Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. 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: Flenniken emulated Clare Briggs'' family comic strips in her Trots and Bonnie comics, London''s strip Dirty Duck paid homage to the styles of E.C. Segar''s Thimble Theater and George Herriman''s Krazy Kat, Richards'' Dopin'' Dan was similar to Mort Walker''s Beetle Bailey and Gary Hallgren had a great interest in Cliff Sterett''s "Polly and Her Pals". 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.