{"id":90,"date":"2014-07-21T04:45:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T04:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingup.com\/home\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2014-08-13T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:23:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingup.com\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  <div class=\"banner has-hover\" id=\"banner-2076825052\">\n          <div class=\"banner-inner fill\">\n        <div class=\"banner-bg fill\" 0>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingup.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Catching-Up-About-Dark.jpg\" class=\"bg attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" \/>                                    \n                    <\/div>\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"banner-layers container\">\n            <div class=\"fill banner-link\"><\/div>               <div id=\"text-box-931855732\" class=\"text-box banner-layer x10 md-x10 lg-x10 y10 md-y10 lg-y10 res-text\">\n              <div data-parallax=\"3\" data-parallax-fade=\"true\">       <div data-animate=\"fadeInDown\">           <div class=\"text-box-content text dark\">\n              \n              <div class=\"text-inner text-left\">\n                  \n<h4 class=\"thin-font\">Ariel Freaner<\/h4>\n<h1>The Artist Behind<\/h1>\n<h1>Catching Up<\/h1>\n              <\/div>\n           <\/div>\n       <\/div>       <\/div>              \n<style>\n#text-box-931855732 {\n  width: 60%;\n}\n#text-box-931855732 .text-box-content {\n  font-size: 100%;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #text-box-931855732 {\n    width: 60%;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n    <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n            \n<style>\n#banner-2076825052 {\n  padding-top: 400px;\n}\n<\/style>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row row-divided\"  id=\"row-379302354\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1608890239\" class=\"col medium-1\/1 large-12\"  data-animate=\"fadeInDown\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h3><div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\" ><\/div><\/h3>\n<p>Ariel Freaner, was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Coming from a family of professionals, Ariel\u2019s father may have preferred that he pursue a more practical career as an attorney, engineer, or civil servant, but all Ariel ever wanted to do was follow his love of drawing. He started working various jobs at an very early age, but one Christmas his parents got him a drafting table and ever since, no matter what other work he did, he has made time for his art. By the time he was 17 he was drawing a Sunday full page comic and a daily comic strip for one of the leading northern Mexican newspapers \u201cEl Imparcial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon strip was called \u201cLos Blincabolines\u201d\u2013The Jumplybeans\u2013and was quite popular. During his days as a cartoonist in Hermosillo, Ariel created a new character to represent the Red Cross in Sonora which was a huge success and won him awards all over Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel moved to the beautiful city of San Diego, California, where he started his own business as a graphic designer. His hard work and commitment to his profession paid off and he opened his own design and creative firm, Freaner Creative.<\/p>\n<p>After a car accident that almost killed him, Ariel decided he wanted to be a winner in life\u2014not in money, fame or those intangible things for which we can\u2019t account when we leave this world\u2014but success in the things he loves most, especially his art. He realized it was time to move on to more creative and personal things and turned back to his love of comic strips to create his new series, \u201cCatching Up\u201d, which picks up were the Jumplybeans left off.<\/p>\n<p>The strip addresses the pressures of catching up with our everyday life: feelings, love, news, technological changes and everything that surround us: our problems, our blessings, work, and all those things that we can get and those that seem to continually slip through our grasps. He sees his comic strip as his last chance at redemption. While lying in the hospital he realized he was tired of catching up with the everyday rat race to survive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72\" style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catchingup.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CU-Hello-Hello-leave-a-message-001.jpg\" alt=\"Hello? Hello? Leave a message\" width=\"858\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catchingup.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CU-Hello-Hello-leave-a-message-001.jpg 858w, http:\/\/www.catchingup.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CU-Hello-Hello-leave-a-message-001-510x146.jpg 510w, http:\/\/www.catchingup.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CU-Hello-Hello-leave-a-message-001-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hello? Hello? Leave a message<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCatching Up\u201d is not just about computers, technology or the internet. It\u2019s about trying hard to catch up with all the new things in life that we face everyday. It\u2019s trying to understand our progress and this ever-changing world in which we live. It\u2019s trying to keep up with the things that happen to us; the things that change around us and the ones that simply don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Ariel\u2019s inspiration to be a cartoonist was his Uncle Bill Melendez who was responsible for all of the Peanuts specials, starting with \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d in 1965. Uncle Bill was also responsible for the classic characters of The Trix Rabbit; Snap, Crackle &amp; Pop; and the Lucky Charms Leprechaun. 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