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James Courtney reviews Devil's Advocate: The Art Of Coop, published by the artist's own Aperient Press. You probably know Coop's work even if you've never heard his name; his "devil girls" alt-pinup illustrations have been showing up all over the place lately. I really want this book.
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Mark Yarm interviewed Coop last year for Flak. (On his website, Coop claims that this interview was "done in New York City USA, on September 10th, 2001, in a top floor office with a great view of the World Trade Center a mere three blocks away.")

Flak: Do you literally believe in Satan?

Coop: No. Basically, Satanism is a philosophy masquerading as a religion. Satanism is just an understanding that man's true nature is an animal nature. It's really just sort of a workable, very pragmatic philosophy. It's a very good way of looking at the world and understanding people's motivations. Of course now I'm starting to make it sound like Scientology.

Flak: How much flak do you get for your portrayal of women?

Coop: I think a lot of people imagine that I get a lot of grief about it. But honestly, if anything, I get the opposite. Any time I do a personal appearance, I always have these girls come up to me who are more plump, voluptuous girls — they thank you for drawing women that look like them and they love me for it. Once we started the website to sell merchandise online and we started getting e-mail from customers, we quickly realized that more than half of them are women.

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