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War Child Puzzle Path signed and dated 'Hewll99' (lower right) pencil, pen and wash 25.5 x 31.5cm, unframed

Footnote: In 1988, aged just 20, comic artist, illustrator and animator, Jamie Hewlett co-created Tank Girl, the comic which would launch his career. In contrast to the hyper-sexualised and hyper-feminised heroines of mainstream comic books, Hewlett’s iconic protagonist was heavy drinking, hard talking and aggressively androgynous. The success of this creation was such that the initial comic spawned further graphic novels and even a film adaptation. The following decade, in 1998, alongside Blur frontman, Damon Albarn, Hewlett co-created Gorillaz, the world’s first, and most successful, cartoon band. Although Jamie Hewlett has claimed that drawing is just the placement of lines in the correct position, the spirit captured in each of his energetic, colourful and meticulously detailed, graphic creations suggests that there is something more profound at play. The present lot is thought to include an illustration of Gorillaz band member Murdoc Faust Niccals.

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