I’ve put up a couple of pages at www.artdroids.co.uk for sale… but obviously I have a lot more stuff available.

I’ve been meaning to get stuff out there for sale for some time, but have been too busy!

If there’s any particular pages you are interested in, just drop me a line, either through an enquiry at artdroids, or through a PM at  http://www.tank-girl.com/

I’ve got work available from Tank Girl ‘The Gifting’, ‘Visions of Booga’ and ‘Skidmarks’.

Also.. some Metal Gear Solid pages, Snaked, and 2000ad’s Low Life (with Dredd and Aimee Nixon).

http://artdroids.co.uk/ArtistGalleryRoom.asp?ArtistId=679

Cheer!

Rufus… pencil boy

In 1987 the country was awash with a sea of pop shite. If you were around then, being a teenager or a music fan, then you’ll remember how precious stuff like this was. The cream of the indie scene – Pop Will Eat Itself (later to be shortened to PWEI as they embraced techno moved up to Def Con One).

Existing their own little cultural bubble, The Poppies lent a lot of their style to early Tank Girl strips, especially from the design and lyrics of album Box Frenzy and single Beaver Patrol (which came with a free sew-on arm patch).

Thanks lads, we owe you a pint.

Alan X

Last night was the opening of MUTATE BRITAIN in Curtain Road, Hoxton, the Mutoid Waste Company’s Art extavaganza!
Spread over 4 floors, the exhibition has all sorts of amazing stuff, from a Jet car (a reall friggin’ Russian 4X4 with jet fuselage) to paintings, sculpture, prints, ceramics, and ‘urban’ art.

I got there early to hook up with Brett Ewins (2000ad Luminary, mentor, and fine artist). There was already a queue, snaking it’s way up the street…and looking up, there were huge inflatable green tentacles up the top of the building!

I managed to circumvent the queue and sneak in, and had a sane 5 minutes to try and take afew pics before it got so busy it became pointless to try photograph stuff. (I’m a rubbish photographer anyway..)

There was a free bar, so i bundled up there, grabbed a cocktail, and worked my way down the building, past burlesque dancers, a band, tattooist, print workshop display, coffee shop and hundreds of pieces of art…

You’ve got to go and check it out…it’s on for a month, and is incredible.

Many of the pieces are for sale (hint, cough)…

A huge thanks to Alex Wreckage Wright, who curated the show, and did a truly beautiful painting to, for invitingme, and getting this whole thing together…. What a sterling job Sir!

And..Thank you to all those working last night, and Mutoid Waste for making this all possible.

Here’s some awful photos by Captain Crap-Photo..

Arriving….Queue, and Tentacles..

Brett Ewins with one of a number of pieces he had in the show…

Me… poser… with our Tank Girl panel…

Jet Girl would kill for this baby… so would I…

Plane wing hung from second story, and ceranmic Mickey Death panel…

Looking down a the queue..

I’ll post more photos tomorrow if I have time!

Ruf

The mighty Kiddus i (aka Frank Dowding) performing Graduation in Z!on from the cult Rastafarian film ROCKERS

If you haven’t seen this movie yet, seriously – seek it out, watch it repeatedly, live a better life.

Alan X

Had a fiddle with design this morning…

Here’s the rough for my design for the Mutoid Waste Exhibition… I’ve got to paint this on an aeroplane panel…

Talke to my friend Brett Ewins, and he’s working on a piece too, with our mate Jason. Brett designed a piece, and Jason’s painting..

Delegation… I have much to learn! LOL…

Thanks to the mighty Jock for sending me a link to Publisher’s Weekly, where they’ve reviewed the release of Tank Girl Visions of Booga (the Collected Trade Paperback)..

Scroll down to ‘Comics’ Wayyyyy down the page! LOL..

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6610103.html/

For those to lazy to click on the link…

Tank Girl: Visions of Booga Alan C. Martin and Rufus Dayglo. IDW (Diamond, dist.), $17.99 (104p) ISBN 978-1-60010-280-6

In a perfect world, everybody would be able to live like Tank Girl, even if just for a day. The snarl-lipped, occasional tank-driving, semi-postapocalyptic punk scamp and her kangaroo lover, Booga, seem to be having a good time even when they’re racing hell-bent across the outback with guns blazing and cigarettes askew, with bloodthirsty madmen on their tail. This time out, Tank Girl and Booga have run afoul of the Aussie mob on a robbery job and are fleeing for their lives as usual, only to come across the ultra-rare “Book of Hipster Gold,” a lost beatnik epic that has the potential to save the world. Martin’s text makes sense in its own cockeyed way, with the slangy references flying thick as the exhaust and gunfire, livening up one fist fight where the characters announce each punch with Z-movie flair (“Wesley Snipes!” “Christopher Walken!” “Vinnie Jones!”). Dayglo’s art has spit and sawdust galore, with sunset tones fitting the desert outback setting, and sharp angles to punctuate the frequent action. It’s an electric crackle of a book with modish postpunk zip to spare. (Nov.)

You can buy it at Amazon (Cheapest place I can find!!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tank-Girl-Visions-Booga/dp/1848561660/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226333346&sr=1-12/

Ruf

Thanks to everyone who came to the signing at FP! We were besieged, but managed to sketch and sign for everyone, including FP Staff!

We then hooked up with Alan’s Worthing cohorts for an evening of drinking and some truly frightening anecdotes…

I’ve been asked by the good people at Mutoid waste company to take part in an art show, painting a piece of old aeoplane like a bomber pinup! Soooo excited!! A lifetime of building Airfix kits finally pays off!

My piece of fuselage to paint!!

and finally… Sgt Alan ‘Rock’ Martin and PFC Rufus ‘Ice Cream’ Dayglo… back in the shit, man…

You can probably tell I’ve been hanging around with my little boy all week – he made me learn this one off by heart…

Playaway was originally screened on Saturday afternoons during the seventies, an unprecidented gift to entertainment starved kids of that era.

The main guy here starting the song off is Brian Cant, hero of a million Brit kids TV shows in the 60s & 70s. We once had the honour of meeting him in the 90s when he played the part of the Narrator in the Conaught Theatre (Worthing)’s production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Unfortunately we were under the influnce of something that Tim Leary would advocate, oblivious to the play that was on and scaling the stairs to the theatre bar, just as the seven dwarves came down. We were mightily freaked out I can tell you, and the cherry on the cake was finding Brian F’ing Cant sat at the bar, dressed like Ali Baba, supping half a shandy. The poor bloke didn’t know what had hit him – we were half a dozen men in our early twenties, fawning and grovelling at his feet like he was some returning deity.

God Bless you Brian and please forgive us.

Baldrick spotters amongst you will have clocked a very young Tony Robinson standing next to the two ladies (Toni Arthur, how great to moniker a girl with two mens’ names!), (and the voluptuous Julie Stevens – probably my first crush). Of course Mr. Robinson went on to fame in Blackadder, Time Team, and my personal favourite schools’ programme, Sam On Boff’s Island.

Playaway!

Alan X