Strip Reprints--It's worked for Peanuts and Garfield

[Marvinw]

The main thread regarding the Gemstone Cancellations has been the call for more new stories--mainly of Egmont origin-- and /or the call for more old stories-- primarily of Western Printing origin but also some of the King Features Gottfredson stories. 
The general consensus, however is that present Disney comics will remain a small niche market within the world of english language comics. 
There is a fear that even with new titles there may be an implosion as with the Disney Comics of the 1990's or worse a total cessation that occured with Gladstone II.
Available for many years with wide sales and usually prominently displayed in bookstores are the large number of volumes of reprints, both B/W and colorized, of the daily newspaper gag-a-day strips of the popular and well known comic characters of Peanuts and Garfield (but I doubt as popular and well known as Mickey and  Donald).
There is a vast reserve of King Features Disney daily strips just "itching" to be reprinted. If volumes of these were also widely sold, advertisements within could call the attention to and whet appetites for WDC&S and other Disney comics.
Dark Horse Comics has recently taken a fairly big bite of the Disney comics field. They have had issues of The Incredibles as well as now the classic Gremlins characters--following a beautiful reprint of the original Disney/Dahl book.
Also Disney Press has reentered the comic book field with several issues that they refer to as Junior Graphic Novels.  
However, if at all possible, I would expect and hope that Gemstone would consider the reprint of the daily strips, and particularly with the motivation of Mr.Geppi to explore new channels to revitalize pop culture. 
Marvin Winitz
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