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Tank GirlTank Girl was a 1990s English comic strip and the name of the leading character. Drawn by Jamie Hewlett and written by Alan Martin, later writing was done by Peter Milligan. As the name suggests, Tank Girl drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organisation before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw; later strips were deeply disorganised and chaotic. Initially set in a stylised Australia, other major characters were Booga (a kangaroo and Tank Girl's boyfriend), the soft toys Camp Koala and Mr. Precocious, Stevie, Barney, Sub Girl and Jet Girl. She first appeared in Deadline magazine, from issue 1 (1988) until the end of the magazine in 1995. The strip also had in its own publication, Tank Girl in 1991, with an extended break in 1992; the comic ended after eight issues in September 1993. The efforts peaked with a 1995 film directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Lori Petty. The film was critically mauled and did extremely poorly, Deadline collapsed and the character and the strip have not re-appeared since. Jamie Hewlett went on to make his fortune creating Gorillaz with Blur's Damon Albarn. Alan Martin lives in a caravan in Wales. External links
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