COOP SKETCHBOOK 01 Cover & Silkscreen Poster Art -Starcrash (Coop)

SKETCHBOOK 01 Cover (2020 Release).

This is the cover to Coop's first new sketchbook collection since 2002! This image is from the infamous Star Wars knockoff classic STARCRASH, with the breathtaking Caroline Munro as STELLA STAR and her trusty ally policeman robot ELLE (Judd Hamilton).

This 48-page sketchbook collects recent sketches and preliminary drawings. Limited to 500 copies, signed and numbered. 8.5 in. x 5.5 in. 48 pages with wraparound cover. Signed and numbered edition of 500.

This art was also used by the record store “Fond Object Records” (Nashville, TN) for a Record Store Day 2015 Limited Edition Silkscreen Poster.

Coop (real name Christopher Cooper) is a famous hot rod & pinup artist. His work consists primarily of Bettie Page-style 1950s pinup girls 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.

Coop has become popular with many bands and labels and has provided art for several Sympathy for the Record Industry releases as well as the posters for The Reverend Horton Heat, Lords of Acid, MxPx, Green Day, Nirvana, The Mummies, The Raunch Hands, Soundgarden and Foo Fighters to name just a few.

Coop is an avid hot rod & Kaiju enthusiast and well known amongst the Kustom Kulture community as well as vinyl toy collectors. He’s also an accomplished erotic photographer.

He released a book in 2001 called Devil's Advocate: The Art of Coop. In 2002 he released The Big Fat One, containing 1008 pages of collected sketches, and formed a collaboration with Hot Wheels to sell a series of miniature "Coop-Customized" hot rods. His next art book, Idle Hands, was published in 2012 by Baby Tattoo Books, and focuses on his fine art, dating from 2001 to 2012.