Rewriting

[Gary Leach]

Francesco,

> But Scarpa (like Barks or Gottfredson) can't be made "more  
> entertaining" than he already is.

Maybe not, but the English scripts that we wind up with for Scarpa's  
stories haven't always measured up. I don't recollect offhand if he  
was facile with English, but I remember a couple of stories of his  
back in the Gladstone days that came to us with English scripts that  
read like painfully literal translations. That approach can crush the  
life out of a story, dialogue-wise. In cases like that it almost  
makes more sense to write a whole fresh script just based on what can  
be perceived in the art. (That's not something we actually ever did,  
but sometimes the temptation was very strong. The same holds true  
today.)

> This pretty much sums it up. Your (Gemstone's) work on his stories  
> is very good... almost perfect. I think there's nothing wrong if I  
> want to spur you into eliminating that "almost" and making it  
> perfect, is there?

Nothing at all wrong with that.

Gary
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