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We Hate Tank Girl
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Read moreRemastered Editions
Stripped down, un-earthed, touched-up, repaired, revamped, and re-evaluated. The original run of “Classic” Tank Girl books (from 1988 -1995) at last get to see the light of day in their original form… TANK GIRL: BOOK ONE (remastered edition) “From the depths of the outback she charges, astride her fabulous tank! It’s…Tank Girl. Join everybody’s favourite beer-swilling, [...]
Read moreSkidmarks
Barney in a coma. Booga on a skateboard. Jet Girl in a giant toy car with Dee Dee Ramone. Tank Girl on a cruise-missile-mission to save the day and maybe stop somewhere nice for tea. It can only be TANK GIRL: SKIDMARKS the collection. Finally the ten trouser-tanning instalments have been shovelled up by Titan Comics and transformed [...]
Read moreVisions of Booga
The second graphic novel collection with IDW Publishing, a story that I’ve described as “a kind of transcontinental Kerouacian odyssey, with knob jokes” Here’s some reviews – “(Martin’s) writing is surprisingly unchanged. It’s still by turns funny, weird, and strangely sentimental. Beat poetry via Carry On movies. It’s got the same strong whiff of teenage indulgence it always [...]
Read moreThe Gifting
For those of you that missed it in 2007, I’d like to flag up Tank Girl’s comeback series “The Gifting“, which crashed to Earth as a mini-series last May and severely dented the Top 50 Trade Paperback Charts at the end of the year. A fantastic collection of great covers by Ashley Wood and a [...]
Read moreArmadillo
In April 2008 Titan Books published my debut text novel, “Tank Girl: Armadillo!” which received some very overenthusiastic reviews from the far corners of the globe – “…like Jack Kerouac for my people. My people being pot-smokers with funny colored hair who enjoy comics and violent explosions of smoke and fury. “Armadillo!” is one of [...]
Read moreThe Cream Of Tank Girl
“Providing a definitive guide to Tank Girl and her world, this coffee-table art book boasts masses of Jamie Hewlett’s finest artwork, including tons of rare art and the previously unseen comic strip, The 16s, along with every Hewlett Tank Girl cover for Deadline magazine ever; plus publicity posters; graphic novel collection covers; an unseen, rejected [...]
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