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Edits during move from Dan O'Neill

User:Khaosworks: thanks for the clarification on the wording that you changed back, after I moved all that stuff from the O'Neill article; I hope there's not much else that I obscured while trying to streamline the text. However, I do think we ought to strike the bit about O'Neill's "penchant for exaggeration". No matter how accurate that may be, without background it just looks like a bit of snarky POV, and in an encyclopedia article it's hard to address such things properly. The sources we refer to have it covered, I think - and the phrase "conflicting memories of the litigants" includes the contradictory things O'Neill has said. Thanks for all your work on these fascinating articles. ←Hob 15:03, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

I can live with that. I interviewed O'Neill for the purposes of my thesis on the Air Pirates. Fascinating guy, and a joy to talk to (but yes, he does tend to self-mythologize just a tad, but I suppose that falls foul of WP:NOR :) ...). I haven't spotted any major discrepancies about the move other than that, but if I see anything I'll tweak it, as I'm sure other people will as well. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 15:44, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

According to various reports in the Whole Earth Catalogs …

Defending O’Neill almost destroyed the Portola Institute, the overall entity behind the beloved Catalog. O’Neill’s final surrender was a self-portrait sketch of the artist,dressed only in a barrel held up by two shoulder straps, on his lawyer’s letterhead saying “I promise never to draw Disney characters again. the saddest part was, when the US Supreme Court took up obvious parody a few years later, it ruled obvious parody lega, protected by the 1st Amendment. Trotts and Bonnie and DirtyDuck, never challenged, continued to run in the National Lampoon, a wonderful magazine destroyed by Warner Brothers when it bought the mag mainly for a series of movies. Incidentally - a major error needs fixing. The first issue of Hell Comix Air Pirates was called “Mickey Mouse Meets the Air Pirates (personal collection) Linguistic Irregular (talk) 06:04, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]