<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 7/13/2003 10:49:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, cord@wiljes.de writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">IMO Kelly can and should be recognized as one of the giants of the field. But today he is no longer popular with the general public.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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of course, <BR>
here in the USA when you are dead your popularity plumets...(with a handful of exceptions in the perfoming arts - the usa audience only likes modern things) <BR>
and Kelly has been dead for several decades - and he didnt do tons of liscencing work to keep his characthers alive....<BR>
this still doesnt dimish his enormous popularity then, and the still there fanbase he has <BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">But then how could he? The Fantagraphics edition is out of print and foreign editions of his works are scarce probably because his humor is difficult to translate. Only very few of his strips have been printed here in Germany.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> even worse: the Simon and Shuster books are all out of print --<BR>
(and some of the Fantagraphics books may still be in print)<BR>
the Fantagraphics were just small potatoes in terms of sales and more importantly distribution through book stores. Its possible that the number of S&S books available used is all the market can bear ....thus making it unlikely for new reprints of those books<BR>
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on the other hand, his record album is back in print and available - through Amazon and the other usual outlets <BR>
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Hey Don Rosa, can we expect a musical CD from you???<BR>
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steven rowe<BR>
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