History ComicBook / ArneAnka

* MsFanservice: All female characters, pretty much. Later explained by the author; we are seeing the world through Arne's eyes, and he is so sexually frustrated any reasonably attractive woman looks like a sexed-up version of Botticelli's Venus to him.

* ''Arne Anka: ''Alla dessa krig talar om os själva (All these wars talk about ourselves)'' (2022)

** The spy who Arne gets mixed up with was disguised as [[ComicBook/MickeyMouse Pete]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: One strip has Arne meeting with his friend Kalle Kapun who is looking for moral support after cheating on his wife. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Arne quickly makes it clear that he is having none of it, that by cheating Kalle's spat in his wife's face, and that Arne will gladly pay for the bullets if Kalle's wife ever decides to shoot his dick off; in short, he makes it clear that Kalle can take his self-pity and cram it.]] This also leads to Arne being picked up by a nearby woman who overheard the conversation. This, in turn, leads to the decision to go bar-hopping with Kalle more often...
* ShoutOut: In one strip where Arne is looking for a suit for a wedding, he puts on an [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments old sailor suit, making him look even more like Donald Duck, poking fun at the Disney lawsuit]]. He even comments that he can't go outside looking like this, or else he will be sued.

* MistakenIdentity: One strip from the mid-80's, which parodied the infamous case of Stig Bergling, a spy who had gotten out of prison by sneaking out an unguarded backdoor, had Arne buy a paper to read more of the story, only to find an article showing that Bergling had plastic surgery and now looked like [[OhCrap HIM]]. After getting hauled off to maximum security prison, he's released when it turns out the paper had accidentaly gotten the wrong photo from the goverment files (Arne's came from the social security registry).

After getting complaints from his readers about the changes, Christensen decided to spite Disney by having Arne buy a fake beak in the shape of his old one, which was held up by a rubber band, and simultaneously changing the comic's name back to it's original title. Christensen then kept drawing the rubber band around Arne's head until Disney finally withdrew the lawsuit threat, as the whole event attracted quite a bit of public attention in Sweden, and increased the comic's popularity tenfold.

In 2004, Christensen started out a new series, by the name of ''Konrad K.'', in which Arne at first appeared in small cameos. Eventually the a full-on HostileShowTakeover took place, and Konrad K. was written completely out of the series, while Arne became the main character again, now armed with even more bile against the world, as he in the time between the series had been going through a rough divorce and now had two sons to take care of.

* AllMenArePerverts: OH yes, the comics main focus aside from social satire is sex and the lengths men are willing to go for it. That said...

* ''Arne Anka: Utsikt från en svamp (The view from a swamp)'' (2013)

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: One strip has Arne meeting with his friend Kalle Kapun who is looking for moral support after cheating on his wife. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Arne quickly makes it clear that he is having none of it, that by cheating Kalle's spat in his wife's face, and that Arne will gladly pay for the bullets if Kalle's wife ever decides to shoot his dick off; in short, he makes it clear that Kalle can take his self-pity and cram it.]] This also leads to Arne being picked up by a nearby woman who overheard the conversation.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The author's pseudonym, Alexander Barks, is a shout-out to Creator/CarlBarks.

* AuthorAvatar: In the 1983-95 comics, Alexander Barks appears in the comic every now and then to deliver some commentary. Barks is always depicted as a man with a sheet over his head, though his eyes, which are perpetually downcast, are visible. Also; many of Christensen's friends has pointed out that Arne appears to have quite a few traits in common with Christensen himself.

* AssShove: Happens to Arne when a couple of HardGay guys take exception to Arne's insistance on using the word "gay" as a pejorative for things he doesnt like.

* TheCameo: Several, as part of Christensens homage to European comic books. Many famous comic book characters will make cameos in the background in street scenes, and in two noteable examples, as part of "Arnes circle of friends". Among these can be mentioned [[ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio Spirou]], ComicBook/{{Tintin}}, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, [[{{Creator/Disney}} Gyro Gearloose and Goofy]]. There's also the fantasy sequence with ComicStrip/KrazyKat and Ignatz.

---> SO, WHAT ARE YOU READING? "THE DEFENSE BUDGET FOR 1991"? HOW BORING IS THAT? CHECK OUT SOME '''REAL''' GUNS! ''(pulls out a porn mag)'' YOU KNOW WHAT WE'LL DO IF THE ENEMY COMES? WE'LL '''WANK''' ON THE BASTARDS! HAHAHA!

--> '''Krille''': Why cant you tell the damn story about Tom Thumb like eveyone else?!
--> '''Arne''': I was getting there, I was just explaining the setting first!

---> SO, WHAT ARE YOU READING? "THE DEFENSE BUDGET FOR 1991"? HOW BORING IS THAT? CHECK OUT SOME '''REAL''' GUNS!''(pulls out a porn mag)'' YOU KNOW WHAT WE'LL DO IF THE ENEMY COMES? WE'LL '''WANK''' ON THE BASTARDS! HAHAHA!

* PretenderDiss: Arne's Roman ancestor slags off {{Creator/Virgil}} as a "fucking dilettante" who only writes about "shepherds and sheep-shaggery" (referencing ''Eclogiae'', the original [[{{Arcadia}} pastoral love poems]] and considered to be one of the high points of Roman literature) and "keeps going on and ''on'' and '''''ON''''' about the [[TheAeneid huge epic about the founding of the city he's going to start working on any day now...]]

* AuthorAvatar: In the 1983-95 comics, Alexander Barks appears in the comic every now and then to deliver some commentary on the comic. Barks is always depicted as a man with a sheet over his head, though his eyes, which are perpetually downcast, are visible. Also; many of Christensen's friends has pointed out that Arne appears to have quite a few traits in common with Christensen himself.

* AuthorAvatar: In the 1983-95 comics, Alexander Barks appears every now and then as a man with a sheet over his head giving him a look of permanent depression. Also; many of Christensen's friends has pointed out that Arne appears to have quite a few traits in common with Christensen himself.

* IdenticalGrandson: Two longer stories deal with ancestors of Arne, one a poet in post-WorldWar1 Paris during the bohemic revolution, and the other another poet during the events leading up to the assassination of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar. Both stories provide commentary on the popular view of the eras portrayed, and deconstructs them.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: One strip has Arne meeting with his friend Kalle Kapun who is looking for moral support after cheating on his wife. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Arne quickly makes it clear that he is having none of it, that by cheating Kalle's spat in his wife's face, and that Arne will gladly pay for the bullets if Kalle's wife ever decides to shoot his dick off; in short, he makes it clear that Kalle can take his self-pity and cram it.]] This also leads to Arne being picked up by a nearby woman who overheard the conversation.
* ShoutOut: In one strip where Arne is looking for a suit for a wedding, he puts on an [[CrowningMomentOfFunny old sailor suit, making him look even more like Donald Duck, poking fun at the Disney lawsuit]]. He even comments that he can't go outside looking like this, or else he will be sued.