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In the midst of the lawsuit, O'Neill traveled to Ireland and Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where he pioneered the genre of comic strip journalism with The Penny-Ante Republican, a four-page, single-sheet comic which sold for one cent, and which told stories of O'Neill's experiences with the Irish Republican Army and the American Indian Movement. For this work, the 11th international Congress of Cartoonists and Animators would present him with the Yellow Kid Award in 1976.
O'Neill later drew a short-lived, full color strip for the National Lampoon about the adventures of the Bat-winged Hamburger Snatcher, and returned to the Chronicle with a weekly strip, titled simply O'Neill, which ran from 1980 to 1985. The final year of O'Neill was reprinted in Comics Revue.
Dan O'Neill was one of twenty-two artists and writers featured in Comic Book Confidential a feature-length documentary. He was interviewed while playing pool next to two scantily clad female strippers and self describes his career as "if you're going down in flames you might as well hit something big."
In 2008, he appeared in the documentary film RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, which discussed the negative effects of copyright laws. O'Neill stated that he made of Disney in large part because they were the worst at using lawsuits to stifle parodies, spoofs, and other fair use commentaries.
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