I used to belong to a "Star Trek" club. I used to go to the Sci-Fi conventions in the Kansas City, Missouri area. I saw a "Tribble" carton in a Star Trek fanzine that showed two Tribbles. But, they looked like haystacks, something like the first picture below, and not too real. In the Summer of 1980, I decided to come up with my own Tribble cartoons. Mine were much smaller and more identifiable than those earlier big ones. I decided to gie them speech and have a male and female gender, including adult and kid Tribbles, to make them more easily identifiable to the reader. I also put them in human situations so the sense of humor portrayed would be more understandable. Since they  are just balls of fur, which is where I got my pen name, "Bal O'Furr", I neded to separate male from female. A female Tribble wheres a hair ribbon. Usually, married Tribbles wear a black hair ribbon. I have scanned the pages of the cartoon book I made and have put them in the pictures below. Those cartoons I drew inspired many scenes in movies, TV, TV ads and comic strips. Just like in "Lung Fu", which can be found in the links at the left, I've never been given credit or compensation for the ideas that people got from me. I'm not the greates cartoonist in the World, but that'sthe way I wanted it to be. I wanted to show that an ordinary person could be creative and successful without having to be a professional. My talent doesn't rest in my drawing ability, but in my creative writing. I'm not going to let anybody tell me my cartoons aren't any good. Walt Disney was once told by " Kansas City Star" newpaper executives that his cartoons weren't good enough. is cartoon advetising business failed. He was broke and the only possession he had was a camera. He went dooor to door with the camera taking pictures and selling family phographs. When he saved enough money, he sold the camera to buy a railroad ticket to join his brother in California. I think we all know what happened next. If it hadn't been for some near-sighted, unimaginative people at the Star, Disneyland might have been bu9lt in Kansas  City. The next time somebody tells you that you have no talent, remember this: Amateurs built the Ark and Professionals built the Titanic. Hope you enjoy the cartoons.