Bret Jordan's Page
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- Hometown:
- Vidor, Texas
- About Me:
- Bret Jordan is a resident of Southeast Texas. He began to draw at an early age, starting with the Peanuts characters. As he grew older his drawings turned to fantasy illustrations, mostly made for his Dungeons & Dragons adventures. After graduating high school Bret went on to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas majoring in Graphic Design. This lasted for several years until responsibilities, life, and the desire to do something besides study called him away. It was at this point that he maried his wife, Angela and began working as an instrument technician for the local refineries. Life carried on and over time Bret and his wife had three children, all girls. By this time Bret was programming computers and doing fantasy illustrations for a UK based RPG company by the name of Mongoose Publishing. When the fourth child arrived time was short and Bret had to quit the illustration business and just concentrate on family and his day job.
In 2006 Bret got into the illustration business again, in a field he had never thought of before, small press horror. His first illustrations were for Permuted Press' upcoming anthologies The Undead: Skin and Bones and The Undead: Flesh Feast. In the midst of drawing for Permuted Press Bret decided that he would try his hand at some more fantasy illustrations and got some work from Hero Games.
At this point not only did Bret resume his drawings but he also tried something that he had always wanted to do, but never thought he could, writing. He submitted a story to Dead Pages Press for the anthology Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (now handled by Graveside Tales). The story was accepted and he also got his first cover gig for that book. The story acceptance gave Bret the confidence to write more stories. Since then Bret has had two other stories accepted by Twisted Dreams Magazine.
Soon after that the work began to roll in. Bret has done three chapbook covers for Rainfall Records and Books, and a chapbook cover for Baysgarth Publishing.
As the covers were wrapped up on the Rainfall projects Dale Murphy contacted Bret about possibly doing some artwork for Graveside Tales. This led to one of the most rewarding things Bret has been involved with so far, being part of book publishing.
The best thing that came of all the drawings, writing, and small press involvement was the friends that Bret has made along the way, and seeing everyone helping everyone else as each and every one of the authors and artists travel into new territory.
- Website:
- http://www.bretjordan.com
- Favorite Authors
- Terry Brooks, Robert E. Howard, Brian Keene, Stephen King, Steven E. Wedel, Tom Deitz, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert, Richard Matheson, Ben Bova, Robert A. Heinlen, J..R.R. Tolkien, Tim Wagner, Anne Rice, Isaac Asimov, Micheal Moorcock, Stephen R. Donaldson, R.A. Salvatore
- Favorite Books
- Lord of the Ring, Shannara Series, Pet Semetery, Shara, Dune Series, I am Legend, The Road, World War Z, The Witching Hour, The Shining, Salem's Lot, Christine, The Rutting Season, Conqueror Worms, Dead Sea, Conan Series, Elric Saga, Thomas Covenant series
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“genre vs literary” in the days of the Technorenaissance
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I was hanging out in a writer’s forum and came across the age-old question of how do you define genre and literary? which always turns into genre vs literary: genre types bash the literati for lacking plot (which is absurd), while the literati bash the genre-ati for lacking everything else (equally absurd).
One person [...]
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When I grow up I want to be Bret Jordan.
Are you Bret Jordan or Bret Jordan?
And if you started off drawing Peanuts characters can you finally explain to me how Linus got the huge dent in his head? None of the other characters have it. It's like this unsolved mystery that has plagued me since childhood.
Ohhh, 'plagued'...almost like an intentional plug...
My favorite King movie...? Firestarter. And I haven't seen that since I was a teenager. Back then I had it copied on VHS, so I watched it a lot. Like Carrie, but a younger girl without the pig's blood.
8^D
~Jezzy
Hope your having a cool Sunday.
~Jess
Hope you had a good 4th!
It's great to see you again, as always, mi compadre!
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