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Katie Cook is an American comic artist and writer, currently employed by
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. She writes the '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' comic and is also known for her webcomics, ''Gronk'' and ''Nothing Special''.


Early life

Katie Cook was born in
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on December 9, 1981. Cook grew up in Saline, Michigan and graduated from Saline High School in 2000. She graduated from the
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in
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, with BFA in Illustration in 2004. Cook created her title character of ''Gronk: A Monster’s Story'' during her time in college.


Career

She has worked on licensed properties for
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on a variety of projects. She also worked with the
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, working on the comics of ''
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'' and working as an illustrator and writer on '' Jim Henson's The Storyteller.'' She is well known for her ''Star Wars'' artwork and contributes to the official starwars.com blog. More recently though, she acted as the writer (along with artist
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) behind many of the bestselling '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'', a comic based on the popular children's TV show of the same name. The comic has been considered highly successful as the best selling IDW comic and has been cited as helping to boost the area of comics aimed for children; Cook's contributions placed her on ''
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''s Top 100 Power List of people in the comic book industry for 2013. Cook has also worked with DC. At comics conventions, Cook is known for selling 3"x4" ink and water color mini-paintings for $10. She brings many of these small paintings with her, but also takes custom requests which she creates in minutes.


''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic''

Cook received an offer from IDW to write for the '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' graphic novel series after tweeting to her followers about the television show of the same name. Together with
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, Cook worked as the author for the main series as well as parts of the micro-series of the ''My Little Pony'' comics. In the main series, she has contributed to various issues starting with Issues 1 through 4, Issues 9 through 12, and Issues 11 through 12, Issues 17 through 20, Issues 25 through 28, Issues 34 through 37, and Issue 41 to 42. For the micro-series, Cook has written for Issue 3 and Issue 10. Cook’s contributions to the My Little Pony comic book series have received mostly positive reviews. In addition to creating storylines for the comic books, Cook has provided various cover art and inset art for the comic books.


''Marvel'' comics

Cook has contributed multiple stories to the
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franchise. One of the books she contributed to is graphic novel ''Secret Wars: Secret Love,'' which focuses around
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characters all in bug-form. The final story within the graphic novel, called “Happy Ant-iversary”, is written and illustrated by Cook. The story follows the character Wasp, in the form of an actual wasp, as she flies around Central Park. Cook has also contributed to Volume 1 of ''Spider-Verse''. Cook wrote, penciled, and inked the fourth story in the novel, “Penelope Parker”, which introduces schoolgirl Penelope Parker, who is bitten by a spider in a tale similar to
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’s origins. Cook wrote the final story, “The Smashy Adventures of the Hulk”, which appears as a separate story from the main story of ''I Am An Avenger #3.'' In the one-page comic, the Hulk endures grief after receiving a “notice of termination” in regards to his membership on The Avengers. Cook was the illustrator for short story “How We Roll” part of graphic novel ''Avengers Vs X-Men'' Volume 1. In addition, Cook has designed covers for Marvel.


''Gronk: A Monster’s Story''

Cook wrote a webcomic entitled ''Gronk: A Monster’s Story'' and published comics to the comic’s website from April 30, 2010 to April 2, 2015. ''Gronk: A Monster’s Story'' was transferred to a paperback comic book which contains comics originally seen on the website. On the backend of the book, Cook wrote of ''Gronk: A Monster’s Story,'' “An all-ages weekly comic that follows Gronk. A little green monster that has shunned master life. She finds a home with Dale. A young nerd-lady who teaches gronk the ways of her world.”


''Nothing Special''

Cook is currently producing
Nothing Special
' as an ongoing weekly webcomic on Webtoon. The webcomic is set in a fantastical land and follows teenagers Callie and Declan, who begin a friendship after they discover that they both share visions of spirits. Callie and Declan start their adventure when Callie's father goes missing and they enter a portal to a different and strange world to find him. The Nothing Special webtoon has been on indefinite hiatus since January of 2022 and there is no word on when Cook will return to it.


Other works

Cook has written two children's books which help children learn the ABCs and learn how to count. The former is called ''ABC-3PO'' and the latter ''OBI-123.'' Cook wrote the short story “Time Flew” within the first issue of ''Fraggle Rock,'' a comic based on a television show of the same name, part of the Muppets franchise. Cook returned to the series for the third issue, writing the short story “My Gift is My Song”. Cook provided illustrations for the first and third issue and provided cover art for the second issue of ''Fraggle Rock''. Cook has worked with
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and Cook provided artwork for ''Jim Henson’s The Storyteller.'' Cook also makes artwork for the WonderGround Gallery in
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, part of Downtown Disney. In 2018, Cook published her tutorial book entitle
''Drawing Cute with Katie Cook''


Personal life

Cook currently lives in the
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area with her husband, Ryan, and their daughters. Cook attends Comic Cons and often teaches "how to draw" workshops or discusses her career in comics while there.


References


External links

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''Gronk'' webcomic official site

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Katie 1981 births Living people American female comics artists American comics writers Marvel Comics writers DC Comics people Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan American webcomic creators Artists from Ann Arbor, Michigan People from Saline, Michigan