Glen’s latest cheesy, self-promoting editorial
If you’re an avid Peak reader, you are already aware that I, intrepid Humour editor Glen Callender UFA, am very reluctant to write about myself, and even more reluctant to (perish the thought!) praise myself.
However, on this occasion I have no other option. Peak history is about to be made, and if you are to comprehend these events, I must, regrettably, break character and tell you about how great I am.
The historical event? As of the end of the summer semester, I will no longer be the Peak Humour editor.
Why am I so great? Because I was the visionary who originally started the Peak Humour section—a treasured institution if there ever was one.
It’s hard to believe, but there was a time not so long ago when The Peak rarely ran comics. Indeed, for years the prevailing attitude at The Peak was dead against having a comics page in the paper. Entertainment? Bah!
I started the Humour section in January 1998. It was a controversial event, as many of the clique running the paper at the time hated my guts with an intensity that was startling to behold. Looking back on it, it’s a marvel that I managed to pull it off at all.
The early days of the Humour section were not easy for poor ol’ me. I was openly despised. Everything I did was treated with suspicion. I got virtually no respect.
Indeed, although the Humour section was immediately popular with readers, there was so much anti-Glen sentiment in the Peak inner circle that I had to work for free for over a year and a half before the Humour section was officially recognised as being a valuable part of the paper and made a paid editorial position.
But it was worth it, for my efforts have ultimately added up to something that will survive in The Peak after I am gone. And now, after having done this job for over two and a half years—eight semesters—I feel it is time to move on to a new position at The Peak.
As of September I will become the Peak Copy editor, and deliver the Humour section, that delicate babe that I brought into being and nurtured all these years, into the arms of another man.
I think you’ll dig our new Humour editor, Josh Byer. He’s the mind behind the comic Nobody Likes You, and he’s got some nifty ideas for The Peak. He’s going to be taking the Humour section in some new directions. I look forward to it.
As a final note, I just checked, and it turns out that I have written for the past 106 consecutive issues of The Peak, including this one. Wow, eh? I think I speak for the entire SFU community when I say:
Yay, me! •
Originally published in The Peak, July 24 2000.
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