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This hometown of Walt Disney, will host internationally acclaimed cartoonists for Walt Disney's Hometown Toonfest Sept. 16-17. 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.

Marceline is located 120 miles northeast of Kansas City. 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.