Jamie Christopher Hewlett was born on 3 April 1968 and is an English comic book creator, illustrator, music video director, and songwriter.
19 Facts About Jamie Hewlett
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Jamie Hewlett is the co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl with Alan Martin and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz, alongside Blur frontman Damon Albarn.
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Martin and Jamie Hewlett created Tank Girl, an anarchic strip about a teenage punk girl who drove a tank and had a mutant kangaroo for a boyfriend.
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Jamie Hewlett designed decor for a nightclub called The Factory in Chatsworth Road, Worthing.
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Jamie Hewlett had worked with writer Peter Milligan on Hewligan's Haircut in 2000 AD issues 700 to 707.
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Jamie Hewlett was involved in providing covers and art for Shade, the Changing Man, written by Milligan, for DC Comics.
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Jamie Hewlett drew a Tank Girl mini-series for the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics written by Peter Milligan.
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Jamie Hewlett was still involved with British bands of the mid-1990s, including illustrating a comic strip version of Pulp's song "Common People".
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Albarn would work on the music, while Jamie Hewlett would come up with character designs, and both came up with ideas for the members of the band.
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Albarn wrote the score whilst Jamie Hewlett designed the set, animations and costumes.
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Jamie Hewlett's Get the Freebies strip was adapted by BBC Three for a pilot entitled Phoo Action, broadcast in February 2008.
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Jamie Hewlett married French presenter and actress Emma de Caunes at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on 10 September 2011.
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In November 2015, Jamie Hewlett debuted his first art exhibition called The Suggestionists at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
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Jamie Hewlett has mentioned that he is largely influenced by the works of American animator Chuck Jones of Looney Tunes, and cites the works of British comic book artists Ronald Searle and Mike McMahon as influences on his artwork.
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Jamie Hewlett has even stated that the entirety of Chuck Jones' filmography and Mad Magazine as a whole are the biggest overall influences on his work.
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Jamie Hewlett was influenced by not only the works of Chuck Jones, but various UPA cartoons.
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Jamie Hewlett has admitted to being heavily inspired by the likes of artists such as Robert Crumb, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Kippenberger, and Richard Caton Woodville.
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Jamie Hewlett has admitted to being a big fan of Brendan McCarthy's works, more specifically his work on his comic book Strange Days.
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Jamie Hewlett has said that French comic book artist Moebius is a big influence on his art, calling him 'unbelievably inspiring' and saying that he considers him to be 'one of the greatest'.