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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.

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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!

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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!

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Cooper made a cameo today in the hilarious comic strip Scary Gary by Mark Buford. Thanks for the shout-out, Mark!

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Richard Thompson of Cul De Sac fame left an awesome limerick on my Facebook wall.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Feuti, now at last you’re forty, Exercise and eat good food and take care of your aorti!

yr fan,

Richard

And this morning my wife had the whole kitchen decorated with “40″ baloons and decorations, as well as pictures of me from the past posted all over the refrigerator.  I’ll share a few with you.

Here’s me at age four.  Despite the haircut, clothing, and circa 1958 Buick in the background, I assure you this picture was taken when Richard Nixon was president, NOT vice president.

Here’s a picture of me and my sister one year later.  No mistaking what decade this picture was taken in. Not with my white tie/belt combo and “No Country for Old Men” haircut.  It also helps that my mom scratched “1975″ onto the front with a ballpoint pen.  Oddly, It looks like she added a copyright symbol above the date too. Good thinking, Ma.  That way nobody can use this image of your children sitting on a giant bandana without your express written permission.

Tasty Treats, anyone?  I’m not sure what toy that apron and hat came with.  I want to say it was the Snoopy Snow Cone Factory, but I can’t be sure … and what’s going on with my crotch?

Ah, 1977.  The year of bad shirts and even worse haircuts. But one really awesome thing did happen that year …

STAR WARS!  I like to think this picture was taken the night after we finally saw the movie at the drive-in, because the expression on my face totally indicates that I’m reliving the whole experience in dream form.  And thanks again to my mom for writing our address on the front of the picture, so I’ll never forget the street, town, and state I grew up in.

But now it’s time to move on to darker times.  Here I am in my red jumpsuit right after my gymnastics recital in 1979.  Our all male team tumbled around on the floor, then straddled each other in a circle for the finale.  All to the song “Macho Man” by The Village People.  Absolutely nothing gay about that.

But the private shame doesn’t end there!  Here I am in 1982 with my mom and her boyfriend in full costume on our way to the “Doctor Who” convention in Denver.  Thank God somebody took a picture, because otherwise I might have been tempted to deny it ever happened.

Let’s shoot forward a few years to 1986. Let the catcalls fly, ladies!  For your viewing pleasure, teenage Norm is showing off his ultra-smooth Barbie doll legs with a sexy pair of short shorts! I’m even showing more leg than my sister!  I don’t remember borrowing her ®Nair, but this picture seems to indicate otherwise.

Here’s a slightly cooler picture of me in 1987, rocking a “Billy and the Boingers” t-shirt and high-tops.  I only included this one because of the Bloom County reference, not to show off the opulent luxury I’ve always enjoyed. Good breeding taught me to eat a Pop Tart gingerly, so as not to drop crumbs on the lavish couch that doubled as my bed.

Here I am a decade later in 1995, on one of the first dates with the girl I would eventually marry. Man, look at that hair.  So thick and lush …. WHOA, gas was only $1.32 a gallon!!!

And last but not least, here I am in 1997 marrying the beautiful woman who has made my last 13 birthdays very special.  I love you, Jen.

Alright, I’m off to enjoy my first official day of being old.  Have a great day, everyone!  Hope you enjoyed the pics!

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I’ve never really tackled anything quite like this before, so the work has been slow-going.  But it’s been rewarding work too.  It’s nice to draw at a more thoughtful pace for a change.

Hopefully I can share more soon.

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UPDATE:  The problem seems to be fixed now.  I’ve restored the links to CK.

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Here’s a concept sketch for an upcoming graphic story I’m in the process of writing.

This will be a web project that I hope to begin posting as a regular feature on the site sometime later this year.  The particulars are still up in the air, so stay tuned.  I hope to have a better idea of how the project will unfold by spring.

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The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee ©2010 John Hambrock

Part of an ongoing story where Edison has ordered a used space shuttle.  I don’t blame his dad for sending it back.  Edison obviously didn’t look at the odometer on that thing. As a side note, I’m happy to see that John is giving the late Phil Silvers some work as a comic strip extra.

Believe it or not, you actually can purchase a used space shuttle if you have enough cash.

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Ollie & Quentin ©2010 Piers Baker

“Ollie & Quentin” got a solid snort out of me this morning.  Robins are dumb, but squirrels will dismantle that thing, turn it into a microwave cannon and use it against you.  They’re smart, evil bastards, so watch out!

Click on either strip to check them out on Comics Kingdom.

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