This is what they want

Alan X

Christian Krank, our top secret weapon aboard Team Tank, sent me this DPs coloured up this morning…what a great way to start the day!
This was my favourite part to draw, so I’m really pleased that Christian has done such a stupendous job on this.

Hurray for Us!

Ruf

This just fell out of an old copy of Deadline Magazine. From the days when I was working on the dippy psych-space-opera Planet Swerve with my good friend Glyn Dillon. This must’ve been an out-take from one of our many poster pages and incidental poem-bits. With the current wave of good-vibes brought on by the new President of USA’s inauguration, I thought it was naively poignant…

alan & glyn, JB’s bar, worthing 1992. photo by mandi

Alan X

.. to quote Marlon Brando at his bloated best.

In what can only be described as an email that cheered me up no end, my ol’ buddy Simon Morse sent me this photo.. Circa early 90s

Michele Perry, Simon Morse, James Morse, Gilbert Best, and yours truly Rufus Dayglo outside our flat in an old warehouse.

Our downstairs neighbours’ incontinent dog did the World’s evilest biggest diarrhoea mid summer right in that glass doorway.. It cooked in the heat..
You took your life in your hands braving those stairs!

See kids..this was punk rock when you had to make fun yourself.. LOL

Ruf

When I was little, I was lucky enough to live in Tokyo.

I was obsessed with Gundam, a TV series that spawned a deluge of model kits, toys, stickers, and ephemera which even today is a colossal merchandising empire.
I watched Gundam on TV and at the Cinema, but due to my sheer stupidity, and inability to get to grips with Japanese, I had no real idea of the complexities of the machiavellian storyline.

It’s only recently seeing them on DVD as an adult (well.. errr..yeah) I’ve realised how complex the storyline was.

I’ve had a crap couple of weeks, and in a moment of work induced procrastination I looked up the toys I had/wanted as a kid.
I was always very lucky in that my parents were incredible indulgent and generous towards their pestering son’s obsessions…. so..Thank you.

God bless Ebay.. and now I have new plastic friends.

Welcome fellas..

Gundam

GunCannon

Guntank… tank..see? There is a link!!

and a bootleg..Hurray! Guntank/Cannon Hybrid!

Ruf

From the fab (and mystifyingly unreleased on dvd) 1967 mod mash-up SMASHING TIME, this is LYNN REDGRAVE gloriously spoofing the current fashions as YVONNE, the manufactured flavour of the month. I love Small Faces/Cream lookey-likey guitar section and the instant-rise-to-fame montage. Priceless throwaway stuff.

Alan X

The race continues… and our heroes are back in action..but for how long?

Did anyone remember the sliced cheese and pickle sandwiches and Um bongo?

Is Dee Dee’s bass guitar in tune?

Does Jet Girl have clean boxers on?

Ruf

Here’s a Cover Rough I’ve done with Brett Ewins and Scott Brown, for their new Project ‘The Mythid.’

The picture is just a thumbnail picture coloured up.

Ruf

I’ve just heard the news that Tony Hart, artist, presenter, and childhood hero, has passed away.

Some of My earliest memories of Vision On, and Take Hart…and Tony’s free and easy style certainly made an enormous impression on my tiny mind.
Tony wasn’t a showy raconteur, like Rolf Harris,( who always freaked me out with his over the top delivery ,I always felt he was just showing off. ).
Tony was a quietly spoken man, who made you believe he was imparting little secrets on how to draw… especialy for You.

I loved Morph, and the Professor, but for me…it was always about Tony.
He truly inspired generations of artists..and I’m certainly one of them.

Thank you Tony. RIP.

Love and Tanks,

Rufus

Here it is, the TRUE origin of the Tank Girl hairstyle. The mighty Mick Lynch in the astoundingly brillant STUMP. We saw this lot at The Royal Escape in Brighton in 1986, at the height of C86, and they were so good I almost puked. Enjoy…

richard burton put his shirt on -

and

does the fish have chips?…

Alan X