Afrenasia (series)

Afrenasia is an artistic project of brand whose primary designer is Grant Cool. Hosted at its own website, Afrenasia does not broadly come across as a work of fiction but merely an umbrella title for artwork created by Grant. The About page of the website does, however, posit a fictional multiversal framework for the images created.

This is the story of Afrenasia. Afrenasia is a 5th-dimensional concept object that regularly sends probes deep into 3-dimensional universes. It exists both inside and outside of time. Within various timestreams it has conceptualised itself as an island nation somewhere in south-east Asia, with its actual location shifting and never definite. It is a generator of ideas which it feeds to minds that make contact with it, thus dispersing the Afrenasia concept to new locations and situations. It is like a dream you swear is real, remembering fine details of location and conversation, but you have no idea how you got there, how you left or when it actually happened.

—Afrenasia: The Story

In 2002, Grant Cool illustrated one page of a never-continued Jenny Everywhere story, COMIC: Planet Pedro, which was hosted on the Afrenasia website and was commonly referred to as simply Afrenasia for decades due to the unusual font in which the actual title was written obscuring the fact that it did in fact have a standalone title. Although the comic was cut short before any potential link to the aforementioned in-universe Afrenasia concept could be drawn - an unlikely possibility given the fact that the script was completed by Elton Mesquita before Grant Cool had signed onto the project - the title was written in the same font as the logo still used on the website as of 2021.