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Kenosha Festival of Cartooning schedule

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Alan Gardner August 21, 2012 1 minute 4 comments

This one got past me. If you’re in the greater Wisconsin area, please carve out some time to visit the second year Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. It’s a great line-up. Festival runs Thursday, September 27th through Saturday, September 29th.

Here’s the preliminary schedule:

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.