And Animated Trigger is now officially up and running. Paid my bills, made a (somewhat lousy) banner, and we are good to go. So let's consider this the first official blog post, eh?
Hi, my name is Brett Marcus Cook. If you're reading this, there's a decent possibility that you already know who I am. For those of you who don't, I am a graphic design student at East Tennessee State University. I am an artist and designer, and I wish to be professionally writing and drawing comics in the future. We'll see how well that pans out, huh?
I've needed a website for a while now. In my graphic design workshop class, we were given the opportunity to put one together as a project as part of our grade, so I jumped at the situation, then quickly stumbled and fell because Dreamweaver is bloody retarded and only disturbed masochists use straight HTML coding these days. Thank the gods for my friend Shannon, who recommended Squarespace to me. I wanted to have a website built and up and running before my spring break came to an end, and it seems I am successful!
This is the first step to unlocking greatness, right? Having my own website? Anyways, I'll try to make semi-regular updates here, but considering how busy I am most of the time, I can't make any promises.
So! Stuff and things:
Over this Spring Break in which I made this here website, I also penciled and inked a 5 page comic starring the girl in the previous blog entry (who is also in my gallery), named Ezra Neuro. It's a crazy thing, with a giant slug monster, a fire-breathing bag, and a hot tub. I'll be scanning it in this weekend and coloring it, in the hopes of getting it online next week! I'm excited for this, because as you can see, the last comic I really drew to completion is that 12-page mess, Dream Dive, which is also on this site. And I drew that back in what, 2007? Criminy, it's time to up the ante finally!
Anyways, this comic will be the start of some new stuff I'm gonna be doing. So, you know, don't go anywhere or you might miss out!
In other news, I recently finished reading Neuromancer, which is a most excellent novel, highly recommended. With that out of the way, I have dived into Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, which so far is basically nothing like the film adaptation, Blade Runner. It's better. Of course, the book always is, isn't it? And I'm slowly reading through From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddy Campbell's epic tome about Jack the Ripper. Dense stuff.
Also replaying No More Heroes 2, which so far is my personal videogame of the year.
...And um, that's about it. I have to finish a paper on the cinematography of the film Avalon. Um, the Polish/Japanese production, directed by Mamoru Oshii, not that other one that I know nothing about. Nevermind. AWAY.
[Brett]