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First appearance
Deadline #1 (Oct. 1988)
Created by
Alan Martin Jamie Hewlett
In-story information
Full name
Rebecca Buck (Fonzie Rebecca Buckler)
Species
Human
Place of origin
Earth
Partnerships
Booga Stevie Barney Sub Girl Jet Girl
Abilities
Can pilot any kind of tank
Random acts of sex and violence
Can outrun any ice cream van
Tank Girl
Publication information
Schedule
Irregular
Format
Limited series
Genre
Independent Science fiction/Humour
Main character(s)
Tank Girl, Booga, Stevie, Barney, Sub Girl, Jet Girl, Camp Koala
Creative team
Written by
Alan Martin, Alan Grant, Peter Milligan
Artist(s)
Jamie Hewlett, Philip Bond, Glyn Dillon, Ashley Wood, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Jim Mahfood, Brett Parson, Jonathan Edwards, Craig Knowles, Rufus Dayglo, Andy Pritchett, Bill Strohacker, Mike McMahon
Tank Girl is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine Deadline, and then in the solo comic book series Tank Girl. After a period of intense popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tank Girl inspired a 1995 feature film. After a long hiatus, the character returned to comics in 2007 and has appeared regularly in the years since.
Originally written by Martin and drawn by Hewlett, the character has also been drawn by Philip Bond, Glyn Dillon, Ashley Wood, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Jim Mahfood, Brett Parson, Jonathan Edwards, Craig Knowles, Rufus Dayglo, Andy Pritchett, Bill Strohacker and Mike McMahon.
Tank Girl (Rebecca Buck – later revealed to have been born as Fonzie Rebecca Buckler) drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw for her sexual inclinations and her substance abuse. The comic centres on her misadventures with her boyfriend, Booga, a mutant kangaroo. The comic's irreverent style is heavily influenced by punk visual art, and strips are frequently deeply disorganized, anarchic, absurdist, and psychedelic. The strip features various elements with origins in surrealist techniques, fanzines, collage, cut-up technique, stream of consciousness, and metafiction, with very little regard or interest for conventional plot or committed narrative.
The strip was initially set in a post-apocalyptic (rendered self-fending due to an implied nuclear armageddon) Australia, although it drew heavily from contemporary British pop culture.
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