Here’s a bunch of cover ideas that were proposed for the Second Issue of Tank Girl – Skidmarks, and worked through until we found one that both Alan and I were happy with…

These are all tiny thumbnail sketches..usually only a few inches across so very very rough!!

And a more cleaned up rough for the new cover… This is an a5 sized sketch..

On the first attempt I tried to make it like a 60s comic..with a split panel cover..The young Tank Girl in her big school fight..and Dee Dee Ramone introduced more robustly.. with the tank zipping up the middle too separate the panels out.
Alan wasn’t too excited by this.. and proposed I simplify it and ad in heads in the BG..

But I didn’t like this version myself!
so..I tried again..

This time having TG facing her tormentors, with a 60sstyle montage of Jet Girl/Dee Dee/Booga in the BG.. as Alan pointed out..’err..it’s kind of busy isn’t it?’
Then my son Fin came to the rescue..and suggested just having Tankie pointing her catapult at the reader..

Alan agreed.. and so I was sacked.. and replaced as artist on Tank Girl by a young child..

Art is a fickle and cut throat business…

thanks Fin..x x x

Love’n tanks…

Rufus.. Ex Pencil Division…

TANK GIRL – DARK NUGGETS

Out this December from IMAGE COMICS!

Order it next month through Previews!!!!

Love’n tanks..
Rufus

Byro rough for upcoming splash page..drawn at 4 am..while my neighbours had a rather good sounding party… Love’n tanks! Ruf..Team Tank Girl

Our Tank Girl: Skidmarks comic will hit the shelves in November (only a couple of months kids, get your orders into you local comic shop now). We will be dedicating two pages of the comic to letters and art sent in by readers and fans.
So if you’ve got a question for Tank Girl, or a personal problem that you’d like Booga’s expert advice on, please write to us in the comments box on this post.
If you have any Tank Girl related art that you think the world should see, please send a 300dpi scan to

tankgirllettersandart@yahoo.co.uk

The best letter/drawing in each issue will receive a signed piece of Rufus Dayglo Tank Girl artwork!

Cheers dears

Alan X

p.s. please remember that by sending us your art and letters, you are granting us permission to use/publish/exploit said works in our Tank Girl publications.

IDW will soon be releasing the last two Tank Girl series THE GIFTING and VISIONS OF BOOGA in downloadable, iPhone-viewable digital format. I’ll let you know when and where you can get ‘em as soon as they’re finalised.

TTFN

ACM

The long lost video for the bonkers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s second single Red Frame White Light - a love song to a telephone box.

Happy Woodstock anniversary

Peace

Alan X

for those of you who have asked about the dedication in the current Judge Dredd Megazine story “Tank Girl: Sunrise Doesn’t Last all Morning”, click on the link below to see our old tutor Chris Lowe giving a potted history of the building -

The End Of WSCD Worthing

Thanks
Alan X

The Wassailing Song by Blur. Apparently this is the rarest, most sought after indie single, ever! Only 500 copies pressed and given away free after a Christmas show in 1992, not many survived. It’s a one-sided 7 inch, featuring a traditional Wassail, the only Blur release to feature all four band members singing. My copy still has the pass for the after show party at Maison Rouge stuck on the front.

I’m going to auction this single to benefit a friends charity, but I thought I would post it here first to see if anyone wanted to make me a ridiculous offer for it.

Alan X

interview with me and Ruf up at previewsworld.com

http://previewsworld.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=23&s=216&ai=85765&ssd=

A x

Out now is the third (and final – by me and Jamie, at least) book in the Tank Girl (ahem) “Remastered” series. Featuring a whole bunch of long lost pages and strips, including the 9-page Booga epic “Antidisestablishmentarianism” (incidentally, the longest one-word comic title, ever) which hasn’t seen print since 1995.

Worth the cover price alone is this fabulous picture of Hewlett & Martin on the cusp of tripping over the cliff that leads to Hollywood…

and this rarely seen illustration of Tank Girl holding two water bombs made out of rubber johnnies.

TANK GIRL BOOK 3 (Remastered)

Available now from all intelligent booksellers

Peace

Alan X