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Trudy Cooper is an Australian comic book artist best known for co-writing the comics Platinum Grit and Oglaf.

=Biography=

Trudy Cooper grew up with her brother who became a physicist. She was raised in Australia and currently lives there. She has stated she went to an art college and majored in Animation. She has said she discovered comics for adults in her teens and her comic work has been inspired in part by her own life and people she knows.

=Comics= Cooper and Gail Simone co-created the "Spoilsport" comic story in C. Spike Trotman's Smut Peddler Presents: My Monster Boyfriend. She helped illustrate Oh Joy Sex Toy by Erika Moen. Cooper, Doug Bayne and Ben Baker co-produced an illustrated cartoon for The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting, a sketch comedy show in Australia.

Platinum Grit
Trudy Cooper and co-writer Danny Murphy first published the award-winning comic Platinum Grit in 1994. Doug Bayne also inked and contributed to the script between episodes 1-12. The series is noted for sexual drawings of girls and surreal offbeat humor. The most recent episode was episode 20 in 2009.

Oglaf
Cooper and Doug Bayne started publishing the sexually explicit webcomic Oglaf in 2008, and a new comic is published each Sunday on Oglaf.com. Cooper has described the comic as "porn." The comic takes place in a fantasy realm and there are many recurring themes. It has been praised for depictions of gender and sexuality. It has also been noted for including people of color and those who identify as LGBT.