Hey all - fresh Arne Anka comics are available in English and can be shipped to all of Europe, the UK, and the US! Order from arneanka.org/produkt/arne-anka-all-these-wars-talk-about-ourselves-2/
@Salador642 ай бұрын
Hey you should check out the case of the ice cream shop in Paraguay that won against Disney and now has Mickey as their mascot
@edlundart2 ай бұрын
@@Salador64 Hi, a couple of people have mentioned this, and I'm taking a look at it! I may mention it in a future video.
@spadeespada94322 ай бұрын
Question from the slow section. What about Howard the Duck
@aglcomics2 ай бұрын
Are these available as pdf or kindle? Currently overseas and mobile for an extended period and would like to read Arne Anka.
@edlundart2 ай бұрын
@@aglcomics I'm not 100% sure, but I don't believe so, I think it's physical media only.
@MrMegaManFan3 ай бұрын
Any artist who can outsmart Disney is a hero in my eyes too.
@WilfredZeijpveld3 ай бұрын
super easy, can't claim copyright on nature... claiming a duck or a mouse is just as silly as claiming trees, only thing is, nobody dared to stand up to disney...
3 ай бұрын
@@WilfredZeijpveld Disney never pretended to own the concept of ducks (or mouses). Name me one case of Disney suing someone for having a duck character. What they do own is the character Donald Duck, including his specific design and name. It's not like D.D. is literally just a duck.
@kayakMike10003 ай бұрын
Well... Disney these days is pretty dumb. They wrecked Star Wars.
@francisdec16153 ай бұрын
The Disney universe is mainly built on lies, while Arne Anka is an anarchist and pessimist philosopher in cartoon format.
3 ай бұрын
He didn’t though. Disney just know it’s not worth pursuing. He still looks like Donald doesn’t matter what try hard reason you give for it.
@SIG4423 ай бұрын
Disney: "You are not allowed to copy our work! We will sue you!" Also Disney: "We will copy anything we wish, you can't stop us!"
@gustavmeyrink_2.03 ай бұрын
The reason is how lawyer fees are being paid. In the US both sides pay their own lawyers while in (most of) Europe the losing side pays the lawyers of both sides. This allows US corporations to sue small businesses or individuals into bankruptcy with cases they could ultimately never win.
@travismiller55483 ай бұрын
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0you can be awarded lawyers fees in many circumstances in the US.
@notfeedynotlazy3 ай бұрын
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Dunno about Swedish law, but can confirm that's how it works in Spain. You do need to pay your lawyer in advance, but once the trial ends the losing side is to pay all the trial's cost. SPECIFICALLY to avoid the "sue weaker firm into bankrupcy despite law being on its side" tactics.
@gustavmeyrink_2.03 ай бұрын
@@notfeedynotlazy Why Swedish law?
@notfeedynotlazy3 ай бұрын
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Uh... because the video description states this whole trololo happened there?
@krank233 ай бұрын
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably trademarked by Disney
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Hahah, it would seem like it!
@macsnafu3 ай бұрын
Unless it's Daffy Duck! A black duck instead of a white duck. Why doesn't somebody do a green and brown duck? wouldn't that be closer to real ducks?
@Teddyngham3 ай бұрын
@@macsnafu Plucky Duck is a green duck from Tiny Toon Adventures
@joelgalliardmusic3 ай бұрын
@@macsnafu Actually, Vitas used a cartoon animated Daffy Duck clone in exactly those colors for no reason at all in his videoclip ''Made in China'', that Duck is just vibing there the whole time lol
@janzizka99633 ай бұрын
Count Duckula also survived I think.
@kjells35783 ай бұрын
My fave line from the comic: "Am I living in a country or in a joke?"
@gamingSlasher3 ай бұрын
Very appropriate now a days.
@3nertia3 ай бұрын
It's always been a joke and high society is laughing all the way to the bank heh
@darkiee692 ай бұрын
Life is like a baboon ass, colorful and full of 💩
@cameronwebb56212 ай бұрын
wow he's literally me 🇺🇸
@SofaKingShitАй бұрын
A cruel hoax.
@geoffreyrichards60793 ай бұрын
This is going to become a lot more interesting once the year 2030 passes here in the USA, since that’ll be the year when Donald Duck enters the public domain.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
We may see an explosion and flourishing of cartoon ducks in the future 🤣
@meltdown61653 ай бұрын
Disney will pay some lobbyists (again) to extend the copyright terms to infinity.
@dlxmarks3 ай бұрын
The copyright expiration will be applied as it was to Mickey Mouse: a rolling public domain with the oldest iterations entering first.
@josephholsinger2623 ай бұрын
@@meltdown6165 That depends on how much money Disney still has since their movie division has been bleeding lots of cash due to making expensive flops.
@Malakawaka3 ай бұрын
Not true. What will enter the public domain is any work published before, according to copyright. But all characters are now trademarks, which if renewed timely don't expire
@KalleK-h5e3 ай бұрын
You forgot the best part .he sent the bill to Disney in real life
@Iscannon3 ай бұрын
The receipt or the mask?
@Rum-Runner3 ай бұрын
Like a replica of the mask, or the actual receipt?
@kalleboll74103 ай бұрын
o the receipt
@y2ksw13 ай бұрын
What did they say?
@davidiwata70633 ай бұрын
An NFT?
@Powersnufkin3 ай бұрын
"Thinking before you talk is like wiping your ass before you shit" Arne Duck.
@MrPPunch693 ай бұрын
That applies only when you talk shit...
@y2ksw13 ай бұрын
Is the comic available in English?
@Powersnufkin3 ай бұрын
@@y2ksw1 I dont know. i only found it in swedish and norwegian.
@peterrevens84543 ай бұрын
@@Powersnufkin Comes in danish too. Not that it would be to much help.
@swedishgooner63393 ай бұрын
”It’s when you feel the scent of your own poop you start to wonder what you really are” - Arne Anka
@jakemarcus99993 ай бұрын
Nothing gives me more pleasure than someone basically showing middle finger to big corporate and just keep doing great art
@DanielRossellSolanesАй бұрын
you never had an orgasm did you?
@CountJeffula3 ай бұрын
Disney should focus on actually making good content instead of stopping others from doing so.
@Nyoko1302 ай бұрын
Well said! Absolutely agree.
@joeszymanski35402 ай бұрын
In all fairness this all happened when they used to make quality entertainment.
@theecomsenseiАй бұрын
Do you think it's their creative people who sued him? 😂 Disney is a big corporation they have lawyers working independently and creative people working independently. They can do many things at once you know...😅
@CountJeffulaАй бұрын
@ doesn’t seem like they can. They only seem capable of focusing on a few things. Now, they are focusing on reboots and sequels because the execs felt that Turning Red and Luca were failures despite not having theatrical releases. Also, their lawyers defending Disney on the grounds that someone downloaded Disney+ and agreed to the terms and conditions therein agreeing to binding arbitration when their legal concern is about a woman’s death only further demonstrates a clear lack of enterprise cohesion. The marketing and PR department should never have allowed such a defense to be raised which diminishes customer relations and decreases trust. In fact, pretty much all of Disney’s actions of late have been in the interest of shareholders at the expense of the brand’s image and reputation.
@jaymcbakerkАй бұрын
Ironically they took a Scandinavian fairytale and black washed it, but hey
@Hrotti3 ай бұрын
Iceland and Finland is also obsessed with the Donald duck comics... Dont forget us
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Not mentioned, but not forgotten! Thanks for watching and commenting - and representing!
@EricvanDorp0073 ай бұрын
The Dutch 2
@janemiettinen51763 ай бұрын
In Finland we have our own duck painter, Kaj Stenvall. His works are pretty awesome.
@nzxt12343 ай бұрын
you are never forgotten Family ! you guys are great and i will always point out if a map of the nordic or convesation is missing iceland or if someone do not mention finland ! Grew up subscribtion donald duck and all the old case of old kalle anka comics not to mention the cartoons and Donald duck x-mas
@chemistryguy3 ай бұрын
Ahhhh, the rich tradition of sex-crazed, irredeemable anthropomorphic ducks. Howard the Duck. Duckman. I'd never heard of Arne Anka, but I'd like to meet him.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Thanks for mentioning Duckman, I had not heard of him - looks cool!
@masterofthecontinuum3 ай бұрын
Ducks are crazed rapists irl, so it fits.
@Tycahal19913 ай бұрын
Inspector Canardo
@the_epipan3 ай бұрын
What the hell is going on with the ducks? XD I would think lust would have more to do with rabbits or rats.
@RevelationsPrimo3 ай бұрын
@@edlundart TO quote Pan Pizza, the Rebel Taxi driver, "OH FVCK, its DICKMAN'
@NekoiscoolII2 ай бұрын
Donald Duck:"Who are you?" Arne Duck:"I'm you, but I like all the things you hate and dislike the things you love."
@rogermagnusson88773 ай бұрын
"I dont have a problem with alkohol. I have a problem with reality. " - Arne Anka
@thomaslutro55603 ай бұрын
I grew up with Donald Duck, then grew into Arne Anka. As a Norwegian, just got to say: We got the best neighbours ever!
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Grew up / grew into - what a great way to put it! And I agree, lots of cool stuff from Sweden.
@scamgodmillionaire3 ай бұрын
Vi gillar er också ❤
@TheoZier-gi8rg3 ай бұрын
@@edlundartNi är så grymma öck!!! Cezinando är en av de bästa nordiska artisterna någonsin!!
@benktlofgren47103 ай бұрын
Disney destroyed Donald Duck, with all new modern stuff. The Mickey Mouse parts were always the most boring parts of Kalle Anka & Co
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
@@TheoZier-gi8rg Oh wow, I LOVE Cezinando! And since I live in NYC, I never met or heard from anyone else who even knows about him. I think he is incredibly talented!
@nallenthepuh3 ай бұрын
Its gets even funnier that the Butricks mask and reciet actually exist in real life and is at a Disney Museum in Sweden. It was so fun to see it
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
It’s at a Disney museum??!
@mcstabba3 ай бұрын
Is it at Lasse Åbergs museum in Bålsta? I know he collects Disney stuff which he displays there as well as his own Disney inspired art.
@ZiddersRooFurry3 ай бұрын
It's not an official museum. It's just a museum that happens to have Disney memorabilia in it.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
@@ZiddersRooFurry That makes more sense 😀
@nallenthepuh3 ай бұрын
@@ZiddersRooFurry yes, its at Lasse Åberg musseum, it is a disney museum not an official disney musseum. :) and i have seen it irl.
@X0unz2 ай бұрын
Why is everything that is related to Donald Duck History is so good, like; -matttt’s video about the Duckman -and now this video Great Job! 👍
@edlundart2 ай бұрын
Thanks! I haven’t seen that video, but a few people have mentioned Duckman, so I’ll check it out!
@RexRex-n5t2 ай бұрын
Duckstorians are usually pretty creative. Yes that is what they call themselves.
@OmbreDunDouble2 ай бұрын
There's also Inspecteur Canardo, a great BD, dont know if there's translation of it tho.
@staffanpettersson3593 ай бұрын
"Framtiden är som en babianröv, färgglad och full med skit" 😂
@GhastlyGhostrider2 ай бұрын
Åh, de där är tammefan en klassiker! 🤣
@DonMachadoАй бұрын
Som det amerikanska talesättet, "Ursäkter är som idioter, alla har en, och de är alla fulla av skit."
@hallowen3 ай бұрын
Donald has actual character traits and flaws, and the stories about him are fun to read. He was always a better character than Mickey, that goddamn holier-than-thou rodent 😜
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
I agree! Donald Duck, especially in the earlier days, was actually a good character, and did have more of an edge to him than one typically associates with Disney. Also: "holier-than-thou rodent" is a hilarious description that made me laugh 🤣 Thanks for watching and chiming in!
@dlxmarks3 ай бұрын
Mickey was a much more entertaining before he got kicked upstairs to be the official corporate mascot.
@nisselarson32273 ай бұрын
Yeah but mickey started out fun and even MEAN. Then he became a crime-solving genius :)
@chromasus99833 ай бұрын
Even Mickey is a good character when he adventures as a detective. The mascot versions are so much lesser than the comic versions, for sure.
@pahvi33 ай бұрын
I liked to read the Donald Duck comics and Uncle Scrooge, but Donald always ended up unlucky and used by his uncle and I felt so bad for him
@SaigonMikael3 ай бұрын
In Finland, Donald Duck is also an institution. I would argue that most of us Finns, at least of those born between 1970 and 1990, learned to read from the Aku Ankka (Donald Duck in Finnish) magazine. Culturally the Nordic nations have a lot in common.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Yes, good point - Donald probably got millions of children started on the reading journey. Also, I am loving hearing from people in all the Nordic countries in this comments section. I probably should have said "the Nordic countries" rather than just Scandinavia when talking about the popularity of Donald Duck. Thanks for watching and adding your voice and representing Finland!
@zonraNboy3 ай бұрын
Yeah I remember my mom read Donald duck to me and then I wanted to learn to read them myself so I learned to read when I was 5. I also got interested in drawing because of Donald duck stories.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
@@zonraNboy I think it was the same for me regarding drawing. Donald and co, plus other comics characters, were the first things I wanted to draw, and I spent a lot of time learning how to draw each of them.
@jukka-pekkatuominen45402 ай бұрын
Aku Ankka magazine was at the time (and is still!) the most subscribed magazine in Finland. It is unprecedented how popular that magazine is in Finland.
@animtonni3 ай бұрын
in Denmark we got a new Donald duck issue each monday, and then my dad would read it to me and my sister... it is some of my most cherished childhood memories
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
That sounds really sweet! I have years of Donald material lodged into my head, including "Donald pocket books," did you have those?
@arctic.wizard3 ай бұрын
The most wholesome thing I've read all day. I wonder if my kids will look back as fondly on skibidi toilet.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
@@arctic.wizard Hah, only time will tell!
@nisselarson32273 ай бұрын
@@edlundart I had most of them. The Italian and South American characters got interesting for a while. The pocket books were not that good, and only half-colored for a while... But in the late 80's they started being great! :) Even if they introduced a love interest for Scrooge and such. I liked a lot of the new characters. Maybe Knase didn't need a nephew though. And gilbert? For a while everyone had to have a nephew.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
@@nisselarson3227 Yeah the pocket books got pretty wild with the storylines, it felt sort of like movies that just cast Disney characters in random roles. There was one where Donald (I think it was Donald) was a Formula 1 racer, and I think that one was sort of lodged in my head for many years and then still was instrumental in me deciding to start watching F1 at some point years and years and years after I read it. Anyway, you're right, it feels like Disney is obsessed with nephews.
@BigDaddyJinx3 ай бұрын
Beating a corporate megalith at their own game was chef's kiss x10. That's a 500 IQ 4D chess move right there.
@Alvedrotten3 ай бұрын
Cheers from Norway, and kudos to Sweden!
@ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution3 ай бұрын
Disney is just jealous because Arne And is far more cool than Donald Duck will ever be.
@ZiddersRooFurry3 ай бұрын
Donald Duck is a great character. Carl Barks work shouldn't be dismissed just because it's for a shitty company.
@ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution3 ай бұрын
@@ZiddersRooFurry Charlie Christensen (Alexander Barks)'s works should also not be dismissed. I did not say Donald Duck was not great, I said Arne And was MORE cool. But I agree that Donald Duck is greater as a character than Disney is as a company. Disney has many great and even some cool characters, but most of them was created before Walt Disney died and Disney became the shitty company we see today.
@nisselarson32273 ай бұрын
Butterick's is a real novelty store and that's their real receipt...
@virkots2 ай бұрын
Yes, Christensen went there and bought the beak in real life too, and sent a copy of the receipt to Disney's lawyers, hahaha.
@hansericsson70583 ай бұрын
Jag hade Arne i Metallarbetaren var annan vecka på 80 talet och klippte alltid ut och sparade dom, världens bästa serie helt klar. Skål kosmonauter!
@perpetualbystander45162 ай бұрын
Jag klippte också ur Arne Anka och sparade i en plastmapp!
@andersmalmgren65283 ай бұрын
My favorite line from Arne Anka and I basicly use daily is, Att tänka innan man talar, är som att torka sig i röven innan man skiter. Which roughly translates to, Thinking before you speak is like wiping your arse before you take a shit.
@arctic.wizard3 ай бұрын
I love this comic. Its raw and uncensored approach to humor took me by surprise when I discovered it as a teenager, and Arne lives rent-free in my head to this day.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
You and me both!
@ogelsmogel3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the nostalgic goose bumps! As a swede in my 40's I grew up reading Donald Duck comics (Don Rosa was my favorite artist with Carl Barks coming in a close second). Man, those were the days 😄 Then, as I grew up as a teenager I found other stuff, like Arne Anka (and later others like Rocky and Elvis, but Arne was the OG), and this video brought back so many memories! I love the way he handled the Disney lawsuit. I mean, if I had worked for Disney at that time I'd have to give it to him. It was brilliant 👌
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
So happy to hear from people for whom this was a nostalgia trip, that's great! And I agree that Don Rosa's line was great!
@MsEngelby2 ай бұрын
Don Rosa stories were brilliant. The stories happening in the background and the attention to detail.. Legendary.. I even bought a special issue a few years back just because I recognised his artwork. You never grow out of Don Rosa stories.
@Malin.I2 ай бұрын
Hur kan jag helt ha missat Arne Anka?! Känner ju till namnet men vart kunde man läsa? Jag är 35 så är ju några år mellan men att jag missat totalt och inte ens vetat något om Arne och att den verkar ju helt underbar😂
@HughJass-3132 ай бұрын
@@MsEngelby Rosa was lame. CARL BARKS is the *GOAT!* ☀️😎☀️
@AgsmaJustAgsma3 ай бұрын
Arne Anka and Paraguayan Mickey Mouse would definitely hang out every now and then.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Wow, thanks for mentioning this! I had not heard of this Paraguay case, but reading about it now - very interesting!
@andersmalmgren65283 ай бұрын
And mexican Yoshi
@Herfinnur3 ай бұрын
Wait, what? WHO!? Tell us more!
@y2ksw13 ай бұрын
Is that a thing?
@AgsmaJustAgsma3 ай бұрын
@@Herfinnur TL;DR a Paraguayan supermarket chain named Mickey SRL found a loophole where The Walt Disney Company did not trademark Mickey Mouse's profile view of his head, only the front. Disney took them to court and despite all odds, Mickey SRL won the case, and still uses Mickey Mouse's head on their logo to this very day.
@moremartinthanmartin3 ай бұрын
It's stuff like this I find extremely interesting. I don't think I would have ever found out about this in my life if I hadn't found this video. Thanks for uploading. This is fascinating!
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Love getting comments like this, thanks for checking it out!
@remelin753 ай бұрын
I wasn't aware of all this about Arne Anka! I only saw him in Metallarbetaren, which featured very short strips. Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane!
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
My pleasure - thanks for watching and commenting!
@ShawnChang64533 ай бұрын
Then again, did Disney paid all the ducks in the entire planet for using their resemblance without permission?
@WaiGee_3 ай бұрын
Finland and Estonia also were obsessed with the donald duck comics, my grandma had so many collected over the years and i binge read them every time i visited. My aunt in finland regularly visited and gifted me more of those comics. Love you both ❤
@TrylleBanjo2 ай бұрын
Arne Anka is the best! Such a grumpy, thoughtful bastard of a being ❤️
@ingvarhallstrom23063 ай бұрын
Philosophically, it's basically "Waiting for Godot" with booze, hangovers, and eternal sexual frustration.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
That’s very well put, hahah!
@RThyrring3 ай бұрын
Couldn’t agree more! 😂
@garretamiller3 ай бұрын
"Write yourself out of a paper bag". I like it.
@igalbitan50963 ай бұрын
Disney is truly evil. It's kinda ironic to figure out that Howard the Duck now belongs to Disney...
@xarvh3 ай бұрын
Anything that wants to reach that level of power is evil. There is no evil without power.
@igalbitan50963 ай бұрын
@@xarvh I agree with the first part. But I think one can be evil without (having or searching) power.
@anglaismoyen2 ай бұрын
@@igalbitan5096and likewise, power is not per se evil. It only becomes evil in the hands of sinful humanity.
@igalbitan50962 ай бұрын
@@anglaismoyen Indeed! It tends to corrupt humans.
@OleAlexanderBrunaes3 ай бұрын
The so-called Donald Duck stuff that is broadcast on Scandinavian television every Christmas Eve is literally From All of Us to All of You, only processed, what is variable from year to year are the Christmas surprises.
@kimmikkelsen96013 ай бұрын
One of my favorite quotes of all time, describes the reality I live in, as a person living with chronic disease: "Om livet siger Arne And: At klare sig i nutidens samfund. er som at hoppe ud fra en skyskraber og være lykkelig hele vejen ned" (( About life Arne Duck says: Living in contemporary society is like jumping off a skyscraper and being happy the whole way down)) This speaks to what Arne And is really about. It reflects on how hard life can be at times, but society expects you to smile. This is why Arne And is such a genious work of art!
@Drakiren3 ай бұрын
the artist did go to buttericks and buy the mask, which he sent to the law firm with a copy of the reciept as well, which is the main reason they backed down.
@romaricogalvez10243 ай бұрын
If it moves like a duck,walks like a duck,quacks like a duck,it is a……
@inkchariot61473 ай бұрын
Chicken
@stoferb8763 ай бұрын
@@inkchariot6147 with a wearable duck beak.
@arctic.wizard3 ай бұрын
Copyright infringement.
@mr.theking24843 ай бұрын
@@arctic.wizard Damnit, came here to say that exact line, beat me to it by 6 minutes
@trashcatlinol3 ай бұрын
@@mr.theking2484sucks being a day late to drop that comment off XD
@Popesize3 ай бұрын
Arne Anka. A comic full of memorable quotes. If i remember right, the EIC of Tago tried to please to Disney at first. Saying that the similar looks and the name was a hommage to the originals. The fake beak actually existed in the store. That was the real reciept from the store in wich Charlie bought it from.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
The idea that it’s a real store and a real beak that the artist bought is a great detail, thanks for adding that - and thanks for watching and commenting!
@petter57213 ай бұрын
En öl är en öl 😂
@Webhead1233 ай бұрын
I love it when the writers and artists get creative in the face of adversity. If you want another story about cartoon ducks and their creators fighting back, take a look into how Steve Gerber found a clever way retain some control over Howard the Duck after feeling betrayed by Marvel.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Same here re: adversity! I just read a bit about Howard the Duck vs Disney after another comment about him. If you know a good link with info on that stuff, please do share.
@gorilladisco91082 ай бұрын
I found this on google: rsmwriter.blogspot.com/2016/04/all-quacked-up-steve-gerber-marvel.html
@bow-tiedengineer44533 ай бұрын
I love this! One thing that I've thought for a long time should be added to copyright law is a clause stating that nobody can sue an entity with less than 1% of their own net worth. If you're as big as Disney, you can afford to let people parody your stuff.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Thank you! I think some kind of moderation like that seems like a great idea.
@GwydionFrost3 ай бұрын
I feel there is something beautiful here -- once again, the 1% get preferential treatment from the courts... It's just the BOTTOM 1% for a change. You know, the ones that the courts really should be looking out for, if one wants to be called civilized. 🤷🏻♂️
@bow-tiedengineer44533 ай бұрын
@@GwydionFrost That's the thing, though, the top 1% has more than 100x the money of a lot of people. The wealth distribution curve is practically exponential. Even excluding the fact that nearly every corporation would be even higher than this, the 99th percentile net worth in the US is well over 10 million, so something like 40% of all US citizens fall below the 100k net worth where they would be protected from any civil suits by the 1%, and even some multi-millionaires would be unsuable by billionaires and very large corporations. Doing this would disincentivize wealth hoarding and large corporations, because becoming too big would make it completely impossible to sue people for breaches of your intellectual property.
@bow-tiedengineer44533 ай бұрын
@@GwydionFrost Oh, also another thing: Due to how debt based the US economy is, over 10% of people actually have zero or negative net worth, so your struggling artists with student loans barely able to afford the rent, along with a large chunk of the working class, would be almost entirely immune to copyright law. I will fully admit, I'm very left leaning. I think it's entirely fucked that wealth disparities of more than three or four orders of magnitude can even exist in the first place. I will admit, if you get lucky and do literally everything right, it is possible to become a millionaire through hard work. My dad grew up working class, and by being incredibly frugal, getting a good education, and getting a well paying job, he recently retired with just over a million in total assets. But unless you are a Henry Ford level innovator, it's just not possible to actually earn much more than 10 million in a human lifetime on your own merits, and I don't think people with much more than that should be allowed to take other people's money. On the other side, plenty of people are fucked into debt and have no financial support from their families, and I don't think anyone should be able to kick them while they're down. The whole thing of it being morally fine to steal bread from Wallmart. So, yeah, disallowing lawsuits if the plaintiff has multiple orders of magnitude more money than the defendant would do so much to give more class equality in the world.
@GwydionFrost3 ай бұрын
@@bow-tiedengineer4453 you mean, in essence acting as in, oh I don't know, an intellectual property decentralization, where the only people you need to fear are those rivals who are nearly as competent or incompetent as yourself. Just don't rip off the fringe guys. 😉
@Ciprian-Amarandei3 ай бұрын
Disney that stole every story he ever animated
@sharpeningtheaxe3 ай бұрын
This was a fantastic video! You’re a great storyteller. Thanks for making this!
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for the compliment, and thanks for watching and commenting! Your kindness is appreciated.
@TheRealStructurer3 ай бұрын
Yes I fondly remember those Tuesdays as a kid in 🇸🇪 Then Arne Anka when I got older. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Thanks for tuning in and chiming in!
@dangerousdays20523 ай бұрын
I like the part where he called the cop a fascist and kicked his car 😂😂
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
He is one unafraid duck 😂
@SteamingPerson3 ай бұрын
Well the joke is that he's disappointed Sweden isn't more fascist so he can justify his protest. The comic panel is from a page where he joins a protest (I can't remember what the purpose of it was or if it was given) and then tries to start trouble, kicking the cop car and hurling abuse at a policeman who just calmly asks him to go back to his protesting. Ends with Arne walking away disappointed that he doesn't live in a country like Chile or other politically unstable countries of the time.
@maskharat3 ай бұрын
@@edlundart I'd say he's Arne Goose with a prosthetic duck beak. His behavior and own beak certainly reminds me of a goose
@alinm48443 ай бұрын
Based duck!
@MadMarx-ws5bp3 ай бұрын
@SteamingPerson It's a very funny strip! I love how the policeman treats him like an angry child.
@lilithcal3 ай бұрын
Ironic that Disney sued Marvel over their representation of Howard the Duck, leading to Howard now being drawn with trousers. Now Disney owns Howard in the Marvel acquisition.
@StellaFangX3 ай бұрын
Why they didn't pull an Howard and Donald Duck's crossover yet? Did they or not.
@retrofan49632 ай бұрын
Big irony for sure. Disney tried to sue Howard the Duck leading the creator of Howard Steve Gerber to fight back in court since he wants to keep Howard's original design and Marvel changes Howard's design including adding trousers or else Disney will sue. Even though, Disney now owns Howard the Duck because they now own Marvel as a whole, Disney still wants Howard's design to be distinguishingly different from Donald.
@StellaFangX2 ай бұрын
@@retrofan4963 Well, they try to not look cheap with Howard and Donald, despite the fact their formulas are already known to be cheap since years.
@GentPix3 ай бұрын
Can't believe I'd live to see the day where Arne Anka is discussed outside of Swedish KZbin. I wrote, directed and starred in a little bootleg play based on the alcoholic ducky, myself. Great video!
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Wow, that’s awesome! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏
@PS-it1dm3 ай бұрын
I found some of the Arne Duck comics translated into Finnish from library maybe a decade ago. Loved these comics. I grew up with weekly Donald Duck magazine. In Finland it was released on wednesdays. We also watched the Donald duck cartoon at christmas time when I was kid.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Awesome that it’s available in Finnish, too! I wish it was available in English, so I could share it with friends over here in the US. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@MetsisJ3 ай бұрын
The Finnish edition Aku Ankka still comes out. The number of readers peaked at the year 2017 to 574 000 of a population 5,5 million back then then making it the most read magazine in the country! The print run has since then been in declining, but Finland still leads in the statistics of Disney-comics read in relation to the population size.
@PS-it1dm3 ай бұрын
@@MetsisJ I haven't bought the comic for a decade now. For me decline started when Keno Don Rosa stopped making the comics. He is and was the best artist for the magazine.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
@@MetsisJ Yeah those are incredible numbers!
@imagiro1Ай бұрын
This is an extremely encouraging story that inspires hope. Especially for a guy named Arne.
@sysghost3 ай бұрын
Poor Walt Disney Co. They're losing so much money because of Arne Duck.
@beaniiman2 ай бұрын
I don't care for all the litigation Disney gets involved with but if they don't do that, they lose the copyright. If they lost the copyright, then anybody can make Donald Duck anything and they could do nothing about it. They literally do not do it just to be mean. Same goes with Nintendo.
@emberguard50092 ай бұрын
Donald duck is just a generic white duck in a blue sailors uniform.
@davidsentanu78362 ай бұрын
@@emberguard5009No it does not. Ducks don't actually look like Donald Duck. Donald Duck has arms and hands. Donald Duck has a flat wide beak, real ducks have long more tubular beak. Donald Duck has flat feet. Real ducks basically have webbed chicken legs. Donald Ducks has extremely large eyes that don't fit in his skull. Real ducks have small eyes on the sides on their heads. Donald Duck wear a shirt but not pants (except when swimming, for some reasons.)
@quasimodo82152 ай бұрын
😆
@Lilldjur2 ай бұрын
I was suprised (and happy) when this came up into my feed. Growing up with Arne Anka and being inspiration to my own artistic exploreation, this made my sunday morning. Thank you.
@edlundart2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@222Cooler2 ай бұрын
6:40 saddam hussein hiding spot.
@eleson003 ай бұрын
"The dance floor is for those that can't afford hanging in the bar." //Arne Anka
@JoakimKanon3 ай бұрын
Yes, lots of Arne Anka and Pyton in my pre-teen edgelord days… 🤩👌🏼
@pettson38163 ай бұрын
Åh nu påminde du mig om att jag har massa årgångs-pyton i källarförrådet jag måste ta upp och läsa någon gång.
@TheOdMan2 ай бұрын
Arne Anka, the pride of Sweden! I loved this in the 90's and I had no clue it was still being produced, I need to re-connect to the Arne-verse.
@motodotsh3 ай бұрын
this deserves to go viral, this is great. i need this comic
@andreascarlberg39983 ай бұрын
Yes, you do! There are plenty of disturbed and wonderful swedish cartoons. Enrich your life.
@TheRutefly3 ай бұрын
Had a big impact on my drawing and drinking. Humanity thanks you Charlie.
@Formalec3 ай бұрын
Smart gjort av dem. Det finns kreativt utrymme för att ha mer än en eller till och med ett par serie anka.
@joakimjanthe76793 ай бұрын
He's like Henry Chinaski but desperate and with a constant need for confirmation and affection. World Class comic!
@DacusMaIus3 ай бұрын
Without Donald, no Christmas made me remember my childhood! Grew up in Germany during the late 90s. Every year, the movie 'The Last Unicorn' played on Christmas eve for at least a decade!
@ONIYAUTJA3 ай бұрын
Great movie… must watch.
@narmale3 ай бұрын
“The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are” is a quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero the fact that this works... a fictional character, drawing a fictional mask and is now legally accepted... shows it was bad even 40 years ago
@kayleevalli26813 ай бұрын
Wonderful David vs. Goliath story, thank you!
@DavidLeeIngersoll3 ай бұрын
Hahahahahhah! This is a much happier end than that of Howard the Duck - forced to wear pants and ultimately owned by Disney.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Forcing someone to wear pants is so Disney - I’m surprised they haven’t forced their own duck to do it 😂
@marcelo-ramos3 ай бұрын
The pants were immediately dropped though.
@benktlofgren47103 ай бұрын
@@marcelo-ramos So Gunter has nothing to do with it? No Pantalones song 😂
@h.a.98803 ай бұрын
I bet Disney was really salty that they didn't come up with the name Arne Anka themselves.
@SaddieMoon2 ай бұрын
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought this video was about Daffy trying to stray too close to Disney’s lawyers.
@CrossfacePanda3 ай бұрын
I read Arne Anka as a kid, borrowing a big hardcover book from my school library that collected the comic’s run from 1983-1995. Most of it flew over my head (I wasn’t exactly the target demographic), but as an avid duck comics reader most of my life up to that point, I was facinated by the mere existence of the comic, as it almost felt like you were reading something forbidden.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
I think in a way that's how it felt to me as well. Some of my most-loved media took this path in my life.
@odraciskatube77253 ай бұрын
i love that they still dare to go against the grain it shows backbone.
@jargien2402 ай бұрын
"Skål Kosmonauter!" Damn I'd almost fogotten about Arne Anka. We had a couple of collection magazines in the bathroom during my days as a student living in a shared appartment. My cousin was the one who introduced me to Arne and I pretty much quit reading Donald Duck at that point. Could be because Arne hit closer to home with my whole lifestyle at that time in life.
@maxordman41002 ай бұрын
Very cool comic history video Arna Duck sounds like an amazing character. Good job telling the story too.
@edlundart2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@langbo99993 ай бұрын
Absolutely The Art of Scandinavian countries I know i'm danish 🇩🇰 We f****** love dark humor in Scandinavia.
@virkots2 ай бұрын
I'm Swedish and when I was a kid me and my two best friends were obsessed with Donald Duck (Kalle Anka), probably me more than them. We used to trade old issues of Kalle Anka & C:O with each other and go to our local "loppis" to buy old issues. I can't think about my childhood without thinking of Kalle Anka. Kalle Anka was everything for a brief while.
@MrJontte793 ай бұрын
I remember reading Arne Anka in the Pyton magazine as a teenager. Good times! 😁
@AndersJackson2 ай бұрын
There are still new Albums produced. I guess you would like them too.
@rachel_v_k2 ай бұрын
I love this story! Good job, Arne, for sticking it to "the man."😂
@einosalama3 ай бұрын
In finland it still has 110 000 subscribers and is still the most subscribed weekly magazine. In 2008 the peak subscriber count for Aku Ankka (Donald Duck) was 325 000 subscribers (6.5% of the population at the time). It was also a staple at every classroom in Finland
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Finland is really well represented in this comments section, which is probably another sign of the strength of Donald/Aku over there! Thank you for watching and commenting.
@AndersJackson2 ай бұрын
But do you have a translation of Arne Anka to Finish? Or do you all read it in Swedish?
@einosalama2 ай бұрын
@@AndersJackson we do have a translation! While swedish is an official language many Finn's aren't that great at it (me included) so we usually have a translated version. Arne Anka (in Finnish just, Aarne Ankka) is one of those translated works
@dmitripogosian5084Ай бұрын
@@einosalama Interesting then that duck, Ankka, in Finnish is basically same like in Swedish, not like in Estonian. Seems a borrowed word.
@atomjones21402 ай бұрын
This is what winning truly looks like, wearing your favorite costume.
@jayconstantine59283 ай бұрын
As an artist, my hatred of the Disney Corporation grows with each new story I hear about them. . . it's a wonder they didn't say "It was a Donald Duck mask, and get the copyright enforced that way. . .
@bradentheman13732 ай бұрын
Me being an artist with family who works at disney 💀 i can’t escape it.
@Axpo252 ай бұрын
Donald Duck was my favorite comic book during my childhood. Now that I'm 35, I no longer buy that comic as I have different interest. But it deserved some place in both of my memory and my heart.
@kevinmorriceАй бұрын
so hes a duck that looks like a bird pretending to be a duck
@osiroid13 ай бұрын
What fun! Arne is great ;) Thanks for the presentation beyond Scandinavia!
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks! 🙏
@sirenia7553 ай бұрын
I like the way he tell Disney to stuff your copyright, lol.
@DataStorm12 ай бұрын
that pic of donald duck at 1:36, is gold in itself, for its everything Donald Duck, doing everything for her, but being a total disaster by almost, but not yet tripping over those little portals, and her having those hammers right next to her to start the punishment.... His eyes closed for that really takes it home that he's not paying attention at all...
@WarBeasty3 ай бұрын
I remember back in the 80's, I had an actual Donald Duck comic book where he accidentally got high on ether, tripped balls and crashed his car.. I remember thinking it was hilarious.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Hahah, that sounds good!
@MrAstrojensen3 ай бұрын
I remember that one!!
@martinhumble2 ай бұрын
Read the comics with Arne here in Sweden as a kid. Still have them somewhere, together with - I guess - a thousand DD magazines from 1950 and forwards. Love them both.
@edlundart2 ай бұрын
I'm the same - both ducks have been meaningful in my life!
@shanxmonappa8703 ай бұрын
Enjoyed the way you narrated the whole story.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Thank you, much appreciated!
@TracksWithDax2 ай бұрын
Oh man this is hilarious! Im seriously impressed something so simple worked. I'm sure it made for an interesting plot arc too
@Njald3 ай бұрын
I met Charlie Christensen i the mid 90ies and he was contemplating taking a break from Arne (who had started in the early 80ies in a Union magazine for Metal workers union). he felt as he was living in Spain he had lost some touch with the contemporary issues of Sweden that made the drunken ramblings of Arne so poignant. He did indeed take a log hiatus from the comic not long after that. For me Arne was essential reading in the early 90ies when the monthly strips were publish in paperback issues. Eventhough I was a teenager/early 20ies and perhaps couldn't always understand the "life on hold" mind set of Arne, the humour and the political/philosophical side always hit home. Is is as essential as Strindberg, Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Your perspective on Arne sounds similar to mine - I was more ambitious, and I wasn’t a drinker, but in my quiet way I have a little bit of a punk streak and a rebellious mind that found a voice in characters like Arne!
@AreHan1991Ай бұрын
Yes, I remember well those comix! Disney’s attack boosted the popularity of the series enormously, everybody loved their solution 😂🤣
@TommyLikeTom3 ай бұрын
It's a really neat detail that you decided to talk and look like Elmer Fudd for this video
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.
@melange783 ай бұрын
I think the Butterick's mask moment was the point where I religiously fell in love with Arne Anka because it was like "double inversion meta" or so meta that it became real.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
That’s well put!
@lolledopke3 ай бұрын
The language in that legal letter is really old fashioned, even for 1990.
@PATWO2 ай бұрын
what a plot twist! Priceless :) we need more artists like these :) Thanks for the share :)
@edlundart2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting. 🙏
@grannieannie13713 ай бұрын
That's absolutely brilliant
@christianmuller21773 ай бұрын
Charlie Christensen, Sir, humanity will never be able to thank you enough for what you have done. I am in awe! And deeply gereatful. And I may be speaking a bit in jest, but not nearly as much as one might think. And thanks to you, elundart, for telling this story. It made my day, which was a sad one until i "met" you here and heard your story.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Awesome comment, thanks! 🙏
@itsjustameme3 ай бұрын
Another thing that may surprize americans is that it is Donald Duck and not Mickey Mouse who gets his own magazine in Scandinavia. Mickey is after all almost the embodyment of Disney around the world - well not in Scandinavia. Mickey is too perfect and he frankly seems a bit too clean and booring for scandinavian audiences. Donald Duck by contrast is actually interesting - he has a real life he is trying to live, he has money problems, anger problems, a somewhat fickle girlfriend he is trying to please, as well as problems with living up to be the parent he ought to be - real problems that people can relate to, but dialed up to 10.
@edlundart3 ай бұрын
Yes, well said! Donald is a good character in that he isn’t all good 😀 Thanks for watching and adding your voice!
@unspeakableoaf3 ай бұрын
I seem to recall there was a brief period Mickey had his own magazine too, long after Donald had entrenched himself in Scandinavian culture. It didn't last long, or the sieve I use for a brain is leaking again.
@SvengelskaBlondie3 ай бұрын
As a Swede, I completely agree. Ive never been fond of Mickey cause he feels way too squeaky clean, he's too morally perfect and that makes it boring (Mickey barely or doesn't even have any flaws, if he does they don't matter). I love Donald duck cause he has real struggles, he has real flaws and he feels much more like a real character as opposed to some 1 dimensional stick like Mickey.
@itsjustameme3 ай бұрын
@@SvengelskaBlondie not only does he not have flaws. He barely has a personality.
@UlfKristersson-vx8it2 ай бұрын
Yea, but Janne långben is pretty good as well IMO
@CockerelOfficial29 күн бұрын
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@AndersCandell3 ай бұрын
Sign in the bar: "All irony is strictly forbidden in this bar". I love this comic.