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Subject:Re: comics From:Beverly Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:38:46 MST
Richard Dimock <red -at- ELSEGUNDOCA -dot- ATTGIS -dot- COM> wrote the following
at the end of an interesting story:
> There is also a problem with humor that I had unknowingly
> stumbled against. Advertising people know it well.
> It's only funny the first time.
> So maybe use humor in a read-once-then-toss kind of document.
> Otherwise, use it very sparingly.
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This is excellent advice, *especially* when considering a comic
book approach. The PS preventive maintenance magazine is usually
read and disposed of. I've never run into anyone with a shelf
full of them for reference.
While I'm here, I want to add a small clarification to my
description of PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly. I said it
was done entirely in comic book format. Well, it does also
contain paragraph text, but it is so intermingled with the comic
book drawings and balloon text that just fanning through one
your first impression is definitely of a comic book.
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