Jet Girl’s (movie version) jet has been located! Looking pretty trashed, parked outside of a bar in Atlantic County… 

http://www.lostinjersey.com/business/fakejet.html

Must’ve been quite a bender.

Alan X

In my never ending quest to plug as many positive reviews as possible, here’s a lovely big-up for our on-going strip in the Judge Dredd Megazine (Tank Girl: Skidmarks), from House Of Usher over at http://www.2000adonline.com/forum/index.php

“…Jet Girl and Dee Dee Ramone driving a 1973 Matchbox ‘Flying Bug’ is the coolest thing to have appeared in the Megazine this year, and reminded me of seeing the Matchbox Adventure 2000 vehicle in The Cursed Earth. Slickly drawn and confidently written, Tank Girl was the best thing in the Megazine, bar none. Makes me want to read the parts I’ve missed.”

Yay. We love you too, Mr. House

Alan X

Zara Arshad’s fab project with mini protest boards is up on her Flickr account…check it out..There are some really fantastic ones..I love the 3D coloured geometric one…wow.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zara-arshad/

Ruf

Well… nearly finished 2008..phew..

It seems like a million years since I started ‘Tank Girl – Skidmarks’ with Alan in the Judge Dredd Megazine… I’m really pleased with how it’s developing both story wise, and style wise..

So it’s odd to go back and see the first episode again, which über wonder colourist Christian Krank, the most patient man in comics, is recolouring for the US Release in 2009.

Here’s the opening Splash.

Christian’s put in so much work, and put up with so much vague direction fom me..Thank you Sir..I’m so lucky to be working with such a gentleman.

Hope everyone’s warm, happy and getting ready for the rollercoaster year ahead!

Love, Lukewarm Tea and Kitkats
Ruf

PS… A big Thank you to Ash Whiting, our tanktastic friend who’s done so much to help us too, with this very website..Thank you Sir!

Just to really cheese you off… here’s a reprise of the same song from two weeks ago, A MERRY JINGLE by THE GREEDIES, now with the added twist of a wacky intro from Kenny Everett and the magnificent rewriting of the lyrics into -

“We wish you a Happy New Year and a Happy New Year”

and we surely do folks. A happy 2009 to all our readers, subscribers, stalkers and fiercest critics.

Thanks for your support,

Love from TEAM TANK-GIRL.COM

XXX

I’d like to wish You all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

I’ve been so fortunate this year, working with my favourite writer, on my favourite character, and surrounded by great friends, and family.

Thank you Everyone for your friendship, support, feedback and patience with my getting to grips with what I’m doing . I really am very grateful.

We’re working really hard to bring you some fun books for 2009.

Love, tanks and pencils,
Rufus

Another reviewer gets his Cream of Tank Girl pages stuck together…

“As with the original strips, Martin provides the words for the book, providing readers with an overview of the gestation of the character, her time at Deadline, her subsequent success in America, the live-action film and its aftermath. It’s fascinating stuff, that leaves very few stones unturned and celebrates the strip’s gloriously surreal heyday and the way it impacted on the culture of the time.

However, as good as those words are, the real selling point for fans is undoubtedly Hewlett’s artwork. Every page unearths fresh gems to savour, from original page layouts to full cover art and even design sketches he provided for the feature film. More than anything else, it reminds you that behind the countless digs at pop culture, swearing and violence lay a genuine work of art drafted by one of the most gifted comic books artists to come out of the UK in the past two decades.

Whether you are a fan of comics in general of Tank Girl herself, you need to rush straight out and pick up a copy of this fabulous book. Not only does it celebrate one of the most iconic UK comic characters since Judge Dredd, but it also manages to transport you back to those innocent days when all a girl needed to have fun was a tank, a dim mutant kangaroo boyfriend and the opportunity to play strip poker with Feargal Sharkey. Bloody brilliant.

5/5”

read the full review at http://www.homecinemachoice.com/Playback/books/The+Cream+of+Tank+Girl

buy the book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cream-Tank-Girl-Alan-Martin/dp/1845769422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229901416&sr=8-1

Alan X

We’ve made it to the winter solstice of 2008 (although not without casualties, including Oliver Postgate and Woolworths). So this is the shortest day of the year – things just keep on getting brighter from here on in.

A Merry Mid-Winter to you all!

from Team Tank Girl

XXX

Still on a Chrimbo tip, here’s the lovely Sinead O’Connor from Malcom McLaren’s 1991 extravaganza The Ghosts of Oxford Street singing Silent Night

Sleep in heavenly peace y’all

Alan X

For those millions of you who have enquired about the mysterious Even Stevens and his novelty Christmas record “Countdown 2 Christmas” with crappy band The Snowballs (as mentioned in this years Tank Girl novel Armadillo!), here is a link to the song on the band’s myspac page

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=136187896

Hope you’re already having a lovely Christmas,

Alan X