyone bloodied...
During a time of unprecedented political, social, and cultural upheaval in U.S. history, one of the fiercest battles was ignited by a comic book. In 1963, the San Francisco Chronicle made 21-year-old Dan O'Neill the youngest syndicated cartoonist in American newspaper history. As O'Neill delved deeper into the emerging counterculture, his strip, Odd Bodkins, became stranger and stranger and more and more provocative, until the papers in the syndicate dropped it and the Chronicle let him go. The lesson that O'Neill drew from this was that what America most needed was the destruction of Walt Disney. O'Neill assembled a band of rogue cartoonists called the Air Pirates (after a group of villains who had bedeviled Mickey Mouse in comic books and cartoons). They lived communally in a San Francisco warehouse owned by Francis Ford Coppola and put out a comic book, Air Pirates Funnies, that featured Disney characters participating in very un-Disneylike behavior, provoking a mammoth lawsuit for copyright and trademark infringements and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Disney was represented by one of San Francisco's top corporate law firms and the Pirates by the cream of the counterculture bar. The lawsuit raged for 10 years, from the trial court to the US Supreme Court and back again."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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