Profiled: Norm Feuti and his new comic Gil
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Today.com has profiled Gil creator Norm Feuti about the launch of his new feature and how it compares to other family strips.
The cartoonist finds it a bit surprising that it’s taken newspaper comics so many years to deal with divorce head-on. “It’s sort of an odd thing where we’re afraid to show real life,” he told TODAY.com. With roughly half of U.S. marriages ending in divorce, he asked, “how can you not know someone who’s divorced?”
Still, despite his own parents’ divorce, “I had a great childhood,” Feuti said. “We didn’t have everything, but we weren’t poor.”
And maybe that’s the way in which the cartoonist is the most like his own creation: They’re both optimists. ” ‘Gil’ is about the resiliency of childhood,” he said.
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