Upcoming Kenosha Festival of Cartooning!

If you're anywhere near Kenosha in late September, make sure to attend the KENOSHA FESTIVAL OF CARTOONING!  I attended the inaugural Festival last year as one of the presenters and it was fantastic!  If you're a fan of cartooning, this is an amazing opportunity to attend multiple free events, listen to cartooning professionals and best of all, meet them in person!

Preliminary Schedule for
Kenosha Festival of Cartooning 2012

The 2012 Kenosha Festival of Cartooning will be held from
Thursday, September 27th through Saturday, September 29th.

The following is a preliminary schedule and may change.
Check back regularly for updates. Note that not all events are open to the
public.

Thursday 9/27

8:00
am Interview with Greg Berg of WGTD for the Morning
Show.

All
artists.

9:50-11:30 am Classroom lecture at Carthage
College. Not open to the public.

2:00-4:00 pm Lectures at Carthage College and the
University of Wisconsin Parkside. Not open to the public

6:30 pm John
Hambrock  Kenosha Public Museum (Free
& Open to Public)

John will officially open the festival and introduce the
evening's speakers.

6:45
pm Dave Coverly Kenosha Public Museum  (Free
& Open to Public)

Behind
the scenes of "Speed Bump".

7:30 pm Michael Jantze  Kenosha Public
Museum (Free & Open to
Public)

Behind the scenes of "The Norm" and Jantze Animation
Studios.

8:15-9:00 pm Dave Coverly and Michael Jantze will
sign books and the gallery show "More Than Funny will be open to the public in
the Museum's South Gallery. Kenosha Public Museum (Free
& Open to Public)

Friday 9/28

8:45-10:20 am Class lecture at Carthage College.
Not open to the public.

9:00-11:00 am Outreach to Children's Hospital. Not
open to the public

1:30-2:45 pm Assembly for KUSD high school art
students. Not open to the public.

7:00
pm Hilary Price Kenosha Public Museum  (Free
& Open to Public)

Behind
the scenes of "Rhymes With Orange".

7:45
pm Greg Cravens Kenosha Public Museum  (Free
& Open to Public)

Behind
the scenes of "The Buckets".

8:30-9:00 pm Hilary Price and Greg Cravens will
sign books and the gallery show "More Than Funny will be open to the public in
the Museum's South Gallery. Kenosha Public Museum (Free
& Open to Public)

Saturday, 9/29

10:00 am -12:00 pm Cartooning Class for ages
10-16. Taught by guest artists. Open to the public but registration is required
and a fee payable to the Kenosha Public Museum will be
charged.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Rotating artist demonstrations
in the Museum's "Artist Studio" Kenosha Public Museum (Free
& Open to Public)

1:30
2:45 pm Panel discussion with Stephan Pastis, John Hambrock, Hilary Price, Dave
Coverly, Greg Cravens, Phil Hands, Norm Feuti, and Michael Jantze -
moderated by Tom Racine. Kenosha Public Museum  (Free
& Open to Public but seating is limited and advance
registration will be required.)

3:00-3:45 pm Norm Feuti Kenosha Public Museum  Behind
the scenes of "Retail" and "Gil". (Free
& Open to Public but
seating is limited and advance registration will be required.)

3:45-4:30 pm Stephan Pastis Kenosha Public
Museum  Behind
the scenes of "Pearls Before Swine". (Free
& Open to Public but
seating is limited and advance registration will be required.)

4:30-5:00 pm Stephan Pastis and Norm
Feuti will sign books. Kenosha Public Museum  (Free
& Open to Public)

6:00-8:00 pm Silent Auction to benefit Children's
Hospital of Wisconsin's Kenosha Clinic. Rhode Center For The Arts. (Free
& Open to Public) The auction will feature original art by
each of the guest artists as well as the art of many other well known comic
artists. There will be a catered reception at this event and the artists will be
there to draw and sign for festival guests.

Comments

[StriderGirl]

Oh. Probably not this year, then! Ah well, maybe when the little fella is older...

[sandra]

It's in Wisconsin...I'm guessing about a 10 to 11 hour drive.

[StriderGirl]

(wistful sigh) It sounds so awesome. Where is Kenosha, again? And how long would it take to drive there from the GTA?