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Piracy Comics is a one-shot title from 1970, in which a group of five underground cartoonists appropriated well-known characters for their own satirical counterculture purposes. Dave O'Sullivan drew Mickey Mouse as a violent revolutionary, Gordon Haskell drew Popeye as a dope peddler, Sharon Fargo drew Little Orphan Annie as a pot-smoking college dropout, and Theodor Rowland drew Beetle Bailey as a Maoist fifth column cadre in the US army.
Most curious is the contribution from Robert Lancaster, who took on the obscure characters Kur & Mondy, who had appeared only in a mostly forgotten 1954 comic book. Where the other Piracy cartoonists paid heed only to the visual likeness of the characters they used, Lancaster kept intact the original Kur & Mondy comic's premise of Mondy accidentally harming Kur. Due to this faithfulness, Lancaster was later hired to draw the daily newspaper strip Barney Google & Snuffy Yahoo.
The Piracy cartoonists, with the exception of Lancaster, were sued for copyright infringement, and while the case ended with an out-of-court settlement, all unsold copies of Piracy Comics were impounded and destroyed in 1971, making this book one of the most valuable comic collectibles today.
- Morris Thorn, The Universal Encyclopedia of Comics, 1989
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Most curious is the contribution from Robert Lancaster, who took on the obscure characters Kur & Mondy, who had appeared only in a mostly forgotten 1954 comic book. Where the other Piracy cartoonists paid heed only to the visual likeness of the characters they used, Lancaster kept intact the original Kur & Mondy comic's premise of Mondy accidentally harming Kur. Due to this faithfulness, Lancaster was later hired to draw the daily newspaper strip Barney Google & Snuffy Yahoo.
The Piracy cartoonists, with the exception of Lancaster, were sued for copyright infringement, and while the case ended with an out-of-court settlement, all unsold copies of Piracy Comics were impounded and destroyed in 1971, making this book one of the most valuable comic collectibles today.
- Morris Thorn, The Universal Encyclopedia of Comics, 1989
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kur-kur<<< PREV | FIRST | NEXT >>>
Category All / Comics
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File Size 160.8 kB
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