Dan O'Neill was born on April 21,1942 and is an American underground cartoonist, creator of the syndicated comic strip Odd Bodkins and founder of the underground comics collective the Air Pirates.
12 Facts About Dan O'Neill
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Odd Bodkins began its run in 1964 in the San Francisco Chronicle when Dan O'Neill was 21 years old.
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Dan O'Neill decided on an odd tactic to regain control of his strip: he would engage in copyright infringement, which he reasoned would force the paper to surrender the strip's copyright back to him for fear of being sued.
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Dan O'Neill worked 28 Walt Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse and Pluto, into the strip.
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Dan O'Neill decided to become an underground comic book mogul and gathered other young artists into a collective called the Air Pirates, whose members included Bobby London, Gary Hallgren, Shary Flenniken and Ted Richards.
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Dan O'Neill took the lead in fighting the suit, promoting it as a free-speech case in his "Mouse Liberation Front" campaign.
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Dan O'Neill later drew a short-lived, full color strip for the National Lampoon about the adventures of the Bat-winged Hamburger Snatcher, and returned to the Chronicle with a weekly strip, titled simply Dan O'Neill, which ran from 1980 to 1985.
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The final year of Dan O'Neill was reprinted in Comics Revue.
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Dan O'Neill was one of twenty-two artists and writers featured in the documentary Comic Book Confidential.
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Dan O'Neill was interviewed while playing pool next to two scantily clad women.
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Dan O'Neill stated that he made fun of Disney in large part because they were the worst at using lawsuits to stifle parodies, spoofs, and other fair use commentaries.
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Dan O'Neill currently lives in Nevada City, California, where he continues to draw Odd Bodkins and is a director in the Original Sixteen to One gold mine.