Welcome David Cooper!

Dave Cooper will take part ot the Urban Superstar Show 2010.
Dave Cooper espone a Urban Superstar Show 2010.
David Charles Cooper (b.1967) lives and works in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to paintings and comics, Cooper has worked extensively as a designer, producer, and creator in the field of animation. Several of his designs were used on Futurama, notably various areas of the Planet Express office.
Cooper became a published cartoonist in his teens, creating sci-fi comics stories for Barry Blair's Aircel Comics. After gradually giving up working for Aircel, Cooper spent a few years in a band before eventually returning to comics. In his 20s he created books such as Puke and Explode and Cynthia Petal's Alien Sex Frenzy, lavishly illustrated stories that featured dark subject matter with incongruous "cute" touches such as letter i's dotted with little circles. With Suckle, his graphic novel published in 1997, Cooper broke through to a new level of critical acclaim with the story of an innocent, childlike fellow, Basil, who is confronted by strange, sexualized horrors in a futuristic world. It was nominated for the Harvey Award. He followed this up with the even darker book Crumple (first serialized in the pages of Zero Zero), about a square-headed little man in a world ultimately overrun by militant feminists, and the multi-issue series Weasel, which featured the ongoing story Ripple, about a frustrated illustrator who enters an obsessive relationship with one of his models. With each book, Cooper's work grew darker in subject matter while more accomplished visually. During this time, Cooper also contributed to Nickelodeon's children's magazine along with other anthologies. He also created a line of art toys with the firm Critterbox Toys.
He paints sexy but disturbing portraits of chubbyish women with overbites (or, as he has put it, "mostly pillowy girls").
In September 2007, Cooper released his debut in the children's bookworld (Bagel's Lucky Hat is the book) under the pseudonym Hector Mumbly.

David Charles Cooper (1967) vive e lavora a Ottawa, Canada. Oltre ai quadri e ai comics, Copper ha lavorato per anni come designer, produttore e creatore nel campo dell'animazione. Diversi dei suoi disegni sono stati utilizzati per Futurama, per diverse zone delPlanet Express Office. Cooper ha cominciato a pubblicare i propri comics giovanissimo, creando storie sci-fi per la Barry Blair's Aircels Comics. Dopo aver suonato per dverso tempo con una band, Cooper ritorna ai comics con Puke & Explode e Cynthia Petal's Alien Sex Frenzy, strie che presentavano soggetti dark ma con con incongruenti tocchi " cute".Con Suckle, la sua graphic novel pubblicata nel 1997, Cooper viene acclamato dalla critica grazi alla storia di Basil, innocente e infantile, che deve cofrontarsi con uno strano, futuristico mondo pieno di "sexualized horrors". Suckle è stato nominato per l'Harvey Award. Il successivo Crumple, pubblicato prima nelle pagine di Zero Zero, racconta la storia di piccolo uomo dalla testa decisamente squadrata in un mondo dominato da femministe militanti; nella serie Weasel appare Ripple, racconto di un illustratore fristrato che entra in una relazione ossessiva cn una delle sue modelle. In ogni nuovo libro, il lavoro di Cooper diventa sempre più dark, mentre il segno diviente sempre più completo e raffinato. Nello stesso periodo Cooper ha contribuito al magazine per bambini della Nickelodeon oltre ad aver creato una linea di toys con la Critter Box. Cooper dipinge sexy ma disturbanti ristratti di paffute ragazze che lui definisce "cuscinose". Nel settembre del 2007 Coooper ha realizzato il suo primo libro per bambini Bagel's Lucky Hat con lo psudonimo di Hector Mumbly.

Painting Courtesy ©Dave Cooper