Gianfranco:

> The Italian stories are normally worldwide republished... And the story you
> mean was just ONE of a few sponsorized stories (art by Giorgio Cavazzano)
> about all the kind of problems children may have with adults (not only
> child-abuse). The sponsor was "il Telefono Azzurro", a well known humanitary
> organization that helps children in Italy, giving them the opportunity to
> use a special telephone number to contact specialized people who can help 
> them.

I think this story was named "Bornetelefonen" in Denmark. At least Borne- 
telefonen, a Danish organization similar to il Telefono Azzurro, was mentioned 
by name, but I don't remember any comment outside the story itself..

> So, you see, this is not the case of "alcohol, cigarettes, wolf-eating pigs,
> sex" and so on. These were stories made for a noble cause. Probably, when
> re-printed, there were not the explanation pages on "il Telefono Azzurro"
> that were on Topolino (the Italian weekly magazine).
> In Italy we make, from time to time, stories dedicated to (or sponsorized
> by) humanitary organizations: for the handicapped people, the World Wildlife
> Fund and so on. And the publishers who reprint them, evidently, are not so
> much interested to the humanitary organizations which originated the 
> stories...

I remember the WWF story about illegal trade with animals. It's a nice story. 
Also in this case there wasn't any comments outside the story.

> :-(

No need for that as I see it!
Does the other publishers, like Egmont, get the text about the sponsoring 
organisations together with the story? If there isn't a similar organisation 
in the country where the story is reprinted, it can be difficult to give a 
usefull explanation alongside the story.

Greetings,
                     Jacob Sparre Andersen.
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A Faroese student, far far away from home
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URL's: "mailto:sparre@cats.nbi.dk", "http://fys.ku.dk/~sparre".
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