Talk:National Gorilla Suit Day

Don Martin vs the gorilla suit
We probably need an article, or at least a stub for now, on National Gorilla Suit Day... it has grown past Don Martin (cartoonist)'s vision for it! 

But did it have an existence pre 1963 (when Don published his classic by the same name)? I'm skeptical, but would love to find out. It will be a bit hard to avoid WP:OR but worth it IMO. Andrewa (talk) 13:43, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Interesting... gorilla suit currently reads in part ''Gorilla suits are recognized through National Gorilla Suit Day, January 31. The holiday was concocted by MAD cartoonist Don Martin in a 1963 paperback Don Martin Bounces Back!. The most notable story in the tome revolves around a hapless fellow named Fester Bestertester, who dares to mock the concept of National Gorilla Suit Day and is thus repeatedly pummeled by gorillas. The holiday was recently promoted on comic book writer Mark Evanier's news from me blog until Don Martin's widow request that all references to the holiday be removed in late 2007.''

(I think The Hardest Head in the World in the same volume is probably a slightly better story, but if it's correct that National Gorilla Suit Day represents the invention of the term, then yes that would make NGSD the more notable story.)

We probably also need an article or section on gorillagrams. No links to that title yet, I'll wikify some articles that mention them and see where that leads. Andrewa (talk) 15:21, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

http://dir.yahoo.com/thespark/8757/national-gorilla-suit-day/ It's a day dedicated not only to simian impersonation, but also to the work of Don Martin -- also known as Mad Magazine's "Maddest Artist" -- who created the holiday. It's widely believed that the phrase National Gorilla Suit Day originated with Don Martin in the story of the same name in Don Martin Bounces Back (1963), but can we source this claim? Andrewa (talk) 15:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)