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Posted on September 1, 2010 - by Gary Applegary
The Great Green Vs. Purple War (1984)
The 14 year-old author of "Green Vs Purple".. I LOVED that velour shirt! And the fine toupee!
Hope you enjoy! I didn’t seem to put a lot of work into the cover illustration, or illustrations in general, to be honest! I can remember scrounging up, then using up, every green and purple felt tip marker I could find for this project. Hope it was worth the effort…
The Cover! I tried not to blow anybody away right away.. you have to lead up to these things...
NEXT came the credit page; I seemed to think this story needed it. As you can see, I gave myself quite a bit of credit.
To be honest, I really don’t remember the production or editing processes, or the copyrighting, for that matter. But hey, I DID dedicate it to baby brother! That was nice. Okay, on with THE STORY! (With limited interruptions.. OH! And subtitles! Oh boy!)
(Deep in the corner of the universe... There is a small planet known as Delta X2M.
This is planet Delta X2M. Half of the planet is green. The other half is purple.
On the green side live the Greens. On the purple side live the Purples.
The Greens are very happy.
The Purples are very happy. BUT....
AUTHOR’S NOTE: There’s always got to be a “BUT,” doesn’t there?
Purples hate Greens. And..... Greens hate Purples. This caused a lot of problems.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: WHAP!
Sometimes a Purple would wander to the Green side of the planet. OR....
A Green might wander over to the Purple side.
The Greens would all throw things at the Purple on their side.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Naughty Greens! CLUNK!
The Green on the Purple side would get mean things done to him.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Naughty Purples, too! Sheesh!
Posted on August 16, 2010 - by Gary Applegary
A Public Service Announcement From Lil’ Gary
SMILE! GOOD FOOD WILL GIVE YOU GOOD TEETH!
GOOOOOOOOD TEETH!
Of course, if you haven’t got teeth to begin with, this rule doesn’t apply, sorry.
Posted on August 16, 2010 - by Gary Applegary
Drawings from Wayback…
First, a couple explanations:
1) Never took any drawing or art courses. (You DON’T SAY!)
2) I have never been able to draw much of anything without having an example of it to look at. So if the picture is giraffes, say, rest assured I looked up giraffes in every encyclopedia and magazine I could find, so I could draw the various poses.
3) I was raised with 2 other brothers and not a very big budget for art supplies. Thus, a lot of stuff is on the back of forms my Dad brought home from the School Board that would have been tossed, or on notebook paper, etc. We learned to make use of what we had, and that was cool!
Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
Giraffes.. you KNEW there'd be giraffes!
Our Boston Terrier, Mollie, she was great! She chewed on my ears a lot, but I deserved it.
I vividly recall my next picture. I had an orange flyer from the mail with a blank side, and knew I had to take advantage of it. I also knew I couldn’t ruin it, since there wouldn’t be anymore orange paper. SO, I drew Daffy on notebook paper, colored him in, cut him out, and pasted it on the flyer. (With mixed results.) Ta da!
"Thithhhh ithhhhh dithhhhh-picable!"
When Rocky III came out in 1982, I was still Lil’ Gary, trust me. I snipped a pic out of the newspaper and TRIED to duplicate it… again, with mixed results…
I know what you’re thinking: “DONNIE OSMOND was in Rocky III?!?!”