RE Digest #320

[Mattias Hallin]

DON:

	I checked with Stefan Dios -- he says that Lo$ 12 isn't so much cancelled 
as postponed. It seems that certain editors at the SWEDISH Egmont branch, 
Serieforlaget, don't pertickerly care for your work, in pertickler dey don' 
pertickerly care for Lo$ nor for the 60th birthday story. The latter actually HAS 
been cancelled altogether for publication in Sweden, but Stefan says his editors 
says they DO intend to publish Lo$ 12 here in Seden, too -- only they're waitin' 
for winter "since it's set at Christmas"; for whatever that argument is worth. So 
what they do is break their SCHEDULE for publishing Lo$.

It seems their main reasons for disliking your work has nothing whatever to do 
with your particular kinda art, but rather that they feel you're aiming too high, 
beyond the severly limited intellectual capacaities of the poor little kiddies. 
That I think this so much hogwash, I shouldn't have to point out, I hope?! I've 
yet to meet a kid who liked being treated like an imbecille, or even worse, being 
TALKED DOWN TO by an adult, not to mention by the so-called childrens 
entertainment that same adult is using as a pry-bar to make the kid part with that 
week's allowance.

Actually I think it's just exactly the other way round -- lit. hist. proves 
beyond doubt that almost all children's entertainment that lasted beyond last 
morning's bowl of Oatsie-Woatsies was of the kind that WAS/IS too deep for that 
selfsame kid to fathom entirely, and that does hold entertainment and/or other 
values even to adults who didn't grow up on it (the entertainment I mean -- not 
the Oatsie-Woatsies!!!).

Anyway, also the Swedish publication of Lo$ 11 ended with the caption "To be 
continued" -- or words to that effect. So I don't think there's reason to panic 
just yet!

All my best!

Mattias

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