<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Rich Bellacera wrote:<BR>
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>Argh! Now it will be longer than ever before all those old <BR>
>Bill Walsh,<BR>
>Floyd Gottfredson, Al Taliaferro, Merrill de Maris, etc. <BR>
>strips ever<BR>
>see print again! Not only do you have to fight for <BR>
>decensorship, but<BR>
>pay EXTRA for licensing... *sigh*<BR>
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I'd love to see Fantagraphics reprint some of the old strips you mentioned; I've been pleased with the comic strip reprints they've produced so far. Unfortunately, last I heard, the company was in financial trouble, but that might have been taken care of already. I don't know.<BR>
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Also, I can't see Disney giving up a license to such an obscure, "independent" company. Gemstone is just about as "unobscure" as you can get without being Marvel or DC.<BR>
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>I wonder if Disney has created a seperate licensing fee for <BR>
>each film<BR>
>too, so we will never (thankfully) see Captain Hook in a <BR>
>Mickey Mouse<BR>
>comic without the comicbook publisher having purchased the <BR>
>Peter Pan<BR>
>license first? :-)<BR>
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Perhaps that would explain why the television with "Zorro" playing on it was changed to "El Pollo" in the Gemstone version of "The Three Caballeros"?<BR>
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Just a thought.<BR>
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Dane</FONT></HTML>