Today in Comics History, April 3: Happy birthday, Jamie Hewlett!

Born on this day...


from Tank Girl: The Graphic Novel (Penguin, 1991), script by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, pencils and inks by Jamie Hewlett
No, no, not you Booga, dear! It's your lad's birthday, you know, Jamie Hewlett! The one who co-created you and Tank Girl, and the 2000 AD serial Hewligan's Haircut, and the virtual band Gorillaz! Ah, now it's beginning to sink into his dense marsupial mind. Here he is on the left, under thinly-disguised MAD magazine-style parody names, along with Philip Bond (middle) and Tank Girl co-creator Alan Martin (on the right)


from Tank Girl Free Comic Book Day: A Brief History of Tank Girl one-shot (Titan, May 2018); script by Alan Martin; drawn by Brett Parson, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, and Jonathan Edwards; letters by Brett Parson
Yes, Jamie Hewlett! You not only can't get him out of your head (copyright ©2001 Kylie), you can't get him out of your Tank Girl comics. He's pictured here on the left, frequently accompanied by co-creator Alan Martin (in glasses).






from Tank Girl Full Colour Classics #2.1 (Titan, June 2019), script by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, pencils and inks by Jamie Hewlett, colors by Tracy Bailey and Sofie Dodgson
So Happy Birthday to the great illustrator of the most foul-mouthed, hard-drinkin', tank-drivin', beat-boppin' cartoon characters since the Archies.


from Tank Girl: The Graphic Novel

Lori Petty (the movie Tank Girl) and Jamie, from Tank Girl: The Collection (Dark Horse, October 1993), photograph by Alan Martin

Deadline co-founder Brett Ewins and Jamie, from Tank Girl Full Colour Classics #2.1, photo by Steve Cook
Play us off with banjo accompaniment from this guy sitting in with the band, Gorillaz!


Or better yet, play us off without the banjo, guys! And Noodle!


"El Mañana" by Gorillaz (Parlophone/Virgin, May 2005), written by Damon Albarn