WDCiC 1 advertisement

David A Gerstein David.A.Gerstein at williams.edu
Sat Feb 5 21:19:29 CET 1994


	Dear Folks,

	Since I was away for some time, I've just been catching up
reading the Digests I missed.  One thing I hadn't looked at in detail
was Gary's ad copy for the CBG ad of late -- the one describing WDCiC
1, the Donald 60th-anniversary issue:

	"[The series] begins with an all-Donald 64-page issue that 
will include--no kidding!--the very first Donald Duck adventure 
produced in the comic book format!  It's being reprinted in the U.S. 
for the first time ever!"

	Largely, Gary, I praise you to the ends of the earth on this
ad.  Just the thing to get us drooling fans drooling even more than
usual ;-)  One criticism though.  In future ads you must say, "It's
being *printed* in the U. S. for the first time ever..."  The way you
have it now, it suggests that the story *has* previously seen print
here.  Some people will think that this is a reference to "Pirate
Gold" -- or worse, to merely the first Barks 10-pager, which *is* also
in the issue.  (That was printed before in various album and CBL
publications, but this will be its first COMIC-BOOK reprinting, so
that could cause confusion.)

	I have seen this kind of statement before -- for example, "We
will begin reprinting Don Rosa's "Life of Scrooge" stories" -- and for
inexperienced readers, this sounds like you're referring to things
that have been seen here already.  What you might say is, "We are
printing for the first time in the U. S. [insert name of story here]".
I dunno...

	If Gladstone wants to shout about Pedrocchi in the U. S., you
can look up the article about him in Maurice Horn's WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF COMICS.  Frederico Pedrocchi is a seminal figure in Italan comics
-- he led the "comic renaissance" as it's called there.  He gets so
much purple prose and praise in Horn's book that you can surely
recycle some of it, Gary.

	More importantly --

	WHAT WAS RoC'S COMMENT ABOUT WAR OF THE WENDIGO BEING ACCEPTED
BY DISNEY????  DID THIS HAVE BASIS IN FACT?  I didn't see the letter
from Gary that he quoted -- did I accidentally delete a digest, or
worse -- never receive one?  My system was down on Tuesday, so
maybe that indeed happened...

	Yours,

	David Gerstein
	<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>



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