Background
Feuti grew up in Pascoag, Rhode Island, where he and his older sister were raised by their single mother, who worked in a screen windows factory.
Feuti grew up in Pascoag, Rhode Island, where he and his older sister were raised by their single mother, who worked in a screen windows factory.
“Growing up in a single-parent family during America’s first ‘Great Recession’ wasn’t always easy, but I look back on my formative years fondly,” said Feuti. He drew in high school but wasn"t impressed enough by his drawing ability to apply to an art school. He is a resident of Plainville, Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts, Feuti had over 15 years of retail management experience at seven different stores, selling everything from arts and crafts supplies, jewelry and men"s footwear to clothing, giftware and toys.
He first worked at a convenience store, recalling:
They insisted we wear an apron. Our clientele was generally getting out of a bar late at night, coming in, yelling that we were out of their brand of cigarettes, and we still had to put on an apron to create an air of respectability.
As the company moved into the backpack business, it asked employees to wear a backpack around the store and compete to sell the highest number. Soon, he switched to Bostonian, an upscale shoe store where the merchandise was more expensive and the customers complained more loudly.
One shopper called the store to report that a shoelace had broken official
lieutenant was unclear how the lace had broken, or what it had to do with the store, but the man angrily demanded that Mr. Feuti mail him a new one, which he did. When Mr. Feuti steered one mother to a series of Looney Tunes-themed workbooks she sneered that her highly literate children "never watch television"
Tapping into such past experiences, Feuti"s daily comic strip was launched on January 1, 2006 by King Features Syndicate.
In 2008, Feuti created a second strip,, as a web comic on his website. also sees his father Frank occasionally, a ne"er-do-well who often offers questionable advice.
Secondary characters include "s friend and confidant Shandra and his antagonist Morgan. In 2011, was picked up for syndication by King Features and launched in newspapers on January 2, 2012.
Quotations: Wasn’t always easy, but I look back on my formative years fondly,”.