Weasel Number Two

Weasel #2

by Dave Cooper

Martin hires a homely model to pose for a series of 'erotic' paintings.

Genres: Comics

Comic

First published December 1, 1999

About the author

Dave Charles Cooper is a Canadian cartoonist, painter and animator.
Cooper was born in Nova Scotia in 1967 and grew up in Ottawa, where he still lives.
He began his career in underground comics in the early 90's . His most notable works are Weasel (2000, Fantagraphics), winner of an Ignatz Award and a Harvey Award in 2000, and Ripple (2003, Fantagraphics). A retrospective of his comic artwork took place in Angoulême and Paris in 2002.
In the 2000's Dave moved to painting and animation. His oil paintings have been shown at galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Madrid. In animation, Cooper has developed the tv shows Pig Boat Banana Cricket for Nickelodeon, The Bagel and Becky Show for Teletoon/BBC and the short adult film the Absence of Teddy Table.

Reviews

[Dave Riley · Rating 4 out of 5]

It don't get more fleshy than "Weasel" drawn by Dave Cooper. Maybe it isn't a 'nice' story. Maybe it is indeed a story of sexual obsession but I have to say I respect it for its honesty. So in a way I see a lot of merit in "Weasel #2" despite what seems a perverse interest in flesh.

It's organic. Very strange. But Cooper draws you i enough that you begin to respect the yearning being explored.