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The Basics…
Name: Jay Patrick Fosgitt
Birth date: 10/07/74
Occupation: Cartoonist
Significant Other: My beloved wife Laura
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The Personal Junk…
Favorite Movie: (live action) A tie between "Sleepy Hollow" and "Little Shop of Horrors. (Animated) "Dumbo"
Favorite Books: "The Watchmen" by Alan Moore, "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo, "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Favorite Band: The Beatles
Favorite Song: "Try A Little Tenderness" as sung by The Commitments
Favorite Actor: (male) Alan Tudyk (female) Halle Berry
Favorite Director: Tim Burton
Favorite Holiday: Halloween
Favorite Cartoon: Popeye
If I could meet one person living or dead, it'd be: Jim Henson
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The Artistic Stuff…
My Professional Title: Cartoonist
My Artistic Medium: Primarily comics, though I frequently have my hands in caricatures, illustration, commercial art and every other form of cartooning outside of animation.
My Tools of Choice: Micron Pigma markers (introduced to me by Greg Evans), Sharpie markers, Bristol board, white plastic erasers, mechanical pencils, my computer/scanner and Adobe Photoshop.
Artists Who Inspire Me: (since childhood) Jim Henson, Charles Schulz, Johnny Hart, Berke Breathed, Bill Watterson, Ralph Bakshi (since high school) Mike Mignola, Jeff Smith, Kyle Baker, Tim Burton, Bill Plympton, Vaughn Bode, Walt Kelly (since college) Greg Evans, Al Hirschfeld, Jim Borgman, David Catrow, and Dave McKean.
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In a Nutshell…
I was conceived in Merrill Michigan, delivered into this world by a preteen mom in Southfield, Michigan, adopted by a young couple and brought full circle to live in Shields, Michigan (a few miles east of Merrill).
Raised on a steady diet of Muppets, newspaper comics and classic television (which, thirty years ago, was just called "television"), my taste for pop culture developed early on. For no specific reason, I took to drawing at age two, and evidently was pretty good at it. Two years later, there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to be a cartoonist when I grew up. Working towards that goal, I won awards in grade school for my art, corresponded with my idol, Jim Henson, and began getting some positive attention for my work. High school held similar successes, ushering me into my earliest forays in freelance commercial art and professional caricaturing, and garnishing me even more attention and awards.
In college I saw my comics published for the first time in my school paper (the Delta Collegiate, which ran my "Highschool: Part II", "Cartoon Ruckus" and "Chicken Strips" comics for five years) and began correspondence with cartoonist Greg Evans (of "Luann" fame), who became my professional mentor.
After I transferred to Central Michigan University I got further experience in cartooning with the publication of two new comics in my school paper (CMLife, which ran my "Mother's Goofs" and "Waste Products of a Warped Vision" comics for three and a half years). It was also at CMU that I met the love of my life, Laura Tanner, who, for the first time ever, gave me something to cherish that I didn't create on a sheet of paper.
Today I'm a moderately successful cartoonist living in mid Michigan with his true love, very happy and always looking forward to creating something new.
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