<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 7/13/2003 11:05:28 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">Just speaking for Germany, I suppose that roughly 0,05% (40.000 of 80<BR>
million inhabitants) do know who Walt Kelly was.<BR>
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no offense, but any of us can make up satistics<BR>
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your argument however is that Kelly is not well known there to the general public because his work was not mass-marketed there - is likely (if his work was indeed not mass-marketed there). I know he appeared in Italy in LINUS.<BR>
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almost nobody in the usa knows who Herge is either<BR>
this doesnt lessen his importance <BR>
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steven rowe</FONT></HTML>