Rosa's shrinking producktion (again)

[Fluks, H.W.]

> From: Don Rosa [mailto:donrosa at iglou.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:37 PM

[to my and Kriton's statements]
> Er... both of these statements are either incorrect or are not stated
> clearly.

I had indeed some trouble expressing what I meant.

> for example, In Holland they always
> print the wrong 3-part version of the story in one piece, 
> with the annoying
> and inexplicable half-page splashes suddenly interrupting the 
> plot

One comfort may be that they do that for *all* stories. We Dutch have been
used to this kind of stories for decades. They started this when they
reprinted Murry sequences as 1 story, in the 70s.

> the Dutch editors don't tell their readers the
> names of the people who write and draw the stories anyway

Except in the OOM DAGOBERT albums, where your name is mentioned in the
editorials...

> But ALL of these problems are so easily avoided since the 
> publishers only
> need to send me an e-mail when they have a problem

The Dutch editors (at least) are still not used to corresponding by e-mail
with foreigers. For instance, most communication with the Spanish studios is
done by fax...

> Now
> they have thankfully loosened that structure up so I can make two part
> stories rather than 3-parters, with each part being whatever 
> length needed
> for the plot, and with the page length being anywhere up to 
> 25-30 pages

I'm still dreaming of enlarged versions of some of your older stories. Every
time you expanded a story, it was a real improvement. I'd love to buy comic
albums ("graphic novels") with 44-page Rosa stories in them. And lots of
other people might too...

--Harry.