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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Jonathan, quoting me:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>>>>> <FONT size=2>I'm sure the comics would be
more endurably appealing to casual readers</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>>>>> if you tried to return
to the kind of stories Gladstone used to run,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>>>>> rather than print such new
stories, believing that their being contemporary</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>>>>> (cell phones, computers,
future world biker Mickey, ...)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>>>>> makes them more alluring.
The truly good stories are never outdated.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Jonathan's reply:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>>>> True, but remember also: Endless
reprints are NOT a good thing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh no, I didn't mean reprints. I was referring to
the *kind* of stories I said I liked, produced by
Gutenbergus.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Incidentally, I also preferred Vicar's style at that
time.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Is there some sort of rule, or is it just a trend,
that many artist (well, too many to my taste) "roundify" the Ducks that much?
It's hard to explain, but toughly, the idea is that the beak's corner ir a round
bubbly thing; Cavazzano is doing that, Vicar is doing it in his own way (whereas
his style was more model sheet, like so many Gutenberghus artists), others are
doing it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Do they think it's "cute" (and less "agressive" than
"angles")?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial>Olivier</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>