Norm Feuti Cartoons

Kickstarter: Kenosha Festival of Cartooning

Norm — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:18 +0000

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.

The Boston Globe Writes About GIL

Norm — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:47:42 +0000

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.

NY Times “Motherlode” Blog Writes About GIL

Norm — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:25:04 +0000

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.

Interview on “Beth & Friends”

Norm — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:05:52 +0000

If you missed it, above is the audio of my interview with Beth McDonald of “Beth & Friends” on KEZ 99.9 radio in Phoenix, AZ.

Today.com Writes About GIL!

Norm — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:16:02 +0000

Today.com, the website of NBC’s Today Show posts an article about GIL!

From Today.com:

Nuclear families have dominated newspaper comics since the dawn of the Nuclear Age, from the warm and fuzzy world of “The Family Circus” to the tree-lined suburban home of “Dennis the Menace.” But a new comic is breaking that mold, reflecting an America where roughly half of marriages end in divorce.

The title character in “Gil,” a syndicated strip that launched last week in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, has a hard-working single mom and an underachieving dad he sees only on alternate weekends.

Not only that: He’s a bit plump, he doesn’t have all the latest toys, and he’s exactly not at the top of the grading curve (assigned a school report on “Favorite Hero,” Gil’s best friend chooses abolitionist Sojurner Truth; Gil picks Batman). But somehow he always manages to look on the bright side …

Read the rest of the story on Today.com.

Limelight Wedding & Event Planning

Norm — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:46:20 +0000

Marla from my comic strip RETAIL isn’t the only one who wants to be an entrepreneur. Angela Wynn, significant other to my good friend Paul Gilligan (creator of the amazing “Pooch Cafe” comic strip) has started her own business as a wedding & event planning coordinator. Her new endeavor “Limelight” is based in Canada, so if any of my readers up north are looking to get hitched or throw a big bash, check out her site!

If you’re not familiar with Pooch Cafe, you should be! Check out Paul’s site by clicking on the strip below.

The Attleboro Sun Chronicle Writes About GIL

Norm — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:44:23 +0000

My hometown newspaper started carrying GIL today, and gave it a very nice write-up.

From The Attleboro Sun Chronicle:

Nationally syndicated cartoonist Norm Feuti of Plainville launched his comic career by mining his past as a shoe store worker for a daily strip about working as a low-paid retail employee.

Now Feuti is looking back on his childhood as he debuts a new strip that brings to life the problems and pratfalls of kids in the 21st century.

“Gil,” whose title character is an 8-year-old boy, hits the nation’s funny pages for the first time today, including The Sun Chronicle.

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You can read the rest of the article at TheSunChronicle.com.

USA Today Runs Story About GIL

Norm — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:27:12 +0000

From USA Today:

Charlie Brown’s parents divorcing?

Not really, but Gil, a newspaper comic strip that made its debut Monday, goes where few family strips have gone before, exploring the trials and exasperations of an 8-year-old boy raised by a single mom.

“Yay, alternate weekends,” Gil deadpans in one panel after his deadbeat dad admits he has no plan for the day other than buying a lottery ticket.

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You can read the rest of the article in today’s paper, or on USAToday.com.

GIL Launches Today!

Norm — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:30:06 +0000

Today’s the big day! Above is GIL #1. Be sure to look for GIL in your local newspaper, and/or add it to your DailyINK page!

GIL Launches on January 2nd!

Norm — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:37:47 +0000

It’s almost here! GIL will be launching this Monday in newspapers and on the web!

We’ve changed the GIL development blog at www.gilcomics.com. Going forward, it will be a blog and home base for all GIL related news. You can also follow GIL on Facebook, or follow me on Twitter for the latest news about the strip.

Early in the New Year www.gilcomics.com will begin including daily installments and an archive of the comic itself, but we’re waiting on some new software. I will be sure to announce that when it happens. Until then, you can still read GIL on the web through King Features’ digital services DailyINK, and Comics Kingdom.

If you have a smartphone, or tablet, I highly recommend the DailyINK app, which is available for both the Apple and Android markets.

Thank you to the many friends and fans who have wished me well with GIL, and followed the strip over the years. It’s been a long journey – one that I hope will continue for years to come.

Happy New Year!

-Norm