Jamie Hewlett: Works for the Last 25 Years

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After the failed MGM Tank Girl movie, Hewlett spent six months working for DC Comics – which he says he hated – before finding himself on the hunt for work. He approached The Face magazine about working on a comic strip for them, and spent a year drawing Get The Freebies – which was later turned into the Phoo Action TV series, which unfortunately never made it further than a 60-minute pilot. The first Get the Freebies strip starred Hewlett himself pitching a new TV show about a gang of supervillains. Gorillaz Gorillaz. Image courtesy of Taschen.

A hardcover, large-format book with slipcase, collecting the first three Hewlett & Martin books (with extra archive material) by Titan Books Buchanan, Stuart. "Interview: Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz) – Sex, Tanks & Kangaroos". Stuart Buchanan. Glasgow University Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 . Retrieved 29 March 2015. In November 2015, Hewlett debuted his first art exhibition called The Suggestionists at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The exhibition then made its American debut at the Woodward Gallery in Manhattan in May 2016. gorillaz_news: Jamie Hewlett named UK Designer of the Year for Gorillaz work (UPDATE: with reactions)". Gorillaz-news.livejournal.com . Retrieved 16 December 2010. Tank Girl is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine Deadline. After a period of intense popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tank Girl inspired a 1995 feature film. After a long hiatus, the character returned to comics in 2007 and has appeared regularly in the years since.In 2007, Hewlett and Albarn premiered their first major work since Gorillaz, entitled Monkey: Journey to the West, a re-working of the ancient Chinese legend Journey to the West. Albarn wrote the score whilst Hewlett designed the set, animations and costumes. Written and adapted by Chen Shi-zheng, the show featured 45 Chinese circus acrobats, Shaolin monks and Chinese vocalists. It premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchester as part of the Manchester International Festival, on 28 June 2007. [11] Barney: Busted out of a mental hospital by TG, she is more or less insane. In The Odyssey, she is responsible for killing the whole cast, thereby sending them all to the land of the dead, from which TG was forced to save them by finding the Prince of Farts. An omnibus edition compiling the three graphic novels Everybody Loves Tank Girl, Bad Wind Rising, and Solid State Tank Girl published by Titan Comics

After a long publishing hiatus, the character returned in 2007 in Tank Girl: The Gifting, a four-issue limited series written by Martin and illustrated by Australian artist Ashley Wood, which was published by IDW Publishing. This was the first new Tank Girl comic material since the final two issues of the four issue series Tank Girl: Apocalypse in 1996. The four-issue limited series Tank Girl: Visions of Booga, by Martin and artist Rufus Dayglo, was released in 2008 by IDW, as was Tank Girl: Armadillo and a Bushel of Other Stories, a Tank Girl novel authored by Martin and published by Titan Books. In a 2012 interview for Absolut Vodka, Hewlett also listed Harvey Kurtzman's American satirical magazine MAD Magazine as a leading influence of his art. [16] An omnibus edition compiling the three Tank Girl graphic novels The Gifting, Visions of Booga, and The Royal Escape published by Titan Comics Best known as a founding member of Mad Magazine, Davis (1924-2016) worked on film posters, record covers and numerous comic books. His work bounces with similar energy to that of Hewlett's, and his detailed illustrations are a benchmark in American humour.To assume that the album cover could be killed off solely by digital music is a disservice to what an album cover was. For many, a great cover epitomised all that was good within popular art. Record sleeves provided a gateway into new worlds – places far removed from the humdrum mundanity of the adolescent bedroom. An album cover could encapsulate the ideas and imagination of a generation and to identify with a record sleeve was a means to feel part of an exciting communal culture. The digital age has taken these qualities and transformed them into fully-fledged social experiences. A promotional image of 2D released for Plastic Beach (2010) by Jamie Hewlett, courtesy EMI Music Ltd. Source: Visit Britain Absolut London". absolutlondon.co.uk. Absolut Vodka. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014 . Retrieved 14 November 2014. One thing I was hoping to see that sadly wasn’t included was his bottle designs for Absolut vodka. Those bottle are gorgeous. But, I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of a comic I didn’t even know about: a strip called Get the Freebies! for The Face magazine. Again, as viewed from the career retrospective context of the book, the point is more to show examples of his style for artistic appreciation than it is to present a collection of strips for reading enjoyment, but his Get the Freebies! strips were well represented and a joy to discover, as well as his rarely-seen strip The 16s, where Hewlett re-teamed with his Tank Girl co-creator, Alan Martin, for a Calvin & Hobbes-style comic. Jamie Hewlett, shot by David Sims for Alfred Dunhill autumn/winter 2012 campaign Ten questions for graphic artist Jamie Hewlett