“North Carolina has become an access point in the Southeast,” he told Brennan. Sarah Stevens, a Republican member of the General Assembly of the new legislation.Ĭooper characterized the measure as harmful to women’s health. It’s time to catch up with the science that affirms parenthood before birth,” said Rep. “The unborn will be recognized as having a fundamental right to be born, and mothers will get our unconditional support. North Carolina’s laws, until now at least, have made it something of an aberration in the South, where stricter abortion laws have gone into effect in the last year, since the 1973 Roe v. “They ran through a bill in 48 hours with no public input, with no amendments, that drastically reduces access to reproductive freedom for women,” said Cooper of the Republican lawmakers. He was one of the original designers for Fox's Futurama series, and lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife Julie.Cooper has vowed to veto the bill, but Republican legislators hold large majorities in both the General Assembly and state Senate and could override the veto. Author Biography: Dave Cooper is working on a number of children's books as well as a series of oil paintings and his award-winning comic, Weasel. 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. Throughout it all, Ripple is a complex love story poked and prodded from all 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.

Meanwhile, Tina's own motives behind working for Martin are slowly turned upside down as well, building the book towards its inevitably explosive end.

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. Over time, Martin and Tina's relationship evolves from a tenuous working relationship to a confused sexual one. 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. Martin is a floundering painter desperately attempting to pursue his fine art inclinations rather than toil in the world of commercial art. Unlike those works, Ripple is a highly realistic story in terms of subject matter and drawing style. A tortured psychodrama about a painter who becomes obsessed with his model.Ripple is a breakthrough graphic novel for Dave Cooper, creator of the wildly surreal and critically-acclaimed graphic novels Crumple and Suckle.

Ripple by Dave Cooper