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''Tank Girl'' is a British comic created by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin. Originally drawn by Jamie Hewlett, it 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, and Mike McMahon. The eponymous character Tank Girl (Rebecca Buck) 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 style was heavily influenced by punk visual art, and strips were 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 stylized post-apocalyptic Australia,〔(Tank Girl History )〕 although it drew heavily from contemporary British pop culture. ==Publication history== Martin and Hewlett first met in the mid-1980s in Worthing, when Martin was in a band with Philip Bond called the University Smalls. One of their tracks was a song called "Rocket Girl". They had started adding the suffix 'girl' to everything habitually after the release of the ''Supergirl'' movie, but "Rocket Girl" was a student at college who Bond had a crush on and apparently bore a striking resemblance to a ''Love and Rockets'' character. They began collaborating on a comic/fanzine called ''Atomtan'', and while working on this, Jamie had drawn The image was published in the fanzine as a one-page ad, but the ''Tank Girl'' series first appeared in the debut issue of ''Deadline'' (1988), a UK magazine intended as a forum for new comic talent and it continued until the end of the magazine in 1995. ''Tank Girl'' became quite popular in the politicized indie counterculture zeitgeist as a cartoon mirror of the growing empowerment of women in punk rock culture. Posters-shirts and underpants began springing up everywhere, including one especially made for the Clause 28 march against Margaret Thatcher's legislation. Clause 28 stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship." ''Deadline'' publisher Tom Astor said, "In London, there are even weekly lesbian gatherings called 'Tank Girl nights.'" With public interest growing, Penguin, the largest publishing company in Britain, bought the rights to collect the strips as a book, and before long, ''Tank Girl'' had been published in Spain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Argentina, Brazil and Japan, with several United States publishers fighting over the license. Finally Dark Horse Comics won out, and the strips were reprinted in color beginning in '91, with an extended break in '92, and ending in September '93. A graphic novel-length story named ''Tank Girl: The Odyssey'' was also published in '95, written by Peter Milligan and loosely inspired by Homer's ''Odyssey'', Joyce's ''Ulysses''〔(nalysis of the parallels between ''Tank Girl: The Odyssey'' and Homer and Joyce's works )〕 and a considerable quantity of junk TV. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tank Girl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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