SILLY PAGES
"Hey Ken, what do you think
we should do with this page?"
"Not sure, Ed, but whatever
it is it had better be really silly."
Part of the fun
of these pages is that you can send us submissions of single panel cartoons, jokes in a comics theme, or just silly
stuff that you think we'll like and we'll add them to the site.
You can send by e-mail, or if it's artwork and you don't have a scanner, you can mail it to;
'Nuff
Said!
WBAI-FM
120 Wall St. 10th floor
New York, NY 10005
Until recently, we hadn't added anything to this page in quite a while. In fact, almost everything else on this page was done by Ed Menje years ago; following is the first item I (Ken Gale) have added. Then there's that illustration at the end.... I welcome submissions of any kind. This doesn't only have to be our stuff.
COMICS TRIVIA AT WORK
Quite a few years ago, in an office I (Ken) worked for there was a section they put people who didn't conform or didn't kiss up enough or were discipline problems, etc. The job in that section consisted of putting paperwork in numerical order. Hundreds of sheets of paper each day. As boring a job as they could find, I think.
But morale was pretty high, a sort of camaraderie borne of our common situation. To while away the time, we would often play trivia games with each other, tossing out questions on one topic or another to see who knew the answer. We started out with movie and TV trivia then added music, sports, weird facts, American history and whatever else came to mind. I tended to do well in most topics. I have a very trivial mind, what can I say?
One morning, a co-worker announced, "I can think of a topic we haven't done!" He made us ask him what it was before he told us: "Comics!"
I started to laugh. "Oh no, we're not doing comics."
"Aha! Found something you don't know anything about, huh smart guy?"
I was still laughing. "I defy anyone in this entire building to know more about comic books than I do (not a claim I would make anywhere any time, just at that building at that time).
"Oh yeah! Oh yeah! What's Batman's real name?" (What a tough test that was!)
I calmly answered "Bruce Wayne" and he said, "You answered that quick. Okay, I believe you." I had to laugh again. What other questions was he going to ask if I had agreed to that topic?
Hours later, after lunch, the same person said to me out of the blue, "I know you're gonna know this, I just want to see how fast you answer "What is Batman's butler's name?" (his emphasis)
I quickly answered Alfred Pennyworth and his voice went up an octave, "Last name? Last name? He has a last name? You know his last name!" I decided to have fun with him and gave the details, with writer, artist and editor, of the early '70s story where he got that last name. I gave much much more detail than he could possibly have wanted to know, but I never got another ridiculously easy comic book question again. I didn't even need to tell him that Alfred had a different last name in the golden age.
Back to Ed....WELL, HOW ABOUT THIS...ONE OF A SERIES OF STRIPS I (ED) DID FOR A FRIEND'S MUSIC MERCHANDISE BUSINESS. HE ASKED ME TO DO SOME STRIPS FOR HIS ADVERTISEMENTS AND SAID THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE T SHIRTS AND STUFF, BUT JUST CATCH THE READERS TO ATTRACT THEM TO HIS TAGLINES.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
I SAW THIS PICTURE IN AN AD IN THE NY PRESS AND JUST HAD TO RUN IT HERE.
A GREAT PHOTO...TO POOP ON!
(This is Ken, again.) At the spring, 2003 Big Apple Con, our table was diagonally across from Jim Salicrups's spot (Jim's 'Nuff Said! interview was on 6-7-95). During the convention, he presented the following caricature. It's amazing what a cartoonist can do no matter what they have to work from....
This is Ken with Merlin and Baby, the Parrots for Peace, two captive-bred Blue and Gold Macaws owned by (or should I say, "who own") Gloria Waslyn. I was speaking about climate change at a Pagan Pride event in Battery Park and they were on my shoulders the whole time. Of course, I spoke about the effects of tropical rain forest destruction on global climate, but if I strayed to, say, the melting of the Arctivc ice cap, they put up quite a fuss until I went back to talking about their eco-system. Photograph by Gloria Waslyn.
I believe this is Merlin. Photograph by Gloria Waslyn.
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