Voluptuous girls fucking futuristic sex robots, cigar-chomping devils with diabolical grins, monsters driving slick hot rods as they puff on skinny cigarettes; the work of Chris ‘Coop’ Cooper is instantly recognisable.

His bold, comic book style, retina-sizzling colours and images seeped in 1950s Americana have made him one of the hottest talents to burst out of the ‘lowbrow’ art scene, a deviant genre he shares with Bizarre favourites Mark Ryden, Todd Schorr and Shag.

Coop’s fiendish images first found notoriety in ‘Kustom Kulture’, a modern subculture borne from the car and motorbike customising enthusiasts of 1950s America. Since then, his band posters and album covers have inspired countless outsider artists and musicians across the globe, and any inking shop worth its salt has a full set of Coop flashes in its collection, including his famous smoking devil (the image at the top of this page, which was originally commissioned by lighter manufacturer Zippo).