Don Rosa book

[Per Martinson]

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From: "Brigitta McDuck" <BrigittaMcDuck at go.com>

>If you handle any book or comic in the proper way, you can manage to read
everything. I believe that new readers could be discouraged by big hardcover
volumes, for the comic is often considered a "quick" reading, but I am not
intimidated by a good quality book.

What I think is that Egmont have released som many expensive hardcover-books
the last years, that you have to be (nearly) as rich as uncle Scrooge to
afford them all. I think hardcover-books may attract people who already read
Disney-comics, but a well made (but cheaper) album series even could attract
entirely new readers. I mean, you would not buy an expensive book that you
don't know about, but if you find it as a pocket-book, for maybe a tenth of
the price, maybe you would buy it to see what it is.

>I do not agree, I am afraid. It is not easy to develop new and original
stories with so "traditional" and "closed" environment. Personally, I have
loved and I have several edition of "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck",
and I think that it has helped many readers in re - discovering Disney
comics.

I think that what makes the world of Disney-ducks to what it is, is just the
thing that it has no limits and that it isn't "traditional" and "closed", so
maybe we have a little bit different wievs on it. I also think that "The
Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" may have helped many readers, at least to
re-discover Barks-comics, but, as I said, I think he could do that without
writing comics. I don't think he's a bad writer, but I don't think he is
such a good one either.

>...he cares answering our questions and debating his work. Not so many
authors are like this.

That is good, but I think that is just because he is writing in such a
donaldistic way, and also has a greater bent for donaldists.

Per Martinson