David Charles Cooper

Place: Shelburne

Born: 1967

Biography:

Dave Cooper is a Canadian cartoonist, oil painter and animator. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1967 and moved to Ottawa at the age of nine. Cooper began his career in the 90s making underground comics for Seattle's Fantagraphics Books. His periodical Weasel won both the underground Ignatz Award and the Harvey Award in 2000. He also worked as an oil painter, showing alternately at galleries in Los Angeles and New York City. Around 2008 Cooper turned his attention to animation, getting two of his original kids TV shows greenlit — Pig Goat Banana Cricket for Nickelodeon and The Bagel and Becky Show for Teletoon/BBC.