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POSTER BOY is going to be huge (literally!) 11′ x 14″, 312 pages, this new book will focus on all of Coop’s rock and roll related work – gig posters, flyers, record covers and everything else associated with the last forty years that he’s been making art.
The larger format was chosen to really show off the 250+ silkscreen prints that he’s done over the years, with almost every one given a full page, all printed from new high-resolution photos of all the prints from his personal archive. We think they’re gonna look better in print than they ever have before!
For fans of his iconic devil character, to his tour posters and other unmistakable artwork, this book is a career retrospective for the generational artist Coop, and is recommended for mature readers.
ALL COPIES SIGNED BY COOP
Coop (Chris Cooper) is an American illustrator and hot rod artist from Austin, Texas. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1968, and describes his occupation as “Insensitive Artiste.” His work consists primarily of barely clothed or nude Bettie Page-style 1950s soft pornography and B-movie monsters, with the female characters often taking the role of “Devil-Women.” The image most often associated with his work however is the face of a grinning devil with a smoking cigar clamped in its teeth.
In 1991, pop artist Frank Kozik convinced Coop to expand into poster art. Coop has designed posters for rock bands such as Boss Hog, White Zombie, and Rocket from the Crypt, as well as for the Reverend Horton Heat, Lords of Acid, MxPx, Green Day, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Foo Fighters. Coop has illustrated the album cover artwork for Lords of Acid’s 1994 album Voodoo-U, NOFX’s 1995 album I Heard They Suck Live!!, Boyd Rice’s 1995 album Hatesville!, The Ramones’ 1997 album We’re Outta Here!, and various others. Coop has also provided cover art for numerous releases on the independent record labels Sympathy for the Record Industry and Reptilian Records and has designed the logo and most of the band merchandise for the novelty rock band The Go-Nuts.
