Dave Cooper

David Charles Cooper (born 1967 in Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian cartoonist, commercial illustrator and a graphic designer who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. 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. He is also the co-creator of the Nickelodeon cartoon Pig Goat Banana Cricket.

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. (Puke and Explode has a cameo in the 1995 film Crumb, when R. Crumb and former Zap Comix comix publisher Don Donahue briefly examine the cover in a comics store and then Robert rather disdainfully pass it by. Robert himself remarks, "God, these kids today...") Cooper also contributed to Fantagraphics' Duplex Planet Illustrated.