Anybody else remember…
Monster-of-the-Week:
…this week’s honoree, Gork, The Monster Who Everything?
Back in 1973, one of my awesome nieces sent me this beautiful poster, created
by veteran childrens’ book illustrator Dominic Catalano and sold by the
Scholastic Book Service. It hung on my wall for years. Never the monster freak
that I was/am, she nonetheless told me that because of this poster the word “Gork”
enjoyed a brief vogue at her school as a mild aspersion, as in “The guys in my
class are a bunch of gorks."
Anyway, my poster was lost in the shuffle somewhere over the
decades, so I was delighted to find the slightly worse-for-the-wear specimen above
on eBay recently, for just a buck!
