Willie Mays by Michael Jantze

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Title:	Willie Mays by Michael Jantze
Artist:	Michael Jantze (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	88
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	8/21/2024
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�� Michael Jantze is the cartoonist of The Norm comic strip which was syndicated by King Features from 1996-2004. The protagonist Theodore Norman Miller was a young single man working as a graphic artist. The year in which Norm pretended to be his friend Reine's fiance to fool her parents was hilarious. I used to read the strip in my local newspaper The Argus and then followed it online until it's end in 2006. Michael continued the story of Norm and Reine in the Knocked Out Loaded graphic novel and restarted the strip as The Norm 4.0. The Cartoon Art Museum holds an annual Sketch-a-Thon fundraiser at their SDCC booth where professional comics and animation artists spend an one-hour-shift drawing for fans. The fundraiser went online in 2020 during the pandemic and sketches are available onsite and online the last couple years. Norm and his friends were active people and I picked three sports for my 2023 requests. This year saw the passing of Willie Mays, the greatest San Francisco Giant of all time. Michael lived in the Bay Area for a long time and I knew he attended games in the city so I wanted him to draw Willie. I�m very happy with this depiction.

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	Steven Ng ( 4 ) Premium Gallery Owner
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Last Login:	September 2025
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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 8/22/2024

The Say Hey Kid inspired the best out of his teammates and his opponents. He definitely inspired fans as well with Jantze using his own 5 tools to get a nice tribute done.

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