Ugly duckling seeks kind home

[Fredrik Ekman]

Even wrote:
> Here is a tale of woe.
> 
> Some weeks before Christmas I was in London.
> 
[Long sad story about finding Arabian Disney comics in London deleted]

Yeah. That sounds just like London.

I was there last summer, and one of the first things I stumbled upon
was some issue of a weekly Mickey Mouse that featured not only "The
Bees Have It" by William Van Horn, but also one of Jippes' re-drawn
JW stories. However, the only copy at that store was quite battered,
so I decided to find a better one.

Really stupid idea.

For three whole days I searched. Well, I didn't ONLY do that, but
whenever I passed a store that seemed even remotely likely to carry
Disney mags, I dived in to check them out. Even at the comic department
of Virgin Megastore (one of the very few comic shops I found) they
only had the Gladstone albums. And when I finally did find another
English Mickey, it was a new issue. No Van Horn. No Jippes.

And this leads me to a question to our English member: How on earth
can them Fleetway, or whatever their name, survive in a country where
noone sells their comics? Why, judging from my own experiences, this
even seemed worse than US! In the US, there will at least BE a comic
shop somewhere along the road. And, most probably, somewhere in that
comic shop there will be a few Disneys in some dusty corner. But in
England, I didn't even see that.

  /F