[Publib] On Books

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Ray Bradbury in today's Wall Street Journal:
 
"I learned to read through the comic strips in the daily paper and the  
Sunday paper. When I was three I fell in love with the Chicago Examiner comics.  
When I was nine, Buck Rogers came into the world in October 1929 and sent me  
into the future. …I have all of Buck Rogers put away. Then I fell in love with  
Prince Valiant and moved back into the past. I wrote a love letter to Harold  
Foster, who created Prince Valiant and the Tarzan Sunday funnies, and he sent 
me  back some original Prince Valiant boards. I still have them.  
I've always believed in illustrations. I have my own comic books,  
adaptations of my short stories that are word for word. If you keep the images  and the 
words, it's okay. The children will read them and say, 'I've got to read  the 
book.' It's a start. When comics are good and honest and word for word,  
there's nothing wrong with them. They can make you jump up and down and run off  to 
the library." 
M. McGrorty
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