Kickstarter: Kenosha Festival of Cartooning

By on April 20th, 2012
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My good friend Anne Hambrock has started a Kickstarter project to help fund the second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning!  There are lots of cool giveaways for pledgers, so head on over and help back the project!

The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning is a 3 day festival of live presentations,  workshops, a gallery show, panel discussions and community outreach by some of the nation’s top cartoonists. The funds raised will be for the appearance fees, travel and lodging expenses of the artists and will allow the Festival events to be completely free to the public. The funds raised will also pay for publicity materials for the festival and to defray shipping costs for some of the original artwork in the festival exhibit.

Guest speakers are: Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine,Greg Cravens of The Buckets, Michael Jantze from The Norm and Jantze Animation Studios, Norm Feuti of Retail and Gil , Dave Coverly of Speed Bump and Parade Magazine, and panel moderator Tom Racine.

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The Boston Globe Writes About GIL

By on February 16th, 2012
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The Boston Globe wrote a very nice article about GIL today.

From the Globe:

Dennis the Menace is a precocious, freckled, blond-haired (and notoriously mischievous) 5 1/2-year-old with a gorgeous stay-at-home mom and a dad who’s an aerospace engineer.

The four Family Circus kids are cute and cheeky, their innocent comments and meandering adventures prompting sighs and headshaking from their white-collar father and homemaking mother.

And Gil? He’s chubby, gap-toothed, not too bright, and his working-class parents are divorced.

The central character of a new syndicated comic strip penned by Plainville cartoonist Norm Feuti, the 8-year-old bucks the idealized tradition of the comic pages, representing the norm of many 21st-century American families.

“I always wanted to do a family strip that was more down-to-earth,’’ said 41-year-old Feuti, a full-time cartoonist who also created the syndicated comic “Retail.’’

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You can read the rest of the article on the Globe’s website at www.boston.com.

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NY Times “Motherlode” Blog Writes About GIL

By on January 19th, 2012
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From Motherlode:

… “Gil” is more “Baby Blues” than “Boondocks,” and while all comic strips are ultimately written for adults, it still serves the classic comic strip purpose of reflecting real life back through a much funnier lens. Some things are funny to all ages. For others, the question of why it’s funny offers a child a glimpse into the grown-up mind …

Read the rest on the NYT’s Motherlode blog.

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