One of fav comic artist!!! His "trilogy" Suckle/Crumple/Ripple is the mainstay of DC work for me, but all of the other books are worth having. My last acquisition, is Pillowy, a hefty and beautiful thing to have. A comprehensive collection of DC stuff, isn't complete without his designer toys made by critterbox in 2000's. I also agree, that a Eddie Table compilation, is still due to all DC fans. Congrats
You guys make great choices for video subjects! Cooper's aesthetic was original, and his weasel was one of the best. Next you should do Ivan Brunetti's Schizo!
as a kid growing up in the Indie boom (then glut) i just luved aircel especially dragonring, elflord and warlock 5. dave coopers "Icarus" was my least favorite. i avoided his stuff like the plague. flash forward 40 years and i'm drooling over his work. over the last several years i've located aircels "power" "Bodycount"and "Mutant zone" + all his aircel back up stories. I'm currently branching out to pied piper of hamelin, puke and explode, a big someplace and pressed tongue. This man is such a genius! sad it took me so long to appreciate.
Ripple was reprinted in a nice oversized hardcover by Fantagaphics in 2017, The art looks unpixelated to me in that one but I never noticed it in my original issues either so I might not be the best judge. Also a publisher called Cernunnos published a beautiful artbook of him last year called "Pillowy: The art of Dave Cooper", well worth checking out.
Catching up on episodes that I hadn’t watched and just saw the Wordless Comics episode which touches on McEown’s No Escape. Figured you gentlemen were wise to all corners of comics goodness. You didn’t disappoint.
Great video, as usual. Cooper is great and you guys did him justice. I just wanted to take a moment to expand on another guy you mentioned in the video, Pat McEown. His comics work has been brilliant but a bit sporadic, mainly because he worked a lot in animation and education. The thing I really like about his work is the broad range he showed. Some of his anthology stuff is very much in the Cooper vein, whille his Grendel or Hair Shirt stuff each had their own feel. My favorite is the Mignola written Zombie World mini he did that was a weird mash up of Tin Tin and Cthulhu. Still hold that work in high regard. Definitely the kind of under appreciated artist that deserves the Kayfabe microscope. (Note: don’t know the guy, never met him, just love his work)
The Eddy Table book and animation piece go together. At least that is what Dave told me at TCAF one year. In the book Eddy disappears into the forest, and the video is what happens to him in the forest. At least that is what I think I remember...
Always intrigued by McKeown... great, properly funny strip in the Scatterbrain anthology and Hair Shirt is something I always go back to. A fine talk as always.
I’m such a Geek ..... I found this writer today! I wish I could read all his work man how did I miss this!? Funny story how I found this writer... I was going to rewatch all five seasons of the IT crowd and realized from the first time I washed it I absolutely loved their art and clothing that they would wear and also the pieces in the background. Anyhoo the Richard Ayoade character In the first episode answers his phone in the background there’s this weird little character on the shelf and you can read his name me thinking that it was just a cheeky prop I googled it and it turns out it’s a character from David Cooper as I dig and dig I found out this guy comes from another series of David’s and just recently like 2019 there a short done with this character and I absolutely loved so I did more digging brought me here. Somehow I’m going to try to find a compilation of his works so I married them thanks guys for all the great information given in this video you get a thumbs up from me 😄
When I was a kid, like preteen era, those Suckle/Crumple books seemed real disturbing to me when I'd see them at the comic store. Real "adult" with just gross color schemes. You should do a Renee French episode.
Imagine; you meet some nice folks at a bar, and they invite you to their friends (swank) apparent. Once you get there it slowly sinks in, that you're familiar with all of this persons work. That happened to me. With Dave Cooper, and another time at Bob Camp's house.
Craft question. Ed was talking about the pixilation of some pages. Jim mentioned anti-aliasing and Ed specifically mentioned a 600 dpi scan. Is 600 dpi too low for a certain type of scan? Do you guys scan in your pages at a higher DPI? I mean, print, is only like 300 right? So if you scan it in at higher res, does it matter that much in reduction? (I could be using some wrong terms here)
I scan my lineart at 600 dpi, RGB and save that as an uncompressed TIFF. Then I convert it to grayscale, adjust levels, adjust size, and create a layer of line art. If I'm going to color it, I'll convert it to CMYK and color it. If I'm printing it as 1 color, I convert it to back to grayscale. Then convert it to bitmap at 1200 dpi using 50% threshold. The print result is a crisp, clean, sharp edge (if that's what the line is in the original art). - Jim
@@CartoonistKayfabe Thanks Jim! (Oh, and you should have So Buttons 11 in your mailbox imminently if you haven't gotten it already! Hope you like your cover in print!). How did you learn these scanning tricks? Did you read Jordan Crane's repro guide back in the day?
Codex Seraphinianus - also brilliant!
One of fav comic artist!!! His "trilogy" Suckle/Crumple/Ripple is the mainstay of DC work for me, but all of the other books are worth having. My last acquisition, is Pillowy, a hefty and beautiful thing to have. A comprehensive collection of DC stuff, isn't complete without his designer toys made by critterbox in 2000's. I also agree, that a Eddie Table compilation, is still due to all DC fans. Congrats
Fascinating conversation about an incredible artist. Top shelf.👍👏👏
You guys make great choices for video subjects! Cooper's aesthetic was original, and his weasel was one of the best. Next you should do Ivan Brunetti's Schizo!
as a kid growing up in the Indie boom (then glut) i just luved aircel especially dragonring, elflord and warlock 5. dave coopers "Icarus" was my least favorite. i avoided his stuff like the plague. flash forward 40 years and i'm drooling over his work. over the last several years i've located aircels "power" "Bodycount"and "Mutant zone" + all his aircel back up stories. I'm currently branching out to pied piper of hamelin, puke and explode, a big someplace and pressed tongue. This man is such a genius! sad it took me so long to appreciate.
Ripple was reprinted in a nice oversized hardcover by Fantagaphics in 2017, The art looks unpixelated to me in that one but I never noticed it in my original issues either so I might not be the best judge. Also a publisher called Cernunnos published a beautiful artbook of him last year called "Pillowy: The art of Dave Cooper", well worth checking out.
Catching up on episodes that I hadn’t watched and just saw the Wordless Comics episode which touches on McEown’s No Escape. Figured you gentlemen were wise to all corners of comics goodness. You didn’t disappoint.
Great video, as usual. Cooper is great and you guys did him justice. I just wanted to take a moment to expand on another guy you mentioned in the video, Pat McEown. His comics work has been brilliant but a bit sporadic, mainly because he worked a lot in animation and education. The thing I really like about his work is the broad range he showed. Some of his anthology stuff is very much in the Cooper vein, whille his Grendel or Hair Shirt stuff each had their own feel. My favorite is the Mignola written Zombie World mini he did that was a weird mash up of Tin Tin and Cthulhu. Still hold that work in high regard. Definitely the kind of under appreciated artist that deserves the Kayfabe microscope. (Note: don’t know the guy, never met him, just love his work)
I love that Zombie World mini, because the art is just incredible. Would love to know more about Pat.
Would love to see you guys do an overview of the comics journal interview with dave.
The Eddy Table book and animation piece go together. At least that is what Dave told me at TCAF one year. In the book Eddy disappears into the forest, and the video is what happens to him in the forest. At least that is what I think I remember...
I really love his style. Reminds me a lot of John kricfalusi
this Spümco style resonates a lot in Nick Cross, which ended up animating *Pig Goat Banana Mantis* pilot for Nickelodeon.
Totally in kricfalusi lane. I got the same vibe. Also some Robert Crumb influence
Always intrigued by McKeown... great, properly funny strip in the Scatterbrain anthology and Hair Shirt is something I always go back to. A fine talk as always.
I think I first came across Dave Cooper in an issue of Heavy Metal in the mid 90's. It definitely made an impression
I’m such a Geek ..... I found this writer today! I wish I could read all his work man how did I miss this!? Funny story how I found this writer... I was going to rewatch all five seasons of the IT crowd and realized from the first time I washed it I absolutely loved their art and clothing that they would wear and also the pieces in the background. Anyhoo the Richard Ayoade character In the first episode answers his phone in the background there’s this weird little character on the shelf and you can read his name me thinking that it was just a cheeky prop I googled it and it turns out it’s a character from David Cooper as I dig and dig I found out this guy comes from another series of David’s and just recently like 2019 there a short done with this character and I absolutely loved so I did more digging brought me here. Somehow I’m going to try to find a compilation of his works so I married them thanks guys for all the great information given in this video you get a thumbs up from me 😄
11:07: The codex seraphinus?
YES! We'll be sure not to remember that "S" word when it comes up next time, though.
@@CartoonistKayfabe Definitely be worth pulling out and flipping through, it's goddamn bonkers. Interesting artist.
I'd love the Kayfabe treatment on the Codex. I thought this book was a myth but it's just as bat-shiat crazy as it looks.
hi from Scotland. thanks for all your hard work. best comics channel by miles : )
When I was a kid, like preteen era, those Suckle/Crumple books seemed real disturbing to me when I'd see them at the comic store. Real "adult" with just gross color schemes. You should do a Renee French episode.
tumblrtwopointoh yeah I own both and they’re pretty out there, a little disturbing, but I love his art so it’s a good trade off haha
Are there any other comics like No Escape. That was pretty fantastic!
Imagine; you meet some nice folks at a bar, and they invite you to their friends (swank) apparent. Once you get there it slowly sinks in, that you're familiar with all of this persons work.
That happened to me. With Dave Cooper, and another time at Bob Camp's house.
Very cool, cheers fellas!
do you guys have that vimeo short film link that Jim was talking about?
The Absence of Eddy Table: vimeo.com/356273024
The character on the suckle cover looks like a Rick and Morty character
Also, the Encyclopedia Nonsensica was supposedly real prose. A fan broke the code...
Craft question. Ed was talking about the pixilation of some pages. Jim mentioned anti-aliasing and Ed specifically mentioned a 600 dpi scan. Is 600 dpi too low for a certain type of scan? Do you guys scan in your pages at a higher DPI? I mean, print, is only like 300 right? So if you scan it in at higher res, does it matter that much in reduction? (I could be using some wrong terms here)
I scan my lineart at 600 dpi, RGB and save that as an uncompressed TIFF. Then I convert it to grayscale, adjust levels, adjust size, and create a layer of line art. If I'm going to color it, I'll convert it to CMYK and color it. If I'm printing it as 1 color, I convert it to back to grayscale. Then convert it to bitmap at 1200 dpi using 50% threshold. The print result is a crisp, clean, sharp edge (if that's what the line is in the original art). - Jim
@@CartoonistKayfabe Thanks Jim! (Oh, and you should have So Buttons 11 in your mailbox imminently if you haven't gotten it already! Hope you like your cover in print!). How did you learn these scanning tricks? Did you read Jordan Crane's repro guide back in the day?
Show him the 'nutha stuff!
11:43 I remember this photo of his dad's apparatus for his fucked up back. Found it flic.kr/p/b2vyL
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