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En Garde, whole no. 7, September 1943

Page 10

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page 10. boom, boom, went the cannon, but he never could get the knack of aiming them. He kept missing the boxes and spilling rice all over the place. So much rice scattered about had a suggestive effect on the female help. The boss decided he would miss the gals a great deal more than Walt. On the other hand, putting corrugations in MUFFETS crought sympathetic wrinkles in Walt's brow. So he decided he wouldn't miss MUFFETS. Rolling CORN FLAKES turned out to be a lot of fun. Walt grew quite enthusiastic. In fact, he was soon rolling them in the aisles. But the Kellogg Company is very strict about sanitation, and such goings-on didn't come up to their standards. Again Walt rolled on to a new job. They were getting harder to find, but after a long search he finally got a tryout at punching holes in CHEERI*OATS----only to discover that he had lost his punch. Walt wanted work, but the wresults were wowsy! ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (@) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) GENTLEMEN ---- THE COVER Any attempt to avoid too much repitition of color schemes on NOVA PRESS covers must inevitably run into trouble. After exhausting the usual and obvious color combinations, one turns to color chords of a minor nature. Many of these can prove exceedingly effective, but---there are strange pitfalls for the unwary. For the cover on this issue of En Garde, we conceived the notion that pink, grey, and touch of red would make a good combination. Well,we sprayed the pink first. But when we got to the grey and red we found we had failed to achieve quite the effect desired. It was almost but not quite. Then, to our dismay, we discovered that no other two colors that were usable worked out even as good with the pink. Did any of you ever speculate as to just what combination of colors would reach the ultimate nauseating effect? We often have, and the conclusion we reached was that nothing could be more utterly utter than pink, green, and purple. The circumstances being what they were, we couldn't resist doing the cover you have doubtless already retched over. Now what we want to know is how does that combination affect the rest of fandom? Are there other combinations to which you would react more violently? Or do we all react the same? It will be interesting to find out. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [a B/W drawing of a cobra-looking asp coiled over a rock] ASP
 
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