Norm Feuti Cartoons

The former co-creators of the comic strip My Cage, my friends Melissa DeJesus, and Ed Power are trying to get a super-cool graphic novel called “Santa vs Dracula” off the ground with the help of Kickstarter.

From the SvD Kickstarter page:

‘Santa vs Dracula’ is full color graphic novel about Count Dracula invading Santa Claus’s workshop with an army of monsters (Frankenstein’s Monster, Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, the Wicked Witch of the West, etc) in order to gain Santa’s ability to enter people’s homes at will. Of course, Santa has his own allies and they aren’t about to give the big-guy up without a fight!

Created by Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power, who also did the comic strip ‘My Cage’ for King Features Syndicate (http://www.gocomics.com/mycage) , ‘Santa vs Dracula’ started as an idea for a side-project web comic, but soon grew past that.

Melissa and Ed soon decided to submit the project to comic publishers as a pitch for a self-contained graphic novel.

The feedback was great. Publishers were interested, and there was even casual interest from a major film studio to hear a pitch once the project was further along. (IMPORTANT NOTE: This is only a casual interest. Nothing definite. The project/graphic novel should be taken on it’s own merit)

This led Melissa and Ed to decide this needed to be more than a side project.

The two of them do some really cool stuff. If you want to see more, click HERE to visit their Kickstarter page and get more information.

I’m happy to finally share some big news I’ve been sitting on for over a year. I will be launching a second comic strip through King Features in 2012, and that second comic strip is GIL.

For those of you unfamiliar, GIL was a rejected syndicate submission that I turned into a web-comic in 2008. Despite it being a very personal and rewarding strip that was very well received by its online audience, I pulled the plug on it in 2009 to focus on other projects. I decided to resubmit it for syndication in 2010 using the best of the strips I developed on the web as samples, and well … the planets aligned, and I was offered a contract.

I’ve been developing GIL with King Features since last December, and it is now slated to launch in January of 2012. It’s been a long road, but I’m absolutely thrilled to finally have the opportunity to share GIL through syndication.

Speaking of which, my editor Brendan Burford had the great idea to launch a blog where he and I talk about GIL’s development process, as well as the syndication process in general. Check it out at www.gilcomics.com. If you’ve ever wondered how a comic strip gets all the way from submission to syndication, this is going to be a one-of-a-kind peek behind the curtain, so don’t miss it!

Brendan and I will be blogging about the process weekly right up until GIL launches.  We kicked it all off with a podcast interview hosted by silver-voiced comics aficionado, Tom Racine from Tall Tale Features, and Geek Papas!

So check out the Gil Development Blog, check out Tall Tale Features, and help me usher in 2012 with a new comic strip!  I’m very excited!

 -Norm

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