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10 centralight spring '14 When several football coaches left during a less than stellar football season, Fosgitt drew a Titanic-like ship, the S.S. CMU Football, sinking, with a lifeboat full of coaches rowing away. The head coach called him on the phone. He wasn't happy. He knew how to ruffl e feathers – but even administrators would grudgingly concede his talent from time to time. Fosgitt became something of a celebrity on campus. People recognized him when he signed credit card receipts. Classes discussed his cartoons. "I got people talking," he says, "and I loved that." After Central: These days Fosgitt's cartoons are read all over the world. He works from his home in Plymouth with his cat, Goonie. He's the creator of the all-ages comic book, "Bodie Troll," published by Red 5 Comics. He also created the graphic novel "Dead Duck," now an ongoing web comic. His single-panel comic, "Necronomicomics," lampoons horror fi lms and is published monthly in Rue Morgue magazine. "My time at CM Life was invaluable," Fosgitt says. "To have that publishing experience was fantastic. I wouldn't be where I am today without that experience." > Jay Fosgitt, '04 Plymouth, Mich. Cartoonist What he was known for at CMU: Cartoonist for CM Life from 2001-2004 known for his lampoons of campus administrators The backstory: When Fosgitt came to campus in 2001, there was an opening at CM Life for a cartoonist. Perfect – he had been planning a career as a cartoonist since he was 5 years old. "My goal was just to do a funny comic strip," Fosgitt says. "I didn't want to be political." But the newspaper wanted an editorial cartoon, as well as a funny strip, so "Waste Products of a Warped Vision" and "Mother's Goofs" were born. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION JAY FOSGIT T 10 centralight spring '14

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