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PULLING SOME STRINGS---Connie Funk (right) and the La Conner Braves Club used star power to drum up support for the local after-school program Saturday afternoon. Connie’s brother, world famous animator Craig Bartlett, headlined a benefit film festival at the La Conner Middle School Gymnasium, playing guitar and showing clips from Hey, Arnold! and other of his critically acclaimed cartoons. A good time was had by all. – Photo courtesy Bill Reynolds
As a teen, Craig Bartlett helped preserve La Conner’s past with his detailed drawings of local landmarks.
Now, four decades and countless critical and commercial successes later, the famed animator is helping champion the town’s future.
Bartlett, one of the enter-tainment industry’s most creative minds, returned home Saturday to present a film festival benefit for the new La Conner Braves sfter-school program.
With a string of hit TV shows and feature films to his credit, and a still ascending international career, Bartlett was clearly in his element meeting and greeting children and their par...
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