Posted by Roseann at dhcp157199.holycross.edu on February 09, 2000 at 20:36:43:
Dear Kevin,
I was planning on mailing a letter to your NJ office, but I just have a feeling it's six of one & half a dozen of another whether you'll read this post or read a typed letter.
I want to thank you for directing such a great movie as Dogma. I received 16 years of education in religious institutions including the now closed South Catholic High School of Hartford, CT (we were the Rebels and used the Stars & Bars as our flag), and 4 years at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, the heart of the commonwealth. Dogma spoke to pretty much all the mythology of my religious upbringing, and I was very impressed by your credits at the end to the Sister who taught you.
You write movies, you write comic books and I was wondering if you could help me open the comicbook market up to young people again. I learned to read and understand science reading Superman, Supergirl, Lois Lane, Spiderman (my brother was a member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society). Today's comics either are too racy for an 8 year old and often never finish the story in one book (which I think is worse). I'm not that old, but I'd pay $5.00 for 3 good stories in a trilogy (what used to be 25 cents).
There are a lot of kids out there that aren't learning the joys of following a story frame by frame, page by page. Their experience is usually in a videogame, and ya just can't savor the images in a videogame. Comics need to be sold in more places than comicbook stores -- they need to be near the candy and more good comics need to be stocked.
Kevin, if you have any thoughts on how we can change comic distribution, I'd be appreciative. Thanks for all your fine work, and good luck with your lecture at UMASS in a few weeks.
Oh, and thank you for profiling the Johnny 7 OME in Dogma. I happen to be one girl who fought like hell to get the "7 guns in one" as a present -- even though my parents kept asking, "Why do you want a gun with 7 guns?" That commercial was one of the coolest commericals I ever saw, and the gun was pretty neat too-- until I lost all the bullets, and the grenades, etc. etc. etc.
Good luck with everything... you have some fine people working with you.. I can see that.
Sincerely,
Roseann Fitzgerald
Worcester, MA