DCML Digest, Vol 16, Issue 15 - CREDITS

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In a message dated 6/14/2004 10:37:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se writes:

From: "Daniel van Eijmeren" <dve at kabelfoon.nl>
Subject: Credits

Have many people do carefully read the credits after a movie is over?
Granted, the general public probably pays little attention to the production 
credits at the end of a movie, but how many went to see the movie in the first 
place because it starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman or Cary 
Grant? How many go to a movie because it was written by a particular 
screenwriter or directed by a particular director? 

RE: The Thom Roep quote elsewhere:
"The readers know that it isn’t Walt Disney who makes them, but it doesn’t 
interest them who it well does. And the real fans can see who made it .”

How could fans know who made it if there's never a name on it? If someone new 
comes along and does some good work, I like to know who it is. In a sense, 
these are the equivalent of screenwriters, actors and directors of a movie. I 
think at some point such information should be available to those who do want to 
know. I don't advocate plastering credits all over the splash panels like 
some publishers do, but having the information available to those interested is 
nice. I prefer somewhere else in the comic, like on the editor's page or letter 
page.
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