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Show Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, October 31, 1984 2A Cartoonist Uses His Ghoulish Creations for Fun CHERYL ARCHIBALD ; Review Staff Val Bagley, proBOUNTIFUL fessional cartoonist, has a fondness for spooky, creepy Halloween things and has on occasion gone to extremes to scare neighborhood kids and weak hearted adults. This year, he plans to do it up big. Trick or treaters going to his house will be tricked good. They will be greeted at the steps by two warty . ghouls, if the cemetery dont run them off first. Flashing lights, thunder and green-face- d ghosts screeches, a decomposing pair in party attire, or a coffin with a live' Dra-cul- a will probably turn them around if they have the nerve to enter his living room. Its old stuff to Bagley. He has scared his neighbors in Mission Viejo, California, with the same drawn and painted paper creatures. He spread snail shells on the sidewalk to make a crunchy sound. He offered treats from one bucket and pumpkin seed bats brains from an- -. other to give children a choice. But if they chose wrong, he consented to give them one more try. Bagley began this years ghastly scheme in .August. He gave his 2 and boys three-inc- h paint brushes and told them to paint with watered down black paint on cardboard retrieved from Charlie Fullers dumpsters. 1 hate to paint, the young explained. And they cant do it wrong. After carving the black cardboard to shape he pasted on ugly, drawn paper faces and hands. He made white butcher-papghosts and glued them to cardboard backing. And he squared cardboard into headstones, one named DRACULA with a sign hanging on it reading, Out to lunch. An electrician friend synthesized noise for an eerie sounding tape to be screeched and moaned from a speakcartoon-istfathertrickst- er er er. Q, V STANDING AMONG some of his Halloween creations, Val Bagley (hes the one in the upper left), a Bountiful cartoonist, enjoys giving trick-or-treate- a treat with rs his tricks. I grew up on Halloween. My mom just loves it," Bagley explains. We always had parties and wed have masks made of paper mache. Halloween was a big thing in California. He devoted Saturdays and other odd hours to this, his third easy, but time consuming, spooking project. And he admits that by the time its over, I get burned out. The whole thing is just another of Bagleys imaginative ideas. His wife, Marta says hes fun to be around because he sees humor in almost every situation. That ability is certainly conducive to what he does by profession-drawing cartoons. Bagleys cartoons are published regularly in the LDS Sentinel , a LDS newspaper in Arizona. Ten of his cartoons have appeared in the New Era church magazine. Of five cartoon books published, his first book, Mission Mania, was fifth in the top 20 best sellers of Horizon Publishers the year of its release. Later, Puppy Love, Very Anxiously Engaged, Newlywed Nonsense and Special Delivery gave readers a laugh at courtship and marriage. His goal is to become syndicated and Bagley has the character that just might make it for him. His character, a fat little goblin, has no name yet y and has not been published, but says the mischievous sprite is his hope for getting syndicated because hes cynical. If ever Im going to make it, this is what its going to be. Since marrying and working to support three children as art department manager at Creative Packaging Sales in Bountiful, Bagley hasnt devoted the time he once did to drawing cartoon books. Nor has he to promote his little goblin. But he says his cartoons are better now than they were in his books. He also says his style is changing as he becomes more confident. He picked up some technical style from his favorite cartoonist Charles Shultz, whose first cartoons Bagley emulated and thought to have the best humor of any cartoons. His other favoriteis Mad Magazine cartoonist Paul Coker. While in grade school, Bagley drew cartoons all the time. All through elementary school I knew I wanted to be a cartoonist." In junior high and high school his cartoons on student issues were in school papers and yearbooks. His first paid cartoon appeared in the Saddleback News in Mission Viejo, where Bagley worked as paste-u- p artist before coming to Utah. As an art major at Fullerton and Saddleback Colleges in California he was told that cartoons are childish Bag-le- had-tim- and immature. But his friends save drawings that he doesnt want to keep says Mrs. Bagley. They want to have the cartoons in case he ever makes it big. Burn Plant Permit OKd Continued From Page 1A Also in the processing stage is a contract to sell steam energy the plant produces to the base. Aa official agreement has also not, been reached on where the steafp pipe line on base will go. The'proposal is that the pipe go undr runway taxiways and over- some 50 feet of base property near its eastern boundaries, Bur- ton said. For the benefit of attending res- runs Positive indications have also idents, Richard Harvey, county environmental health director, told commission members the plant as it is proposed, would be required to meet the most stringent air quality standards in the been' received from base engineers on a proposal that an access roa( to the plant be through The county does not currently have any air quality standards, U.S.. but must conform to state and federal standards. It is the intent of the special service district that the plant meet any and all current and future air quality standards, Harvey said. The special solid waste service district was formed in September to handle and create systems of solid waste disposal in the county- The purpose of the plant is to New County Trash Board A FARMINGTON d board that will make decisions on a proposed garbage bur'll' plant will have its first meeting today to begin discussion and planning for the project. Qounty commissioners last week officially appointed the 15 cityTand county representatives to theadministrative board. The board will direct the operations of the .Special solid waste district. "the 12 member cities in the district submitted names of the representatives they selected to the'commission, who in turn ap', and pointed the terms. TJie three commissioners are alscrmembers of the board, since state law requires the county have from three to seven representatives on the district board. Today's district board meeting newly-create- two-ye- wil,be tember to handle the disposal of solid waste in the county and incorporate the two county landfills. The only cities in the county not in the district are the three largest: Layton, Clearfield and c held at 4:30 p.m. in coun- pmmission chambers in the coupty courthouse in Farming-ton- . ty An option to expand the facility will also be available, the way the facility is designed. It will be placed in the middle of the 23 site. acres, on a ten-acre Planning commission members voted unanimously to approve the special use permit with the stipulations. Bountiful. Layton officials have County Commissioner two-ye- ar 1 ESeviIw MORNING, FROM ROY THROUGH NORTH SALT LAKE. A SUBSIDIARY OF THE STANDARD CORPORATION. MARILYN CARLSRUH GARY HATCH Sports Editor Assistant Editor 145 N. Main, Bountiful 298-110- 3 - 298-112- 3 NEWS DEADLINES and photos should bo submitted no lator than Friday at noon for publication the following Wednesday. 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