Arne Anka

In 1990, the Nordic division of the Walt Disney Company ordered Christensen's publisher to cease and desist all publication of Arne Anka, due to the character's resemblance to Donald Duck, and threatened to sue if they didn't. To get around this, Christensen came up with a two-part plan; first, he had Arne undergo plastic surgery to have his beak reshaped so that he no longer looked like a duck, and changed his name to Arne X. Then, after almost a year of hearing other characters (and some readers) tell him that he looked better before, Arne buys a fake duck beak to wear over his altered beak so he can look like his former self, reasoning that he could always remove the false beak if any of Disney's lawyers confronted him. Thus, with the exception of a thin line on the back of his head to represent the elastic band holding his new beak on, his appearance was the same as before. As a result of all this, the character's popularity soared, as the readers saw him as a hero for standing up to an enormous American corporation; Arne became a symbol of Swedish pride and defiance. == Theater play ==

In 1995, Arne Anka was produced as a play at Stockholm City Theatre (Stockholms Stadsteater). The play was written by Christensen himself, and it was called "Arne Anka - en afton på Zekes" ("''Arne Anka - an evening at Zeke's''"), starring Robert Gustafsson as Arne. == Albums ==

• Arne Anka, Tago 1989 • • Arne Anka, Del II, Tago 1991 • • Arne Anka, Del III, Tago 1993 • • Arne Anka, Bombad och sänkt" (Bombed and Sunk), Autobiography, Tago 1993 • • Arne Anka, Del IV, Tago 1995 • • Jag, Arne (Me, Arne) (collected comics 1983-1995), (hardcover), Tago, 1997 • • Jag, Arne (Me, Arne) (collected comics 1983-1995), (softcover), Kartago, 2001 • • Arne Anka, Del V: Återuppståndelsen (The resurrection), Kartago 2006 • • Arne Anka, Del VI: Manöver i mörkret (Maneuver in the dark), Kartago 2007 • • Arne Anka, Del VII: Ner med monarkin (Down with the Monarchy), Kartago 2008 • • Arne Anka: Rapport från kriget (Report from the war), Kartago 2010 • • Arne Anka IX - Voodoo vid vatten (Voodoo by the water), Kartago 2011 • • Arne Anka X - Utsikt från en svamp (View from a mushroom), Kartago 2013 • • Arne Anka XI - Dagbok från Svitjod (Diary from Svitjod), Kartago 2014 • • Arne Anka XII - Mentala selfies (Mental selfies), Kartago 2016 • • " Arne Anka XIII - Alla dessa krig talar om oss själva (All These Wars talk About Ourselves)", Zeke´s Förlag 2022 • • "All These Wars talk About Ourselves)", Zeke´s Förlag 2023 • ==See also==