Informationen zum Autor Dave Cooper is an animator, designer, and cartoonist who lives in Ontario, Canada. He has worked on Futurama, and co-created Pig Goat Banana Cricket for Nickelodeon. Klappentext "Ripple was originally serialized in numbers 1 through 5 of Dave's Fantagraphics comicbook series Weasel"--Copyright page. Zusammenfassung In Ripple! Martin is a floundering painter desperately attempting to pursue his fine-art inclinations rather than toil in the world of commercial art. He hires a model! Tina! to pose for a series of paintings he dubs "The Eroticism of Homeliness." Over time! their relationship evolves from a tenuous working relationship to a confused sexual entanglement. Martin's initial repulsion for Tina slowly turns to attraction! causing him to re-evaluate his own notions of beauty and sexuality. Tina's motives in working for Martin are slowly turned upside-down as well! leading toward the book's inevitable! explosive ending. Sad! funny! and often uncomfortably titillating! Ripple is rendered with kinetic realism.

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"Ripple was originally serialized in numbers 1 through 5 of Dave's Fantagraphics comicbook series Weasel"--Copyright page.

Zusammenfassung
In Ripple, Martin is a floundering painter desperately attempting to pursue his fine-art inclinations rather than toil in the world of commercial art. He hires a model, Tina, to pose for a series of paintings he dubs The Eroticism of Homeliness. Over time, their relationship evolves from a tenuous working relationship to a confused sexual entanglement. Martin's initial repulsion for Tina slowly turns to attraction, causing him to re-evaluate his own notions of beauty and sexuality. Tina's motives in working for Martin are slowly turned upside-down as well, leading toward the book's inevitable, explosive ending. Sad, funny, and often uncomfortably titillating, Ripple is rendered with kinetic realism.