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==Publication history== |
==Publication history== |
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Martin and Hewlett first met in the mid-1980s in [[Worthing]], while studying at The West Sussex College of Art and Design (WSCD, later renamed [[Northbrook Metropolitan College|Northbrook College]]). Martin was in the college band The University Smalls with fellow comics enthusiast [[Philip Bond]]. One of their songs was called "Rocket Girl". They had started adding the suffix 'girl' to everything habitually after the release of the ''[[Supergirl (1984 film)|Supergirl]]'' movie, but "Rocket Girl" was a student at college on whom Bond had a crush and who apparently bore a striking resemblance to a ''[[Love and Rockets (comics)|Love and Rockets]]'' character.{{which|date=December 2021}} Martin and Hewlett began collaborating on a comic/[[fanzine]] called ''Atomtan'', and while working on this, Hewlett had drawn: |
Martin and Hewlett first met in the mid-1980s in [[Worthing]], while studying at The West Sussex College of Art and Design (WSCD, later renamed [[Northbrook Metropolitan College|Northbrook College]]). Martin was in the college band The University Smalls with fellow comics enthusiast [[Philip Bond]]. One of their songs was called "Rocket Girl". They had started adding the suffix 'girl' to everything habitually after the release of the ''[[Supergirl (1984 film)|Supergirl]]'' movie, but "Rocket Girl" was a student at college on whom Bond had a crush and who apparently bore a striking resemblance to a ''[[Love and Rockets (comics)|Love and Rockets]]'' character.{{which|date=December 2021}} Martin and Hewlett began collaborating on a comic/[[fanzine]] called ''Atomtan'', and while working on this, Hewlett had drawn: |
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{{quote|A grotty-looking beefer of a girl brandishing an unfeasible firearm. One of our friends was working on a project to design a pair of [[headphones]] and was basing his design on the type used by World War II tank drivers. His studio in Worthing was littered with loads of photocopies of combat vehicles. I pinched one of the images and gave it to Jamie who then stuck it behind his grotty girl illustration and then added a logo which read 'Tank Girl'.<ref name="Alan Martin interview">{{cite web|url=http://www.sci-fi-online.com/Interview/02-11-22_AlanMartin.htm|title=Alan Martin on Tank Girl – Interview|publisher=Sci-Fi Online|access-date=6 July 2016}}</ref>}} |
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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 magazine|Deadline]]'' (1988),<ref name=regender>{{cite book | first1=Imelda |last1=Whelehan |first2 =Esther |last2=Sonnet |chapter=Regendered Reading: ''Tank Girl'' and Postmodernist Intertextuality |page=31| editor1-last = Cartmell | editor1-first = Deborah | title = Trash Aesthetics | publisher = [[Pluto Press]] | location = Sydney | year = 1997 | isbn = 0-7453-1202-0 }}</ref> a UK magazine intended as a forum for new [[comic]] talent, and it continued until the end of the magazine in 1995. |
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 magazine|Deadline]]'' (1988),<ref name=regender>{{cite book | first1=Imelda |last1=Whelehan |first2 =Esther |last2=Sonnet |chapter=Regendered Reading: ''Tank Girl'' and Postmodernist Intertextuality |page=31| editor1-last = Cartmell | editor1-first = Deborah | title = Trash Aesthetics | publisher = [[Pluto Press]] | location = Sydney | year = 1997 | isbn = 0-7453-1202-0 }}</ref> a UK magazine intended as a forum for new [[comic]] talent, and it continued until the end of the magazine in 1995. |