# Sly Slug **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [February 24, 2001, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724 "2001-02-24T13:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/1 "2001-02-24T13:09:31Z")
After a couple of days of looking at Slug Signorino’s drawing of worms escaping a hapless surgery recovery, I discovered that he snuck his signature in with the worms (Well, a worm creates the “S” and the rest of the letters in Signorino are squiggles)! Cool. What’s next? Ninas? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/2 "2001-02-24T16:11:57Z")
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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/3 "2001-02-24T16:27:20Z")
And of course, the reference to Slug Signorino’s clever incorporation of the signature into the illustration immediately brings to mind Hirschfeld and his Ninas. For those of you unfamiliar with Hirschfeld, he is a famous american illustrator who portrayed stars in the US entertainment field (starting with Broadway artists but eventually wielding his pen to portray movie and television actors, musicians, etc…) After his daughter was born he started hiding her name (Nina) in his drawings and after 1960 his signature would be followed by a number that indicated the number of hidden “Ninas”. An example of the hidden Ninas can be seen here. [Illustrators: Al Hirschfeld](http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/hirschfe.htm) Look halfway through the page at the drawing with “Ninas” outlined in red (as an example, this was of course not his practice.) The [Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd.](http://www.alhirschfeld.com) which sells his art has some images online. A typical Hirschfeld drawing is this one: [American Popular Song: Great American Songwriters - featuring Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, George & Ira Gershwin, and Duke Ellington](http://www.alhirschfeld.com/A0058.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/4 "2001-02-24T18:31:16Z")
I have a framed Slug original (a portrait of myself in a skimpy dominatrix outfit with a whip, of course)and I was disappointed for the longest time that he hadn’t signed it. Six months later I found his signature; letters skipping through the picture near the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/5 "2001-02-24T19:26:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JillGat \* > \*\*I have a framed Slug original (a portrait of myself in a skimpy dominatrix outfit with a whip, of course) \*\* Link, please. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/6 "2001-02-26T04:41:23Z")
Don’t have a homepage and not sure how to link to a jpg… Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/7 "2001-02-27T00:24:13Z")
Come on JillGat, don’t leave Colibri hanging! Just e-mail that scanned Slug Signorino drawing over to Shayna and have her put it on the people pages _toot sweet_. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/8 "2001-02-27T04:57:52Z")
Colibri ain’t hangin’ (at least in this sense). I already sent it to him, and now you have it, too. - Jill ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/9 "2001-02-28T21:38:05Z")
What, the rest of us don’t count? Or would that violate the “no porn” rule? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/10 "2001-03-01T04:31:14Z")
Waitamoment… What “No porn” rule? I thought it was the “No-porn-except-for-SDSAB-members” rule. Does Arnold at least have permission to forward it to **Shayna**? By the way, the illustration last week also had an extra signature, in amongst the “lorum ipsum” text. Does this maybe mean that Slug really does like pain itself? This might also explain his portrait of **JillGat**. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/11 "2001-03-01T06:27:30Z")
[[Does this maybe mean that Slug really does like pain itself? This might also explain his portrait of JillGat.]] Hm. There are a couple of ways to interpret that… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/12 "2001-03-01T20:03:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > Does Arnold at least have permission to forward it to **Shayna**? The wheels are in motion. Patience, grasshopper! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/13 "2001-03-01T22:46:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*Does this maybe mean that Slug really does like pain itself? This might also explain his portrait of **JillGat**. \*\* Dunno about Slug. But in the drawing it looks like Jill has been trying out the amatory techniques of the female praying mantis (as she proposed to do in another thread). :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/14 "2001-03-25T23:55:55Z")
For those who requested it, here is my Slug portrait: [http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/jillgat.html](http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/jillgat.html) ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sly-slug/55724/15 "2001-03-26T03:15:46Z")
Well, **Jill,** at least Slug captured your good side :D.