Norm Feuti Cartoons

My good friend Tom Racine who hosts the most excellent Tall Tale Radio podcast is trying to raise enough money to get a new laptop via a pledge drive through Indiegogo.  

From Tom:

Tall Tale Radio, a podcast that, since 2008, has interviewed nearly 200 cartoonists, artists, animators, musicians, and writers, needs your help!  I’m trying to raise money to get a new laptop, some recording equipment upgrades, and hopefully defray some travel costs to the Cons I cover.

I hope if you’ve enjoyed my show that you can pitch in and help me reach my goal of $3500 to cover these expenses. Take a look at the cool incentives…there’s one-of-a-kind original art, amazing signed compilations, CDs of edisodes, all sorts of fun stuff to make it worth your while!

I have a great fanbase, and I hope you’ll spread the word so that I can continue bringing you quality interviews with the artists you love and admire!

There are lots of cool perks at the various donation amounts, but at the high end are original artwork by yours truly, as well as the very talented cartoonists, Brian Anderson (Dog Eat Doug), John Hambrock (The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee), and Jonathan Lemon (Rabbits Against Magic).

Tom has helped me and a lot of other cartoonists spread the word about their work through his podcasts, so I hope some of you will throw a few coins his way!

Team Cul de Sac was created to honor Richard Thompson, creator of the award-winning comic strip, Cul de Sac, after his recent Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. Cartoonists, artists, illustrators, and animators have donated original artwork for an auction, with 100% of the proceeds benefitting the Michael J. Fox Foundation to support Parkinson’s research. The auction ends June 10 at 10:00 p.m. The artwork is also collected in a book, Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson’s (Andrews McMeel Publishing), to be published June 5, 2012. A portion of the proceeds from the book will also be directed to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

This is a great cause, so please consider supporting the MJF Foundation’s effort to aid Parkinson’s research by either bidding on some original art, or purchasing the book collection of the donated artwork.  I had the opportunity to see an advance copy of the book at the NCS Reuben Awards weekend in Las Vegas last weekend, and it’s absolutely gorgeous.  Chris Sparks did an amazing job putting it together.

My humble offering to the auction (a collage of Petey and Alice made from comic page newsprint) is pictured above, but with contributions by artists like Bill Watterson, Sergio Aragones, and Lynn Johnson this is also a rare opportunity to purchase the artwork of some true cartooning legends.

You can purchase the book at:  http://sparkingdesign.com/order-team-cul-de-sac-book/

To browse, or bid on original artwork, visit the Team Cul De Sac auction at: http://comics.ha.com/common/auction/catalog.php?SaleNo=510

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.