Education Hearings Leave Faculty "Dizzy"
Article by Duncan McDuff, exclusive to the Gazette.

ACME LOONIVERSITY (APew) - Faculty members at Acme Looniversity concluded hearings today on Dizzy Devil's right to ethnic-sensitive language education.

Professor Taz, Dizzy's mentor, has been teaching "Devilspeak" for years at Acme Loo, albeit with a limited roster of one, with no censure. The controversy began last month when Dizzy insisted on launching a tutoring program to promote his own Tazmanian dialect, the recently dubbed "Me-bonics."

"Me want give all toons chance to speak like Dizzy!" said Dizzy at a press conference at his cave earlier this month. "Me not see what so bad about that!" he added, before spinning into a frenzy and demolishing the reporters' equipment.

In a recent statement Professor Taz spoke out in support of his pupil:"Narawroovf eegkag miraveef Dizzy sphttbbth!"

Others have been less embracing of the Me-bonics Program. "It simply is not proper grammar," noted Bookworm, custodian of the Acme Loo Library. And through a series of complex diagrams Egghead Jr. demonstrated how widespread acceptance of Me-bonics could seriously degrade international communications and bring about the collapse of civilization as we know it.

Local zillionaire Montana Max was heard to join the outcry:"I'd better not find my tax dollars going to some lame language class that I don't even speak! Maybe I'll have to buy Tazmania!"

But a greater majority of Dizzy's classmates seem to support his idea. "Hey, this is Acme Acres!" said Buster Bunny at the education hearings. "You can count the characters that talk completely normal around here on one four-fingered paw!"

Class valedictorian Babs Bunny agreed, spinning into several classic Looney Tunes characters to testify:"[Sylvester] You've never stheen Furrball's sthpeech sthuffer from my yearsth of sthcooling, have you? [Foghorn] Or maybe, ahsay, maybe some cotton-pickin' knowitall has it in his head to oust Professor Porky next! Or Elmer Fudd!"

After hearing all sides Principal Bugs Bunny conferred briefly with his faculty, whereupon he announced the Looniversity's decision. "What we got here, docs, is a failure to communicate. Whoops, wrong story! What we got here is a matter of freedom of expression voisus educational standards. Dere's no doubt we all have our special way of talking, and dat's part of what gets us woik in showbiz. So we've agreed that Dizzy has da right to tutor anyone who's interested in Me-bonics. But...on his own time. When school's in session we teach da King's English!"

"Hey, y'all leave me outta this, yahear?" Elvis was heard to say from the back of the auditorium.

Amid cheers of praise Dizzy spun from the room to meet reporters. "Me so happy!" he exclaimed. "Me hope toons stay after school and learn talk like Dizzy! Then me have everyone over to my place for pizza rolls!"

"Me like pizza rolls!" said Hamton Pig as he enrolled for Dizzy's class. Plucky Duck signed up next, adding, "So do I! Er, uh...ME, too!"

Mystery Negotiator Makes World Leaders Play Nice!

The State of TTA Fanfic
by Kevin Mickel (HKUriah3@AOL.com)

For reasons that should be obvious to most readers, I feel that fanfic is a good way to gauge the activity and enthusiasm of fans, and I have to say that over the past year and a half, the activity level of fans has increased dramatically. Before I started my fanfic mailing list there were some 29 TTA fanfics in existance that had been written over the previous few years. In the little over a year since then and as of March of '97, 45 new fanfics have been added, more than doubling the total to 74. About all I can say is, I think that's great. The realm of fanfic has exploded, and I'd like to think that I and my mailing list have had something to do with that.

So, what would I like to see happening in the fanfic realm in the future? Well, I'd really like to see more fanfic-inspired artwork. I think it would be a fantabulous development if the various talented TTA artists out there would, from time to time, say, "Gee, I liked that scene in this story so much that I'm gonna draw a picture based upon it." So far, this has not happened in great numbers. Outside of the Montages that I have commissioned and artwork done by the stories' authors, fanfic art is still rather rare. Hopefully, this will change as time goes by. Along the same lines, I'd like to see someone tackle the task of fully illustrating an entire fanfic, ala what KeV Beeley and Floyd Yancey are doing and have done for BGTUR. There's a lot of great fanfic out there that would look great illustrated, and hopefully sooner or later, one of our many talented artists will take up the challenge.

Finally, for the benefit of anyone who might not know about it, I'll say a few words about my fanfic mailing list. In a nutshell, once a month I send out a package of all new fanfic and fanfic related art, along with a lengthy message that includes information about general TTA happenings that I have learned about, and an interview with a fanfic author. In between these "Monthly Mailings" we talk about the stuff that was in them, and about TTA in general. All fans of Tiny Toons are welcome to join. If you are interested, drop me a line at HKUriah3@AOL.com, and I'll sign you up.

As a companion to the mailing list, I've set up a homepage archive for TTA fanfic and fanfic art. It can be found at http://members.aol.com/HKUriah, and you will find just about every fanfic ever written archived there. I'm always eager to hear what people think of the place, which in spite of its no-frills design, does garner its fair share of praise.

The View From The Catbox
by Furrball

The Birth Of A Notion

It started with an idea. Somebody in the Tiny Toons Fanfic Mailing List wondered what happened to all the peripheral characters (you know, Concorde, Sweetie, Barky Marky, Byron Bassett, Mary Melody; the characters from Tiny Toon Adventures that we never see as much as the "lead" characters.) And then one member came up with a newspaper item about Byron Bassett. (The same one you probably read on page one, if you were paying attention). And that's all it took. Yours truly wondered what a whole newspaper of such items, with various stories and such written by the list members, would look like.

If you've gotten this far, obviously you've found out.

I have plenty of plans for the good ol' Acme Gazette. For instance, in September, our big "Get Back To School! NOW!!" issue (in honor of the new school year at Acme Looniversity); more screengrabs; and a few other things I can't divulge because (a) I haven't thought of anything yet, (b) Neither have our writers, or (c) All of the above. But stick with us, folks. We can only get better, and funnier.

After all, I'm willing to bet the first issue of the Wall Street Journal was nothing to look at, either. It certainly wasn't as funny.

See you after the end credits.

"Furrball! 8{)"
Your friendly neighborhood Editor-In-Chief, The Acme Gazette.