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Gill made a surprise cameo along with a bunch of other webcomic characters in today’s “My Cage”. Gill has a speaking line, so he’s going to expect a paycheck, Ed!
Be sure to check out the very funny “My Cage” every day. If your local paper is not inclined to run such contemporary fare, you can read it on the Seattle Post Intelligencer website. They also have a new book out chronicling the first year of the strip. You can get more information on Ed & Melissa’s website at www.mycagecomic.com.
My friend Tony Murphy, artist behind the very funny comic strip It’s All About You syndicated through The Washington Post Writers Group, is raising money on Kickstarter.com to start a new project.
His goal is to create a weekly comic-strip broadsheet titled Coffee Talk that will be carried in coffee shops or cafes. The purpose behind that goal is to breathe life into and revive the experience of the newspaper comic strip.
From Tony’s page on Kickstarter:
The internet is great — but there’s nothing like reading comic strips in a newspaper you can hold in your hand. The project is therefore to create a newspaper of comic strips. Since much of my strip, It’s All About You, takes place in a cafe or is coffee-related, Coffee Talk could be carried in cafes and coffee shops.
One of the strips he would LIKE to run in this new broadsheet is Mr. Zimby … created by yours truly … but it all depends on how much funding he can get to start this thing.
So if there are any generous philanthropists among my readership here, I would encourage you to visit Tony’s Kickstarter page and make a donation. It sounds like a really cool idea and it just might give Mr. Zimby his print debut!
And do yourself a favor and check out Tony’s strip by clicking on the comic up top!
I’m getting a ton of traffic from Stumbleupon and Reddit today, so I thought I’d take a minute to introduce the strip (and my other work) to those who might be discovering it for the first time.
I’m Norm Feuti and my syndicated comic strip Retail appears in about 70 newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada. The strips you see on this site are from 2006, (the strip’s first year in newspapers), but you can read new Retail strips in print or online daily. If your local newspaper doesn’t carry Retail, you can read it on any number of newspaper websites that host King Features’ “Comics Kingdom” widget. If you click on the retail characters on the right sidebar, it will take you to today’s Retail strip on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s website.
If you like the strip, you might also want to check out my book, Pretending You Care: The Retail Employee Handbook. Much more than a compilation of cartoons, Pretending You Care is a parody self help book for retail employees. Along with 200 strips from the first year and a half of Retail, this book is 300 pages of humorous advice, analysis, and anecdotes from my own painful retail career. It was published by Hyperion in 2007 and can be found on Amazon and fine booksellers everywhere.
If you explore the tabs at the top, you can see some of my other comics that have appeared on this site in the past as exclusive online content. Gill, a comic I created in 2008, ran on this website for about a year and a half. You can view Gill in its entirety in the main comics window by clicking HERE, then navigating forward. Two other comic experiments of mine, Nelson and Mr. Zimby, exist in their entirety on their own pages.
At any rate, welcome to the site. I hope you enjoy my work and will revisit frequently!
