cover art to Tank Girl: The Odyssey

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As the name suggests, Tank Girl drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw.

The comic's style was heavily influenced by punk visual art, and later strips were deeply disorganized, anarchic, absurdist, and frequently psychedelic, featuring various elements of surrealist techniques, fanzines, collage, cut-up technique, stream of consciousness, and metafiction, with very little regard or interest for conventional plot or committed narrative. In fact, Martin described his attitude to plot in the third strip anthology as such: The cover of the God Save the Queen single designed by Jamie Reid. ... It has been suggested that Chaos (physics) be merged into this article or section. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... Absurdism is a philosophy, usually translated into different art forms, that holds that any attempt to understand the universe will fail. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature utilizes numerous unique techniques and games to provide inspiration. ... A fanzine (also called a zine) is an amateur publication created by fans of a particular cultural phenomena (such as a literary genre or type of music) to address or correspond with others who share their interest. ... A collage composed of magazine articles and pictures Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ... The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique or genre in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. ... In psychology and philosophy stream of consciousness, introduced by William James, is the set of constantly changing inner thoughts and sensations which an individual has while conscious, used as a synonym for stream of thought. ... Look up metafiction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up plot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The strip was initially set in a stylized post-apocalyptic Australia (indeed, Hewlett and Martin have described her as "Mad Max designed by Vivienne Westwood"^[1]), although it drew heavily from contemporary British pop culture. Real-life celebrities were commonly cameoed (usually B list, from Britpop bands and UK children's TV, although on one occasion Tank Girl did headbutt Princess Diana and steal her tiara). A gift shop is a store primarily selling souvenirs relating to a particular topic, often to simply provide evidence that the consumer has visited that location. ... A type of chocolate sold by the Cadbury brand in the form of frogs. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... Mad Max is an Australian apocalyptic science fiction action film from 1979 directed by George Miller and written by Miller and Byron Kennedy. ... Dame Vivienne Westwood DBE (born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Tintwistle, Cheshire, on 8 April 1941) is an English fashion designer largely responsible for modern punk and new wave fashions. ... Martin Scorsese appears briefly in an uncredited role in this scene from his feature film Taxi Driver. ... Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ... The top combatant can attack with headbutts while being held in the bottom combatants guard. ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) (1 July 1961–31 August 1997), commonly, but incorrectly, known as Princess Diana, was for fifteen years the wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Characters

• Rebecca Buck, aka Tank Girl. According to her own herstory included as a preface to one of the books, her first words were "cauliflower penis". When she was 7, she started a collection of novelty pencil sharpeners (the collection is now housed in the National Museum of Modern Pencil Sharpeners, Sydney). She later became a tank pilot and worked as a bounty hunter before shooting a heavily decorated officer, having mistaken him for her father, and failing to deliver colostomy bags to President Hogan, the incontinent Head of State in Australia, resulting in him publicly embarrassing himself at a large international trade conference (making front page news), and so making Tank Girl an outlaw with a multi-million dollar bounty on her head, which doesn't seem to bother her much. Prone to random acts of sex and violence, hair dyeing, flatulence, nose-picking, vomiting, spitting, and more than occasional drunkenness. Has the ability to outrun any ice-cream van - even Mr. Whippy
• Booga: a perverted mutated kangaroo, formerly quite a successful toy designer of "products Santa would've sacrificed a reindeer for", and presently Tank Girl's devoted boyfriend, whom she met when he snuck into her tank one night to pinch a pair of her knickers, only to fall in love. Big Dame Edna fan who once impersonated Bill Clinton. Always does the cooking, particularly the great British institution of tea, much to his protest. Follows TG everywhere and does whatever she tells him, by his own admission
• the talking stuffed animals:

• Camp Koala: a stitchy, brown, gay, koala-shaped rucksack described as "the Jeremy Thorpe of comics", whom TG sodomizes with a hot banana. Died tragically when they were playing baseball with live hand grenades which Camp eagerly caught in the outfield, exploding on impact. After a tearful funeral service, they go to a toy store and buy a new one, although the original's known for visiting occasionally as a guardian angel. He's the only character TG's ever admitted to loving (at least vocally)
• squeaky toy rat: a squeaky toy rat
• Mr. Precocious: a "small Shakespearean mutant" who looks a bit like a mini bipedal pink elephant, though may possibly be a bilby.

• Stevie, a wild-haired blond Aborigine surfer-type chap who owns a convenience store and chain-smokes. Being TG's ex-fella, Booga is always a bit jealous of him. He has various familial ties and connections with Aboriginal culture and remote traditionalist tribespeople
• Barney: TG busted her out of a mental hospital, she's more or less insane (in The Odyssey, she was responsible for killing the whole lot, thereby sending them all to the land of the dead, from which TG was forced to save them by finding the Prince of Farts)
• Sub Girl (real name unknown, although a trading card for the film once listed her real name as 'Subrina'). Described as "like a beautiful flower floating in the loo", she pilots a submarine that can operate both underwater and underground. A friend of TG's since childhood, she used to come round her house with Jet Girl and try on her mum's underwear
• Jet Girl (real name unknown), a talented mechanic who flies a jet. She's the only girl, apart from Barney, with a full hippie head of hair (jet-black, naturally), and all her friends call her "boring" (she has admitted to being a big fan of Rod Stewart)

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History

Martin and Hewlett first met in the mid-1980s in Worthing, England, when Martin was in a band with Philip Bond called the University Smalls, one of their favourite tracks of which was a song called "Rocket Girl". They had started using the suffix 'girl' to everything habitually after the release of the Supergirl movie, but Rocket Girl was a student at college who Bond had a giant crush on and apparently bore a striking resemblance to a Love and Rockets character. Hewlett and Bond hit it off straight away, but Martin was at first a little put off by Hewlett's habit of drawing huge penises on any paper he came across. (Martin is known for insisting in interviews that Hewlett's penis is 'hammer-shaped'.) They began collaborating on a comic/fanzine called Atomtan, and while working on this, Jamie had drawn The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Worthing is a large town and a local government district in West Sussex, England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Philip Bond is a British comic book artist, who first came to prominence in the late 1980s via a self-published fanzine, Atomtan, created with Alan Martin, Jamie Hewlett, Luke Whitney and Jane Oliver. ... Look up Suffix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Supergirl (disambiguation). ... Love and Rockets (often abbreviated L&R) is a black and white comic book series by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, sometimes cited jointly as Los Bros Hernandez. ... A fanzine (see also: zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular subject for the pleasure of others who share their interest. ...

The image was published in the fanzine as a one-page ad (with a caption that read: "SHE'LL BREAK YOUR BACK AND YOUR BALLS!"), but the Tank Girl series first appeared in the debut issue of Deadline (1988), a UK magazine intended as a forum for new comic talent, or as its publishers Brett Ewins and Tom Astor put it, "a forum for the wild, wacky and hitherto unpublishable," and it continued until the end of the magazine in 1995. // Fig. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Deadline was a British magazine published between 1988 and 1995. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See comedian Stand up comedian List of Comedians List of British comedians comics comic book comic strip underground comics alternative comics web comic sprite comics manga graphic novel List of comic characters This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Brett Ewins is a British comic book artist best known for his work on Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper in the weekly comic book 2000 AD. Ewins formed a long-term collaborative partnership with fellow artist Brendan McCarthy, working together on such strips as Bad Company. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Tank Girl grew quite popular in the politicized indie counterculture zeitgeist as a sort of cartoon mirror of the growing empowerment of women in punk rock culture. Posters and t-shirts began springing up everywhere, including one especially made for the Clause 28 march against Margaret Thatcher's legislation, which stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". Deadline publisher Tom Astor said, "In London, there are even weekly lesbian gatherings called 'Tank Girl nights.'"^[3] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations with varied meanings that evolved from its original meaning. ... 1942 US government war poster. ... T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ... Ian McKellen with Michael Cashman at the 1988 Gay Rights March on Manchester in protest of Section 28. ... Anti-war activist Midge Potts is arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States on February 9, 2005. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ... Local governments are administrative offices of an area smaller than a state. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... In Britain, the term maintained school is short for grant-maintained, meaning that its funding comes from the local education authority. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ...

With public interest growing, Penguin, the largest publishing company in Britain, bought the rights to collect the strips as a book, and before long, Tank Girl had been published in Spain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Argentina, Brazil and Japan, with several US publishers fighting over the license. Finally Dark Horse Comics won out, and the strips were reprinted in color in an American publication, creatively called Tank Girl, beginning in '91, with an extended break in '92, and ending in September '93. A graphic novel-length story named Tank Girl: The Odyssey was also published in '95, written by Peter Milligan and loosely inspired by Homer's Odyssey, Joyce's Ulysses and a considerable quantity of junk TV, (although Milligan asserts in the preface that the story's entirely based on real events, inspired by the wanderings and adventures of a group of lost friends, all of whom appear in the pages under various pseudonyms). Another graphic novel called Tank Girl: Apocalypse, in which TG becomes pregnant, also appeared in '96, written by Alan Grant after spending several hours alone in the pitch-dark bowels of an actual tank, in a sort of sensory deprivation experience. It was also co-authored and drawn by Philip Bond, the chap with whom Martin was in a band when he first met co-creator Hewlett. These last two stories, being graphic novels and not compilations of the strips, are distinctly more linear in nature, Apocalypse having absolutely no involvement from either Martin or Hewlett (and being dramatically less well-received by fans). Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ... Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ... United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Trade paperback of Will Eisners A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel. ... Homer (Greek: , ) was an early Greek poet and aoidos (rhapsode) traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... Beginning of the Odyssey The Odyssey (Greek Οδύσσεια (Odússeia) ) is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the Ionian poet Homer. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. ... Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ... Alan Grant is a Scottish comic book writer born in 1949. ... A prisoner at the United States Camp X-ray facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba being subjected to sensory deprivation, through the use of ear muffs, visor, breathing mask and heavy mittens. ...

Film

Main article: Tank Girl (film)

The comic was also adapted into a critically and financially unsuccessful film, albeit with a considerable cult following along with the far more widely acclaimed comics. Tank Girl is a 1995 film based on the Tank Girl comic book, created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Martin and Hewlett are known for speaking poorly of the experience, calling it "a bit of a sore point" for them. Martin shrugs,

Hewlett has said:

Martin continues: Grange Hill is a British childrens television drama series which is shown on BBC One. ... Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor and singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. ...

Ironically though, despite its critics, the film did however undeniably broaden the comics' fanbase from a relatively modest UK cult following to an international audience. Indeed, a great many fans today cite the film as their first introduction to the character, which later prompted them to seek out the comics.

The future of Tank Girl

After the film, Hewlett went on to make his fortune creating Gorillaz with Blur's Damon Albarn, a virtual band for which he reportedly received a 'big money' deal with Dreamworks recently to sell the rights so they could make a movie out of this creation too, but Hewlett declined, still soured by his previous Hollywood experience, and opting this time to wait until he could control things on the project himself. Gorillaz is a virtual band created in 1999 by Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. ... Blur are an English rock band formed in Colchester in 1989. ... Damon Albarn, (born March 23, 1968 in Leytonstone, London), is an English singer-songwriter who gained fame as the lead singer of rock band Blur. ... Members of the virtual band Gorillaz A virtual band (also called a virtual group or cartoon band), in music, is any group whose members are not flesh-and-blood musicians, but animated characters. ... DreamWorks, LLC (limited liability company), also known as DreamWorks Pictures or DreamWorks SKG, is one of the major American film studios which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. ...

Martin wandered around for a bit, staying at communes with hippie friends and looking for stone circles and ancient sites before settling on the Scottish Borders with his wife Lou and son Rufus Bodie (named after Lewis Collins' character in The Professionals), where he's played in various bands, written a Tank Girl "novel" (Armadillo!) due for publication in November 2007 by Titan Books, as well as various screenplays and scripts. He is currently creating two new TG limited series (the first in over ten years): Tank Girl: The Gifting with award-winning Australian artist Ashley Wood for American publishers IDW, scheduled for release in June 2007, and Tank Girl: Carioca with Brit comics' legend Mike McMahon for Titan Books which should see print in autumn 2007. A Commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property. ... Singer at a modern Hippie movement in Russia A hippie or hippy is a member of a specific subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States during the early 1960s, spread to other countries, and declined in the mid-1970s. ... While not unique to Britain, stone circles are a very British type of monument. ... Rocky landscape with ruins, by Nicolaes Berchem, ca. ... Scottish Borders (often referred to locally as The Borders or The Borderland) is one of 35 local government unitary council areas of Scotland. ... Lewis Collins (born 27 May 1946 in Bidston, Birkenhead, Merseyside) is a British actor. ... From Left : Martin Shaw as Ray Doyle, Gordon Jackson as George Cowley, and Lewis Collins as William Bodie. ... Titan Books is a UK publisher of graphic novels. ... The limited series is a term referring to a comic book series with a set finite number of issues. ... Doomed cover illustration. ... Mike McMahon can be Mike McMahon the comics illustrator Mike McMahon the American football player Mike McMahon the Ice hockey player This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Titan Books is a UK publisher of graphic novels. ...

When asked about what they had in store for the character in The Gifting, Martin said,

Revival

In early 2007, Hewlett announced plans for a Tank Girl revival. He has redesigned the character: now that counter-culture has become mainstream, Tank Girl will dress in the style of a '40s schoolteacher. She will be drawn by Ashley Wood, in a series published by IDW publishing. Doomed cover illustration. ...

Trivia

• J-punk-pop-noise band Judy and Mary have a bubblegummy tune called "Judy is a Tank Girl"^[8]
• One story called Bushman Tucker was dedicated to Bill Hicks and co-starred Kenny Baker

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Publication history

• Tank Girl Book 1 consists of the first 15 episodes, originally published in Deadline Magazine, starting Sept. '88, all originally in black and white.
• Tank Girl Book 2 consists of the next 17 episodes, some colour, some black and white.
• Tank Girl Book 3 rounds up a final 9 episodes, including some featuring Booga as the star. All in colour.

There are still some original Martin/Bond strips as yet uncollected.

• Tank Girl - The Odyssey consists of 4 issues released between June and October 1995, published by DC's Vertigo imprint. These comics were printed in full colour.
• Tank Girl - Apocalypse consists of 4 issues released between November 1995 and February 1996, published by DC's Vertigo imprint. Again these comics were in full colour.

A graphic novel adaptation of the movie was also released by Penguin books in 1995. DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Vertigo logo Vertigo is an imprint of comic book and graphic novel publisher DC Comics. ...

The entire back catalogue was reprinted by Titan books in 2002. These books are currently still available.

References

External links

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Tank Girl

• Rachel Talalay's Tank Girl page (includes scenes the studio cut from the movie)
• twisted.org.uk (Fan site)
• archives (fan site)
• Meet the Rippers - from storyboard to silver screen
• Alan Martin interview - about the 2007 relaunch from IDW comics.
• analysis of the parallels between Tank Girl: The Odyssey and Homer and Joyce's works
• The Unpopulars - Alan Martin's garage punk band on myspace
• Gorillaz - Jamie Hewlett's virtual band
• Jamie Hewlett interview about influences