This page is for anyone who wants to have a special thing to say about Alan.

As time goes on I hope folks will write funny things about Alan and great things about him.

Remember Alan would like to have us joke about things and to have fun.


James Babcock : Alan’s brother of the heart.


James Eulogy To Alan:

Hi I was Alan's friend for over 25 years and I was told that I could send my last thoughts of him to you that you may deliver it to his parent to be read at his funeral.

Then There Was Alan

I'm sure everyone here today has there own stories they can tell about Alan Greenbaum. Greenie to some of you. Yet, for me he was more than a friend, colleague, and confidant he was my Greatest Best Friend, Mentor, and my Adoptive Brother in this whole wide world.

And here's why. When I answered a newspaper ad in the Phoenix that Alan had put out years ago. He netted over 7 up and coming cartoonist including me. For he wanted to do the impossible. He wanted to create a comic strip of a character that every person could identify with. Yet, after scanning over the other 6 artists artwork he told me after reaching my portfolio of me being his last hope, his heart got up and danced. He told me the reason he picked me out of all the others was because my work wasn't a copycat of stuff that was already out there. It was Raw and Unique and this is what he was looking for. So began a wonderful relationship between our two parties. You s.e.e. Alan was going to write and I was assigned to do the graphics department. And to say that this was a shock to my system was like saying the Grand Canyon was just a hole in the ground. Never in my life did someone trust my judgment like he did for me. So when my bouts of my twin diagnoses of a mental condition arose and told me that I was wasting my time with this:

Then There Was Alan.

He taught me to deal with my Pandora's Closet of all the "LIES" I was told about myself as I grew up in my dysfunctional family system that beat my self esteem into the ground. And many of times I wanted to throw in the towel as far as my belief and talent was concerned. However Alan saw in me the inner strength about me like a caterpillar who had spin his cocoon but was terrified to burst out of it into the newly created Butterfly. And I th.I.n.k. this was the reason he took me under his wing. He revealed things to me like no one in my life had ever done before not even in my own family members. And so as he got NAKED MENTALLY with me I did the same with him. Even when I had to move back to Tucson because my financial funds had dried up and I lost my phone book with his number in it. We lost contact with one another for over a year. Yet, when I unearthed it and called Alan the following night worried that he'd be pisst off at me for leaving him high and dry all this time. But to my surprise he told me "Hey I was just thinking about YOU!" Thus began our wonderful long distance partnership. And whether he wanted it or not I considered him to be my Silent Partner. And we had a blast at working laughing and crying on his creations. But mind you Alan wasn't a One Way Street he loved hearing about the characters I myself was creating on the side. And through our interaction Alan taught me that life was to be LIVED instead of hiding out in other persons shadows. So like Linus of the Peanuts Comic strip I started to get rid of my comfort zones by tossing away my security blanket. Alan told me many many of times that he was the lucky one to have found a chunk of coal like me, but now that I thin.k. about it it's the other way around. By taking Alan's advice I started taking chances and risking being hurt all over again. But this was LIFE my life and if I was going to enjoy it now that I've just turned 50 I'd better start doing it now.

So when adversity and despair comes knocking on my door to bully me into thin.k.ing that it's all a crock. All I got to do now is call up on one of the Thousand hundred memories that I got out of my phone conversations with Mr. Greenbaum. And it's like he's right there beside me saying "OK, James E. Babcock, we're going to do this together and kick the stuffing out of your FEARS!" Because you know and I know that you can do this all on your own! And even when Alan left to Maryland to help out those in need he told me that 09 was going to be our year that we make it in our chosen field. I didn't know what the cost was going to be to achieve this goal.

Now I can honestly say that he is totally my SILENT PARTNER and I shall forever love him by remembering him all the days I now live with his memories. Good bye 'Ol Bubby. Until the time comes when we will met again.
Thanx. J.E.B.


Howard Wasserman Eulogy:

I’m not much of a public speaker but for my dearest friend Alan I need to say a few words. There are only a handful of people who come into your world and touch your life in a dramatic fashion. Some of the people are just flickers of light during a long life,while others are consistent glows for years. Alan was my consistent glow. my classmate in school and my best friend for over 35 years. He was like a second brother to me. I confided in him,we talked almost weekly ,talking about out daily and weekly mishoogases.
Alan used to say almost every time we talked and I quote “Waz,Life is Crazy” Well Greeny as I so affectionately called him, this is crazy. You have gone way before your time, and we are going to miss you very very much..

Alan’s Hebrew name is Avraham, and Avraham was the forefather.of the Jewish People .One of Avraham’s many attributes was Chesed or Kindness. Chazal tell us that as long as Avraham Avinu was alive he was so involved in acts of kindness that there was little work left for Hashem’s attribute of Chesed .Hashem was obviously still a G-d of chesed but most of it was carried out through Avraham Avinu. This attribute of Chesed was in our Alan., when he came back to Baltimore each year,he helped his parents by reparing the house,painting,fixing, plumbing as well as his sister’ house too. He fixed car problems, he took people places, and was a fantastic uncle to his nephew Ari and Eileen ‘s step kids too.His infectious smile and laughter left all of us glowing.

.You were a guy who not only I looked up too and admired but your family, and your loads of friends did as well.. You cared about all of us , you wrote yom tov cards to me and my family and birthday cards to my boys. You even asked about our dog Chester the wonder dog. You were a caring individual You really don’t know how many lives you touched. You cared for an individual that very few people would do in life. Although you never had a family of your own, all of us were your family..and we have many great memories of you. And now a poem.

Mere words Cannot describe
The many qualities you showed
The Love and caring nature that
you shared with those you know

Your kind and gentle temperament
your sweet angelic smile
Your softly spoken sentiments
That reach across the miles.

Your smile and laugh that sparkle with
the softness of your sighs
the way your face lights up a room
that twinkle in your eye

The loving gestures through the years
that quickly come to mind
For always you’ve a gentle word
to calm and soothe I find

I struggle and I search to try
to find some words anew
and Yet I cannot capture
All the things that made you YOU.