About

Who am I?

Me, sort of.

My name is Katy Coope (Though online I often go by ‘KT’) and I’m a 25 year old artist/author/web designer type person currently living in England. I was born in Derbyshire, and went to university in Hull for 4 years, where I got a first class BA Hons in English Literature and Philosophy, and an MA in Contemporary Literature and Film.

What do I do?

I draw stuff and write things. More specifically I’m a cartoonist and illustrator, and take my influences both from manga and western comics. My recent writing has mostly been in educational or academic areas, but I also have a number of other projects in the works. I also run workshops for kids on the basics of manga art, at schools, libraries and literature festivals. You can see more of what kind of thing I’m doing on my Work Page, Sketchblog and DeviantArt Page. I also love coding and web design. If you would like a commission or would like to work with me, please get in touch!

What have I done already?

Most recently, I joined Collins’ Big Cat Range with ‘How To Make Manga Characters’, which came out September 2008 and was shortlisted for the 2009 Society of Authors’ Educational Writers Prize 2009. Since then I have run a number of successful workshops, at literature festivals including Scarborough and Middlesbrough, and with CYC’s CultureShock and AfterShock festivals. I am also a member of the youth Trad arts gang, Shooting Roots. I had my first book ‘How To Draw Manga’ published by Scholastic when I was 16 and produced a follow up, ”How to Draw More Manga” two years later. Since then I have been developing my work on various projects and private commissions.

What do I like?

My favourite genres are SF, crime fiction and urban fantasy/mythic realism/whatever you call it when normal life gets touched by the strange. I love books, comics and film in general, especially things with metafictional, philosophical or otherwise slightly bizarre tendencies. As well as all that, I also love music, philosophy and computer games. Oh, and I may be slightly obsessed with tea and coffee. And goggles. Slightly.