Featured Guest - Jay Fosgitt

About Jay - Raised on a steady diet of Muppets, newspaper comics and classic television (which, thirty years ago, was just called "television"), Jay's taste for pop culture developed early on. For no specific reason, he took to drawing at age two, and evidently was pretty good at it. Two years later, there was no doubt in his mind that he wanted to be a cartoonist when he grew up. Working towards that goal, he won awards in grade school for his art, corresponded with my idol, Jim Henson, and began getting some positive attention for his work. High school held similar successes, ushering him into his earliest forays in freelance commercial art and professional caricaturing, and garnishing me even more attention and awards.

In college he saw his comics published for the first time in his school paper (the Delta Collegiate, which ran his "Highschool: Part II", "Cartoon Ruckus" and "Chicken Strips" comics for five years) and began correspondence with cartoonist Greg Evans (of "Luann" fame), who became his professional mentor.

After he transferred to Central Michigan University he got further experience in cartooning with the publication of two new comics in his school paper (CMLife, which ran his "Mother's Goofs" and "Waste Products of a Warped Vision" comics for three and a half years). It was also at CMU that he met the love of his life, Laura Tanner, who, for the first time ever, gave him something to cherish that he didn't create on a sheet of paper.

Today he's a self described "moderately successful cartoonist" living in mid Michigan with his true love, very happy and always looking forward to creating something new. His first graphic novel, Dead Duck, is about to be released through Ape Entertainment in December.

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