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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gary:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>>>>> It is my understanding, though, that there are
restrictions</DIV>
<DIV>>>>> on some of the earliest strips, due to their
content.</DIV>
<DIV>>>>> Disney does have great enthusiasm for this project,</DIV>
<DIV>>>>> and wants to see it happen. From what I gather,</DIV>
<DIV>>>>> and for what it's worth, they're as disappointed as we
are</DIV>
<DIV>>>>> that there are some strips they just can't see their
way</DIV>
<DIV>>>>> to allowing to be reproduced.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>:(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I almost wrote "how come they can allow
'contrversial' animated shorts to be released on DVD, but cannot allow similar
strips to be reprinted?", but then, I suppose the print & video media are
two very separate branches.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The release of those animated features, with
Leonard Maltin's introductions, was extremeley improtant in itself, and because
it meant the same could be done with the strips (with special
notes).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's a terrible shame.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Even though there *wre* stereotypes, they never
served a racist ideology.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Company's policy on this subject is rather
incoherent, anyway: "The Phantom Blot" can be reprinted, even though one might
also argue that the stereotype of the Irish police officers is incorrect,
especially as they are shown to be incompetent. Will the stereotypical Italian
fruit vendors in several stories have their dialogue changed to proper English
so as not to vex Italians?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aren't they aware that this can only foster the
illegal distribution of scans of those stories?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Moreover, even though the art was altered in some
stories, all of Barks' stories have been published, including the only two
rejected ones (Donald the milkman and the delightful "Silent
Night").</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The adventures set in stereotypical Africa have
been reprinted several times; will the Disney Company ban them now and prohibit
their reprinting in comics or a new Barks Library, or will they make an
exception for Barks?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is most unfair to Gottfredson.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One might also argue that the Disney Company is
actually perpetuating the very stereotypical superiority of Whites over
Blacks by preventing the latter to read stories they would find offending
because they are not cultivated or intelligent enough to understand the context
and see they are often pretty harmless.</FONT></DIV>
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