I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.
I mean, this cover, that title: how could I not? I read Cooper’s “Closer” and Frisk” in the 90s, and it felt transgressive, dangerous: everything the world told me gayness was. This was also a heady time of increasing representation, navigating sex, morality, pleasure while narrowly missing AIDS’ clutches.
But Cooper’s only got one set of tricks, as it were. The same repugnant characters preying on each other … psych! 🥱