Norm Feuti is an American

United States

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 cartoonist

Cartoonist

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 and author

Author

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 best known for his nationally syndicated comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 Retail

Retail (comic strip)

Retail is a syndicated comic strip distributed by King Features Syndicate. It is authored and illustrated by Norm Feuti. It made its newspaper debut on January 1, 2006, and then gained quickly in popularity following articles in The New York Times and TIME Magazine - Setting :The strip is set in...

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Retail

Having worked in retail

Retailing

Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...

 for more than 15 years, Norm Feuti started working on the daily comic strip Retail which was eventually launched on January 1, 2006, by the newspaper syndicate King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

. He has written the book Pretending You Care – The Retail Employee Handbook which contains over 200 Retail strips and was released in October 2007.

Gill

On November 10, 2008, Feuti launched a second comic strip, Gill, which is only available online

Webcomic

Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....

. In the beginning, Gill updated five times a week, but after a two month long hiatus in August and September 2009 the update schedule was reduced to three new strips a week. The eponymous main character of the comic strip is an eight-year-old boy who’s raised by his single mother in a poverty

Poverty

Poverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live...

-stricken household. Gill is also seeing his father occasionally, a ne'er-do-well with questionable education methods.

External links

• Norm Feuti Cartoons: personal homepage including the webcomic Gill and information about Retail