David Cook, AKA Bonethrower, granted himself permission to be an artist. Nobody hired him to do it, he didn’t win a scholarship, he doesn’t come from a privileged family, or hell, even a hip art scene. David just decided one day that he would simply make his daydream into his day job. And even though it wasn’t easy, he never looked back, he never gave up and never stopped dreaming and drawing. He just simply did it. He did it over and over again until he got good, until people started to notice, and until he finally got hired to do it. It’s a classic tale of showing the world who you want to be, and then becoming that person. That’s how my punk rock childhood friend from Louisville, Kentucky became Bonethrower, a successful illustrator and visual artist living in Los Angeles, California.