{{short description|American cartoonist}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2010}} {{Other people|Greg Cook}} '''Greg Cook''' is an underground cartoonist and comic book artist who has been published in ''Nickelodeon Magazine'', ''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, Illinois, graduated at the Art Institute in 1995, and now works as a newspaper reporter and artist/illustrator. His book ''Catch as Catch Can''<ref>{{cite news|title=The "Reportage, Memoir and Comics" Panel from MoCCA|publisher=Comic Book Resources|date=July 5, 2007|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=10698|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616204829/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=10698|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref> was published by Highwater Books in 2001. Cook lived in Chicago for almost 10 years and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.<ref name="Greg Cook">{{cite web|title=Greg's Biography Land|url=http://www.gregcookland.com/about.html|publisher=Greg Cook|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref>
==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, as well as Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, Naples, Italy, and Angoulême, France. In 2003–2004, Cook's work toured the United States 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.<ref name="Greg Cook" />
==Awards== Cook received the "Promising New Talent" Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda and in Maryland the following year.<ref name="Greg Cook" />
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==External links== *[http://www.gregcookland.com Greg Cook's Official Website] *[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cook_g.htm Entry in the Lambiek Comiclopedia] *[http://gregcookland.com/journal/2007/04/trecker-leaving-monsterrat.html ''The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research'']
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