website birth_place alias subcat awards nationality art cartoonist birth_date article_title birth_name
http://www.davegraphics.com nova scotia , canada hector mumbly canadian harvey award , 2000 ignatz award , 2000 canadian y y 1967 dave cooper
 david charles cooper
dave cooper

david charles cooper -lrb- born 1967 , nova scotia , canada -rrb- is a cartoonist , commercial illustrator and a graphic designer who lives in ottawa , canada .
in addition to 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 science fiction 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 really fantastic alien sex frenzy '' , lavishly illustrated stories that featured dark subject matter with incongruous `` cute '' touches such as letter i 's dotted with little circles .
-lrb- `` puke and explode '' has a cameo in the 1995 film `` crumb '' , when r. crumb and the former `` zap '' comix publisher briefly examine the cover in a comics store and then rather disdainfully passes it by .
robert remarks , `` god , these kids today ... '' -rrb- cooper also contributed to fantagraphics ' `` duplex planet illustrated '' .
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 '' -lrb- first serialized in the pages of `` zero zero '' -rrb- , 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 deluxe toys with the firm critterbox toys .
in september 2007 , cooper released his debut in the children 's book world under the pseudonym hector mumbly .
the book is titled `` bagel 's lucky hat '' .
-lrb- isbn 0-8118-4875-2 -rrb-
