Dave Cooper

A Predilection for Tina

Ripple

The Alchemist is the mystic story of Santiago, who is a young and adventurous Andalusian shepherd boy. Santiago desires to travel in pursuit of a worldly treasure as profligate as any ever found. He hailed from Spain and journeyed to the markets of Tangiers through the Egyptian desert where he had a fateful encounter with the alchemist. He is troubled with a recurring dream he has each time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grew out of the relics of a church. Throughout the dream, a child speaks to him to search for treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. He made consultation with a gypsy woman to construe the dream, and to his surprise she articulates that he should go to Egypt. Melchizedek, who is represented as an outlandish, magical old man and claimed to be the King of Salem repeated the advice of the gypsy woman and told Santiago that it is his Personal Legend to travel to the pyramids. Melchizedek influenced Santiago to sell his flock and set off to Tangier. On arrival to Tangier, a thief robs Santiago forcing him to look for work with a local crystal merchant. The conventional and kindhearted merchant teaches Santiago numerous lessons, and Santiago emboldens the merchant to take possibilities with his business. The risks pay off, and Santiago turns into a wealthy man within a year.

By Paulo Coelho - Summary and Analysis

The Alchemist

Riding that fine edge between the sickening and the humorous, Dave Cooper's wavy, almost vibrating line technique and parallel-universe story will make you hope the future doesn't come too quickly. Originally serialised in Zero Zero, Crumple is stuffed with lesbians, half-breeds, alien invasions and the story of a guy named Knuckle as he stumbles through heartbreak and forced ejaculation with his mysoginistic friend Zev. High production values and Cooper's unique design sense make this second installment in the SUCKLECRUMPLERIPPLE triptych''

The Status of Knuckle

Crumple

Cult cartoonist Dave Cooper returns to comics with this suite of stories about brain-damaged Amazons, black shiny eels, and much more. This is the first new graphic novel by fan favorite Dave Cooper in more than 15 years Eddy Table, the star of Mudbite, first appeared in Cooper’s award-winning underground comics series, Weasel. Mudbitecompiles two all-new Eddy Table stories, “Mud River” and “Bug Bite,” in which Eddy acts as Dave’s alter ego. In “Mud River,” Eddy makes a foolish mistake, causing a sweet, innocent Amazon to bonk her head, turning her into a very impressionable automaton. In “Bug Bite,” Eddy has brought his family on a vacation to Europe, but he’s soon distracted by a series of manifestations of his own obsessions ― voluptuous women, mysterious and collectible “microdevices,” and a strange, impromptu jam session.

Mudbite

Timothy Zahn

John Wagner

John Nadeau

Carlos Ezquerra

Michael A Stackpole

P Craig Russell

Kilian Plunkett

Ron Randall

Dr Steve Perry

Tom Simmons

Cary Porter

Dave Nestelle

School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences Michael Taylor

Steve Dutto

Between 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'The Return of the Jedi', heroes and villains alike lived in the shadows of the Empire. While Princess Leia tries to foil Boba Fett's plan to deliver the carbonite-encased Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt, Darth Vader scours the galaxy for his son Luke Skywalker.

Shadows of the Empire

This is a collection of drawings and paintings of caricatured women created by artist Dave Cooper.

Paintings & Drawings of Mostly Pillowy Girls

Dave Cooper's Overbite

Pillowy: The Art of Dave Cooper (Collector's Edition)

Gavin McInnes

Pip & Norton have been together for nearly as long as Ernie & Bert, but not as long as Sylvester & Tweety. They've existed for much longer than there have been comic-book stories written about them. By the time that happened, they had their schtick totally nailed. This graphic novel includes all their best work plus their first appearance in the Dark Horse anthology Scatterbrain.

Completely Pip and Norton

Ripple is a breakthrough graphic novel for Dave Cooper, creator of the wildly surreal and critically-acclaimed graphic novels Crumple and Suckle. Unlike those works, Ripple is a highly realistic story in terms of subject matter and drawing style. Martin is a floundering painter desperately attempting to pursue his fine art inclinations rather than toil in the world of commercial art. He hires a homely model, Tina, to pose for a series of "erotic" paintings that he hopes will be his breakthrough into the gallery world. Over time, Martin and Tina's relationship evolves from a tenuous working relationship to a confused sexual one. Martin's initial repulsion for Tina slowly turns to attraction and eventually lust, causing him to re-evaluate his own notions of beauty and sexuality. Meanwhile, Tina's own motives behind working for Martin are slowly turned upside down as well, building the book towards its inevitably explosive end. Throughout it all, Ripple is a complex love story poked and prodded fromall angles, from Martin and Tina's physical and emotional feelings toward each other, Martin's dishonesty to himself, Tina's self-loathing, and everything in between. Sad, funny, and often uncomfortably titillating, Ripple is a remarkably introspective graphic novel, rendered with kinetic realism in a pen technique that calls to mind a more controlled Edward Sorel and Jules Feiffer.

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