Cow-Gorilla

6Gun Gorilla don't give a $#!T

Gorillas don't know what 6Guns are for, nor do they care.

Six Gun Gorilla

Over at Whitechapel they are redesigning "Six Gun Gorilla."
So:

Crying Purple Gorilla Comix

Back in the day at DC Comics, someone in editorial (I'm not sure who, but I think it was Julius Schwartz) noticed that comics with covers featuring either (a) a gorilla (b) the color purple or (c) someone crying experienced an otherwise inexplicable boost in sales. Supposedly, these attributes were each allowed to appear on only one cover a month so as not to generate internal competition amongst the company's titles. That restraint is to be commended, but imagine the sales on an issue of Crying Purple Gorilla Comics. I mean, I'd buy it.

BTW, Alan Moore did this joke in the background of Top 10. I'm totally ripping him off.

Ook Sauce - The Secret Ingredient

...and you thought it was saffron.

Monkey - SamSam

Back when I was at Art College in the late 80s, I used to visit Edinburgh Zoo a lot to draw the animals. Specifically I wanted to draw the apes and the ape I ended up drawing the most was the alpha male Lowland Gorilla called SamSam. He was pretty laid back, sedentary, a bit overweight, so he would sit for hours while I drew his portrait. Though I was careful to avoid eye contact with him as that constitutes aggressive behavior for a Gorilla. I knew my place, he was the boss.

From those drawings I did a number of etchings and finally a 4'x6' painting of SamSam, which is still hanging in my parents house. I think it's my most successful painting.

While doing this drawing ( steel pen only , no pencil ) I Googled SamSam to find out what had happened to him. There's a thing called the Gorilla Studbook, which gives details of each of these animals lives.

This is SamSam's entry

I wasn't expecting to be quite so sad out this.