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<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT
color=#000000>Steven Rowe wrote:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT
color=#000000>> Hard to believe that some folks on this list (or is
it just one folk?) </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT
color=#000000>> believe that "Walt Kelly" is an unimportant
artist. In the USA, Kelly </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT
color=#000000>> is generally considered one of the greatest comic strip
artists of the </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT
color=#000000>> 20th Century ---</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In our
(German) list of the best comics Walt Kelly is on place 35 (of
100):</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.top100comics.de/single_book.php?rank=35">http://www.top100comics.de/single_book.php?rank=35</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>On the
list the readers voted Kelly is only on place 450 (of
700):</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.top100comics.de/comicvoting_centum.php">http://www.top100comics.de/comicvoting_centum.php</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>To
this readers' list not only Germans but many international visitors
(expecially from the U.S.) contributed, so I suppose it can be called
international (with the exception of Asia).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=910463214-13072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Cord</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>