Marceline, Missouri, hometown of Walt Disney, will host internationally acclaimed cartoonists for Walt Disney's Hometown Toonfest. The cartoonists and their fans will celebrate Disney's boyhood in Marceline, the little rail-stop town where Disney lived from 1906-1911. The Toonfest will recognize the influence that Marceline had on Disney's animated cartoons and toast the accomplishments of today's all-star American cartoonists. Disney returned to pastoral Marceline numerous times during his legendary career for locale and lifestyle research for his films, and for personal renewal. The Toonfest is sponsored in part by Andrews McMeel Universal, a Kansas City-based media company, providing the world with books, calendars, newspaper features, film/TV, online and wireless content and much more. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman will lead a contingent of cartoon and entertainment creators to Marceline's vintage Uptown Theater where they will show and tell audiences what they do and how they do it. Borgman is also co-creator (with Jerry Scott) of the comic strip, ZITS, two-time winner of the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Best Comic Strip Award (1998-99), and the 2000 MAX AND MORITZ Medal for Best International Comic Strip. Other guests include: cartoonists Glenn and Gary McCoy; svp creative development, Walt Disney Imagineering Tony Baxter; ZIGGY creator Tom Wilson Jr.; animation critic and historian Charles Solomon; and Pixar