Book description
In April 2012, English animator Joe Butcher discovered he could send
text messages to HIMSELF on his mobile phone. Naturally, Butcher decided
that the best use for this feature would be to send passive aggressive
messages to his fictional alter ego October Jones, under the guise of
Cooper, his British Bulldog. A classic tale of Man & Dog for the
gadget driven internet generation. After taking screenshots of his
canine conversations, Butcher posted them to his 10,000 Twitter
followers, then created a Tumblr, which attracted over 80,000 followers
in a month. Now the further exploits of Dog and his weary owner have
been brought together in this hilarious book, which includes over 100
texts not seen on the website. 'Brilliant' Joe Butcher (October
Jones) was born and raised in Birmingham, England. Ironically, he spent
most of his childhood terrified of dogs. Joe developed a keen interest
in visual storytelling at school, and he attended the University of
Wolverhampton where he came away with a shiny first class degree in
animation. Joe eventually landed a job at a small media company in
Derby, where to this day he designs learning software for kids. He has
recently worked on animation projects for the BBC, as well as doing
music videos for UK comedy band 'The Amateur Transplants' Despite being
almost 30 years old, Joe has wonderful Lego S. tar Wars collection and
no girlfriend. These two facts are not connected. He currently lives in
Stourbridge with his bulldog 'Cooper'.
