HD&L as dipshits

[Stefan Persson]

Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. wrote:

> I've got a few German Mickey Mouse magazines with HD&L on the cover. However
> there they appear very different from the straight, bright, clever and
> serious boys who Barks even made generals in The Junior Woodchucks. By
> consequently drawing HD&L with stupid caps worn backwards and wearing some
> silly modern kids clothing Ehapa has IMO turned HD&L into silly dipshits. I
> guess this is the result of a policy of mainly doing the magazine for small
> kids.

Which is actually rather strange, as they don't appear like that in the 
actual stories in the magazine.

> Luckily HD&L still have a rather serious appearance in Egmont
> publications!

Not in all Egmont publications.  For example, those German covers are 
often used by the German Egmont Ehapa and the Egmont subsections in many 
Eastern European countries.

Stefan