Greg Cook is an underground cartoonist and comic book artist who has been published in ''
Nickelodeon Magazine
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'', ''Pulse'' magazine,
''The Believer'' magazine, ''New Art Examiner'', ''Arthur'', ''NON'', and ''L'Association's Comix 2000'' along with numerous other publications.
Personal information
He was born in
Chicago
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Illinois
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, graduated at the Art Institute in 1995, and now works as a newspaper reporter and artist/illustrator. His book ''Catch as Catch Can''
was published by
Highwater Books
Highwater Books was a small but influential independent comic book publisher based in Somerville, Massachusetts, noted for its arty editorial direction and production values under publisher Tom Devlin. Highwater began in 1997 and folded in Novembe ...
in 2001. Cook lived in
Chicago, Illinois
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for almost 10 years and currently resides in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Career
Cook has been experimenting with different styles and subject matters that go beyond the traditional newspaper comics. His new cartoons are about history, comedy, and fictional dramas about daily life. Cooks pieces of art have appeared in venues near
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester () is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore. The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census. An important center of the fishing industry and a ...
, as well as
Chicago, Illinois
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Cleveland
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,
Napoli
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
,
Italy
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Angouleme, and
France
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. From 2003-2004, Cook's work toured the
US with the exhibit "Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation". Cook was also a newspaper reporter for more than 10 years. He is now writing and illustrating a graphic novel documentary about American veterans from the war in Iraq. It is supposed to be published by a division of Henry Holt Books. Cook is also the editor of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, commodore of The Society for the Preservation of Fitz Hugh Lane, and founder of The Invisible Museum.
Awards
Cook received the "Promising New Talent" Ignatz Award at the
Small Press Expo
The Small Press Expo (SPX) is an American alternative comics convention. A registered 501(c)(3) that was created in 1994, every year since its inception, SPX has put on a festival, known as The Expo, that provides a forum for artists, writers and ...
in
Bethesda and in
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
the following year.
References
External links
Greg Cook's Official Website
Alternative cartoonists
American comics artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Chicago
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