Dave Cooper's Overbite: Paintings & Drawings of Mostly Pillowy Girls

Edition excerpt from Dave Cooper's Overbite: Paintings & Drawings of Mostly Pillowy Girls (2003): Subtitled "Drawings and Paintings of Mostly Pillowy Girls," Overbite is a hardcover art book featuring forty of Cooper's gorgeous oil paintings, each focusing on the female form. Cooper's vibrant use of color in the lavish, textured rendering he uses to depict his favored body type—"pillowy" is a particularly apt descriptive—calls to mind a more colorful and surreal version of R. Crumb's obsessive and sumptuous portraits of women. This book also doubles as the sixth "issue" of Cooper's ongoing comic book series, Weasel, though as a stand-alone hardcover art book it bears little relation to the first five issues; it functions much better as a catalog for upcoming and recent exhibitions of Cooper's in Philadelphia, Ottawa, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The book features an introduction by David Cross, of HBO's Mr. Show fame. Our web store won't be receiving any more stock of Dave Cooper's Overbite: Paintings & Drawings of Mostly Pillowy Girls, but you may be able to find it from a site like Indiebound or Bookshop , or at your local independent bookstore.