Comics are for 2 year olds? (Re: Digest #30)

[Harry Fluks]

Don Rosa wrote:
> 	I don't think Egmont has a company policy of compelling their various
> publishers to treat the readerships in various countries as 
> if they were 2 year olds -- that's the decision of each individual 
> publisher/editor. 

The Dutch have the following policy:
It appears that most parents read the DD comic too, and even that *they*
mostly buy the comics (for their children, so to say).
So the Dutch editor always puts a lead story in the comic that's attractive
to the 'older' reader (age 14, 15 and higher).
Not only the story should be good, but also the artwork (and that's where
Rosa stories don't pass the test...). The rest of the comic is filled
with stories and gags for younger children.

Hm.. sounds a bit like Norway...

> Too bad all the Egmont publishers aren't as good as the Norwegian and
> Finnish ones. The Danish 
> one doesn't seem too bad, but that Swedish one seems to have no regard for
> the readers (doing such things as printing my "Life of 
> $crooge" series beginning with chapter 3 and not caring that the whole
> shebang will not make much sense to anyone as a result). 

Well, Swedish list members: do the Life of Scrooge series make sense to
you when you haven't read parts 1 and 2?

> 	Oh, and I don't think anyone needs to worry (if they ARE) any longer
> about what being connected to this Internet is costing me! 

That's good news!

--Harry.

Harry Fluks                      ()_()     Dutch Disney comics freak
PTT Research, Leidschendam (NL)   (_)      H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl 
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