Dave Cooper

Dave Cooper (born the November 7th 1967 with Shelburne) is an author of cartoons and Canadian painter of English expression.

Biography

Between 1981 and 1987, the sales of the small editors know an enormous growth in Canada. To avoid the request, the publisher Aircel urges any person likely to hold a pencil; at thirteen years, Dave Cooper belongs to the elected officials. The young draftsman works during a few years on several titles of superman and passes beside the movement of the autoédition carried out by Canadian authors such Chester Brown ( Yummy Fur ) and Julie Doucet ( Dirty Plotte ). It is only with the beginning of the year 1990 that Dave Cooper discovers works of Robert Crumb, Joe Matt, Daniel Clowes, Peter Bagge but especially the album ED The Happy Clown of Chester Brown. This cartoon opens the eyes on the possibilities of the medium and influence to him strongly her first baptized graphic novels Suckle (1996) and Crumple (2000).

In parallel, he works at Dark Horse where he draws accounts of Grendel , Hellboy Junior , Mask or Godzilla . It is in this same editor that Dave Cooper is tested in 1998 with the autobiography through the account daN & Larry . It evokes in this dark history where memories and phantasms mix the sexual harassment which a person in charge of Aircel made him undergo whereas it was still adolescent.

In August 1999, Dave Cooper reaches a new stage in its creative course by publishing the first number of its series Weasel at Fantagraphics Books. Each number of this series is composed of short chapters of eclectic projects. The Encyclopedia Nonsensica côtoie the episodes vaudevillesques of Eddy Counts there and those much more realistic of Ripple: With Predilection for Tina . This last project, republished in the form of graphic novel by Fantagraphics, ensures a great recognition to him. The success of a book of art dedicated to its fabrics however pushes it to launch out in very an other way. Dave Cooper is devoted today entirely to painting, the design of toys and the books for children. The Festival of Angouleme dedicated an exposure in 2005 to him.

Works published

English cartoons

  • Suckle, The Status off Basil , Fantagraphics Books, 1996
  • daN & Larry , prepublication in the Dark Horse Present numbers 128 to 132, Dark Horse, 1998
  • Weasel numbers 1 to 5, Fantagraphics Books, 1999-2002
  • daN & Larry in: Don' T C That! , compilation of the boards prépubliées at Dark Horse, Fantagraphics Books, 2001
  • Crumple, The Status off Knuckle , Fantagraphics Books, 2001
  • Completely Pip & Norton volume one , Dark Horse, 2002
  • Ripple: predilection for Tina , Fantagraphics Books, 2003
has

Cartoons translated into French

Art books

  • Overbite: Painting and Drawings off Mostly Pillowy Girls , Fantagraphics Books, 2002
  • Underbelly: Additional Observations one the Beauty/Ugliness off Mostly Pillowy Girls , Fantagraphics Books, 2005

Notes & references

  • Discussion with Dave Cooper, in The Comics Newspaper , number 245

External bonds

  • Official site of Dave Cooper

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