Everything about Disneyland Memorial Orgy totally explained
The Disneyland Memorial Orgy is a cartoon illustration created by
Wally Wood for satirist
Paul Krassner's radical humor publication
The Realist. Published shortly after the death of
Walt Disney, the artwork was commissioned by Krassner to portray the liberated behavior of the cartoon characters featured in many of Disney's
animated films.
Background
The drawing first appeared in
The Realist #74 (May, 1967), and Krassner also published a larger version as a poster, initially selling several thousand copies. The original art was stolen from the printer. Krassner got the idea from Disney's December 15, 1966 death (and the God is dead meme): » This was a few years after Time's famous "God Is Dead" cover, and it occurred to me that Disney was indeed God to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy -- the whole crowd -- he'd been their creator and had repressed their baser instincts, but now they could shed all their inhibitions and participate in a magnificent mass binge.
Krassner wasn't sued by
Disney, but Disney did force Sam Ridge, a publisher of psychedelic posters who produced a colorized, bootleg version, into an out-of-court settlement. The drawing is often used to illustrate certain parts of
copyright laws in the
United States, namely those that permit original works to be partially copied for satirical or critical goals but which outlaw reproductions made purely for commercial purposes.
Description
Only about a third of the 64 Disney characters depicted are actively involved in
sexual intercourse or are on the point of undertaking it. Most are just observing the others. A few of the characters are occupied with other activities. A dazed
Mickey Mouse, to the left in the bottom area, is plunging a
syringe in his arm, while the paraphernalia of
drug addicts lies at his feet. Next to him, an
evil looking and grinning
Pluto is urinating on a large painting of the eager face of Mickey. One of the small
rabbits from
Bambi is probably engaged in the sin of
gluttony, featured licking an
ice cream cone. In the upper left,
Dumbo the flying
elephant has just defecated on
Donald Duck while in flight.
The wide activity of the scene and the panoramic view resembles the satires of
William Hogarth or
medieval depictions from such masters such as
Hieronymus Bosch. The upper left portion is decorated with a few allusions to the lucrative nature of Walt Disney enterprises.
The poster was originally in black-and-white, but Paul Krassner recently made a new digitally colored version available.
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