What do you picture when you hear “Mickey Mouse” – Disneyland? Happiness? Childish innocence? Maybe the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse TV show? Any way you think of Disney’s character, you most likely aren’t thinking of Mickey as a character hooked on drugs and alcohol, participating in “illicit” behaviors such as sex
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Who is copyright law meant to protect? If you were to look at Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution, you would presume that copyright law protects the work of “authors and inventors,” however, in practice it is easy to see that this is not the truth.
“Comic strips have historically been full of ugly stereotypes, the hallmark of writers too lazy to honestly observe the world.” Bill Watterson wrote this in his tenth-anniversary book of Calvin and Hobbes. When I first read this quote, I was surprised by how insightful it was, especially considering our current
Joan Cornella’s cartoons are not afraid to offend. Joan Cornella is a massively popular Spanish cartoonist infamous for themes of political and social criticism in his simplistic cartoon drawings. To a new viewer, his artworks seem jovial and harmless at first. However, as you begin to look closely into the
American comic book artist J. Scott Campbell drew Disney princesses ridiculously sexy edition Titled ‘Fairytale Fantasies.’ They are extremely well done, but they are extremely inappropriate as well. Drawing kids favorite childhood characters R-rated is deviant. Portraying Disney princess with sexy lingerie is completely wrong because the main targeted audience
You probably have never seen anything like the work of Robert Crumb before. What lives inside his mind is sexual, racist, disturbing, sometimes pornographic, and in every instance, odd. Much of his work tells stories of incest, necrophilia, assault, and pure mayhem. In the 1994 documentary “Crumb,” we uncover every
Japan has already been mentioned in class for having little to none violent crime, with the exception of sexual abuse of minors. Japan has turned heads before for it’s unabashed standards of sexuality and to Westerners, catering to strange fetishes in the form of vending machines of used panties, sexual
From 1955 to 1975, South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a state governing the southern half of Vietnam. After World War II, the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, proclaimed the establishment of Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi. In response to the rise of power of
Two issues of the underground comic book “Air Pirates Funnies” were published in 1971, with very exacting imitations of trademarked and copyrighted Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse. The stories portrayed the characters engaged in very un-Disney activities, but were produced under the protection of parody and fair use. After one