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Dakota Correctional Deputy Takes Inspiration from Inmates
Tuesday 19th of December 2006 08:53:55 PM
Correctional Deputy Joe Engesser, who works at Dakota County jail guarding criminals, spends his free time creating cartoon strips. He has had his comic strips sold to various publications across the county in magazines such as Better Homes and Woman's World. Engesser has also had his work hung in the Charles Schulz museum in the town of Santa Rosa in California, in the Peanuts memorial exhibition.
Joe Engesser also sells printed T-shirts with a cartoon Packers fan on his website www.CheeseBob.com. Engesser's work is also hung in the jailbreak room in Hastings prison and is published in the Dakota County sheriff’s weekly newsletter.
The cartoon artist says he has always known that he wanted to be a cartoonist since he saw his first peanuts book. He owns over 100 copies of the peanuts books created by Charles Schultz. He does not come from an artistic background, he obtained a degree in commercial art at Iowa Lakes Community College but he used to freelance in the West Publishing art department.
Engesser bases some of his cartoons on the inmates he works with and finds their behaviours excellent fodder for strips. He spends most of his free time away from the prison working on his strips for publication and his printed T-shirts website. He lives on a farm with his wife and three sons.
Engesser was offered a job promotion recently but turned it down as he felt that it would interfere with his cartooning. He said "You're really at peace when you find what you're supposed to be doing, If you were to say to me, what's your goal? I'd say, “I’m kind of living it right now.” His wife helps takes care of the business side of his cartoon work and is very supportive.
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