Disney-comics digest #255.

[Don Rosa]

CHRIS LAWTON:
(and Darin Reid):
	Whoaa!!! Easy! I apologize if something in my wording made it
sound like I was trying to "pick on" you (Chris)!!!  I would never
suggest that a "Disney comic fan" had to fit a certain mold. I would
never suggest that fans of the Italian Disneys are not "Disney comics
fans" simply because they are so different from the Dell style. I would
never suggest the same about fans of other Disney comics that seem
off-the-mark of what I grew up on. Fergoodnesssake, I constantly marvel
at why people like MY stories as they look like nothing, artwise, that's
ever been accepted as Disney style comics!
	What I was trying to express to Chris is my surprise that the
first he ever knew of Disney comics, and still he says most of what he
knows of Disney comics, were the Roger Rabbit and Mickey Mouse stories
from Disney-Disney. It's near unanimous around the planet that those
Disney-Disneys had far more in common with Marvels than Disneys, and
that's why Disney fans didn't take to them -- and it was the Roger
Rabbits and the Wolfman Mice that were the ones furthest off the mark.
I'm not trying to be rude in saying that I find it odd that one would
be attracted to Disney by those particular tales. I still feel quite
certain that if someone had a strong liking for Disney-Disney's Mickey,
and that (as Chris says) he's never read any other comics, he will find
that Marvel comics or DC's CAPTAIN CARROT and such will turn out to be
far more similar to what he likes than are any Disney comic. And if he
has a love of Roger Rabbit, it would be DC's new Warner Brothers comics
and old MGM cartoons he should be tracking down -- he may waste a lot
of time trying to find Disney comics that have the same spirit as Roger
Rabbit when he should be looking elsewhere. As I said, and as I am sure
is an absolute fact, Roger Rabbit is a tribute to all that is NOT
Disney... it's an imitation of Tex Avery style humor. I have a "vault"
filled with 35,000 other comics than my Disney issues -- it is
completely acceptable if someone likes comics other than Disneys! I do!
I'm not trying to be rude to someone who is claiming to have little
knowledge of comics when I suggest to them that I think they have been
"lead astray" possibly in what they are going to spend their time on
when the evidence to my eyes suggests there are other types of comics
that should be far closer to their liking. 
	I hope people aren't placing me in a position that every word I
say to anyone on here must be glowingly positive, and that anytime I
disagree with someone I am "being rude" to them. I have opinions, too,
and I plan on expressing them to one and all. We're all equal here, and
I'm sure as heck no more or less equal than anyone else. I'll aplogize
if I ever seem to be picking on someone -- but I won't apologize for
the opinions.