Ciccia: Una predilezione per Tina #[nn]

Dave Cooper's unsettling yet fascinating work finds an Italian home with this Comma 22 edition of Ciccia: Una predilezione per Tina, featuring an introduction by David Cronenberg — a pairing that immediately signals the book's visceral, boundary-pushing sensibility. The cover presents Cooper's signature hyper-fleshy aesthetic in full force: a grotesquely expressive face rendered in warm ochres and pinks, all bulging flesh, bared teeth, and a grasping hand, painted with a disquieting tenderness. For readers drawn to comics that push at the edges of body horror and darkly intimate portraiture, this 2009 release is a compelling entry point into Cooper's singular vision.