Tutenstein captures the Daytime Emmy for Best Cartoon two years running
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More than a decade had passed since Jay Stephens, a Guelph comic artist, had first dreamed up the idea of a mummified, reanimated Egyptian boy-king.
Although Tutenstein was conceived in Stephens’ vivid imagination and brought to life by Stephens’ pencil, the Emmys went to the immense team of producers and animators that broadcast the character to millions of homes. So it was the producers, not Stephens, who accepted the Emmy statuette on award night.
Still, Stephens was proud of his little undead boy-king.
“I almost felt like Tutenstein was this kid that had gone off to college and calls home to say he’s done really well,” Stephens recalls. “I was happy for him.”
