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| TRIBBLES ARE PEOPLE TOO by BAL O'FURR (GARRY DASHNER) | ||||||||||||
| I used to belong to a STAR TREK club. I used to go to the SCI-FI conventions, etc. I saw a TRIBBLE cartoon in an ST fanzine that showed two TRIBBLES. But they looked like haystacks and not too real. In the Summer of 1980, I decided to come up with my own TRIBBLE cartoons. Mine were much smaller and more identifiable than those earlier big ones. I decided to give them speech and have a male and female gender, including adult and kid TRIBBLES to make them more easily identifiable to the reader. I also put them them in human situations so the sense of humor portrayed would be more understandable. Since they are just balls of fur, which is where I got my pen name BAL O'FURR, I needed to separate male from female. A female TRIBBLE wears a hair ribbon. Usually, married TRIBBLES wear a black hair ribbon. I'm going to show some of the cartoon strips I drew that inspired many scenes in movies, TV, TV ads and comic strips. Just like in LUNG FU, I've never been given credit nor compensation for the ideas that people got from me. I'm not the greatest cartoonist in the World, but that's the way I wanted it to be. I wanted to show that an ordinary person could be creative and successful without having to be a professional. My talent doesn't rest in my drawing ability, but in my creative writing. I'm not going to let anybody tell me my cartoons aren't any good. WALT DISNEY was once told by the KANSAS CITY STAR newspaper that his cartoons weren't good enough. His cartoon advertising business failed. He was broke and the only possession he had was a camera. He went door to door with the camera taking pictures and selling family photographs. When he saved enough money, he sold the camera to buy a railroad ticket to join his brother in CALIFORNIA. I think we all know what happened next. If it hadn't been for some near-sighted unimaginative people at the STAR, DISNEYLAND might have been built in KANSAS CITY. The next time somebody tells you that you have no talent, remember this: AMATEURS built the ARK and PROFESSIONALS built the TITANIC. Hope you enjoy the cartoons. | ||||||||||||
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| "It never fails. Two glasses of Saurian brandy and George starts dancing with the lamp shade on his head!" | ||||||||||||
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| TOP: "They say it's better than T.V." BOTTOM: "If we can't pedal or steer; what are we doing on this thing?" |
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| 1) "Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" 2) "I wish you'd quit knocking over flower pots. This is the third time this week!" |
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| "I don't care if you do belong to the WILLIAM SHATNER fan club; you'll have to go to the rear of the line and wait your turn like everyone else!" | ||||||||||||
| "Oh, dear! You look so cute in that skirt!" "It's a kilt sweetheart. JIMMY (JAMES DOOHAN-SCOTTIE), if you only knew what I go through for you!" |
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| "Do you think we're ready to play the Russians?" (A few months later the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the U.S.S.R. for the Gold Medal) |
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| I don't care if you do belong to the William Shatner Fan Club; you'll have to go to the rear of the line and wait your turn like everyone else! | ||||||||||||
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| "Doctor, come quick! My husband just swallowed his bagpipes!" | ||||||||||||