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Fanboy Rampage: Taylor Swift, Damon Albarn And... Jedward?
But… Damon did create the band Gorillaz with Jamie Hewlett, who he lived with for a good while And Hewlett is the creator of Tank Girl While Taylor Swift has had comic books made about her So has Damon Albarn Which means I am going to do this anyway. Damon Albarn photo by Henry W[...]
Jamie Hewlett Creates New 20th Anniversary Gorillaz Art Book From Z2
Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of Gorillaz will be joining over forty other artists for the new Gorillaz Art Book from Z2 Comics next spring for the 20th anniversary (stop it, really??) of Gorillaz with new interpretations of 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs in one volume, case bound at 12.6 x 9.2 inches and 288[...]
Blur's Graham Coxon Creating New Graphic Novel, Superstate
Should make a nice companion piece to their Gorillaz Almanac when that is published. Blur's Graham Coxon Creating New Graphic Novel, Superstate Superstate sees Graham Coxon working with co-writers Alex Paknadel (GIGA, Empyre, Friendo, Turncoat) and Helen Mullane (Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen) and 15 graphic artists including Christian Dibari, Marie Llovet and Ryan Kelly, The writers[...]
Gorillaz Release Pac-Man Song And Video For 40th Anniversary
Pac-Man is the fifth episode of Song Machine from Gorillaz The artificially manufactured band in every sense, originally created Blur's Damon Albarn and Tank Girl's Jamie Hewlett features US rapper ScHoolboy Q Produced by Prince Paul, Remi Kabaka Jr and recorded in London just before lockdown, Pac-Man ft ScHoolboy Q comes on the 40th anniversary of the[...]
Gorillaz Drop A New Track Dedicated To Pac-Man's Anniversary
Gorillaz just released a new music video today that helps celebrate Pac-Man's 40th anniversary with a song dedicated to the game The virtual music group has been releasing new tracks as part of an online series called Sound Machine, in which they basically are just putting out singles with their own music videos rather than[...]
Gorillaz' 2D to Appear on San Diego Comic-Con@Home Panel
Z2 Comics has announced the full line-up for its San Diego Comic-Con@Home Panel on this Thursday July 23rd at 3pm PST which will feature 2D of Gorillaz alongside Yungblud, Robby Krieger of The Doors, Dave Chisholm, Chris Miskiewicz, Noah Van Sciver, Leah Moore and Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux The pe-recorded panel has been moderated[...]
Grillaz Fans Invited to Submit Letters to Almanac
We mentioned before that Jamie Hewlett was working on the Gorillaz Alamanac – including the very first Gorillaz comics Well, Jamie is now inviting submissions in a 'letters to the editor' format that will appear in the Almanac from willing fans And they are doing so via their previously members-only Facebook group. Jamie Hewlett Invites Gorillaz[...]
Gorillaz Finally Get Their Own Comics in GorillazAlmanac Annual
Now it appears that Z2 Comics are using that format for the fictitious band Gorillaz. The Gorillaz Almanac, the first Gorillaz annual, will be published for October 2020 Considering Gorillaz were co-created by Jamie Hewlett with Damon Albarn, it seems well overdue that they will be getting their first comic book stores in the annual. Inspired by[...]
The Gorillaz Get a New Vinyl Figure Since 10 Years with Superplastic
The Gorillaz were all the buzz in the 2000s with some hit songs like Feel Good Inc and Clinton Eastwood Being a music fan in a collector world it's kinda hard because we don't get a lot of collectibles out there that can fulfill our music tastes However, this collectible right here definitely changes things[...]
A Gorillaz Animated Series Is In The Works
Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the animated music group Gorillaz, has told Exclaim.ca that an animated television series will make its debut in 2018 Hewlett will direct some of the episodes: I'll direct the first and the last one, but we'll have to get someone in to direct the other episodes I think even attempting to do[...]
Sons Of Balaur – The Gorillaz Of Metal
And the album they will release. It's basically Heavy Metal Gorillaz.  And they will be conducting a signing at Forbidden Planet London on May 14th. How, I'm not entirely sure… This is an event like you've never seen! Join Alec Worley and Pye Parr signing THE REALM OF THE DAMNED at the London Megastore SATURDAY 14th MAY from 1[...]
When Comic Creators Draw Album Covers – The Exhibition
Richard Corben did the cover to Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell, Jaime Hewlett naturally did the covers to the Gorillaz albums, as well as Cud and Senseless Things before it. To Becky Cloonan's brand new cover for Clutch's next LP. They're all part of a new exhibition of comic book creators' work on album covers curated by Sean Phillips, in Kendal, ahead[...]
Jamie Hewlett Posts The Return Of Gorillaz
"Yes Gorillaz Returns" – Jamie Hewlett. The flatmates fell out But it appears that last year's promises from Damon Albarn of a new Gorillaz thing for next year are coming to fruition And Jamie is drawing the crew again, and posting them to Instagram. And a potentially younger Noodles and Murdoc than we've seen… It made him the[...]
Jamie Hewlett's Wonderful Trees
After the success of Jamie Hewlett's work on Gorillaz, combined with his relative lack-of-a-rock-and-roll lifestyle, he is one of the richest living comic book artists on the planet, only beaten (I think) by David Choe. As a result, living in Paris with his wife and actress Emma de Caunes, he can basically draw what the hell[...]
Swipe File: Jimi Hendrix And Lou Reed
Jimi Hendrix by Moebius. And Lou Reed by Jamie Hewlett. Decades apart but joined together by influence... In Swipe File we present two or more images that
Jamie Hewlett, Posy Simmonds, Quentin Blake And Martin Rowson At The British Library Tonight
Gorillaz' Jamie Hewlett, Tamara Drewe's Posy Simmonds, Roald Dahl's Quentin Blake and The Guardian's Martin Rowson are talking comics and illustration at the British Library's Spring Festival, in concordance with the Late At The Library: Illuminate! exhibition Jamie will be talking, amongst other things, about Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's Skin. No I'm not going[...]
Ten Years Of Gorillaz Singles In One Jamie Hewlett Collage
Or go to the main website where you can rollover various aspects and pull out new images, facts, videos, and footage of The Gorillaz, to coincide with the release of the 2001-2011 Gorillaz singles collection. Just don't mention anything about Damon and Jamie falling out and that they won't talk to each other these days[...]
Damon Albarn, Alan Moore, Jamie Hewlett And The Two Doctor Dee Operas
Moore chose Dee as his subject, and Albarn, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the bands Blur and Gorillaz, came on board to write the music Moore later left "for reasons that we're not quite sure of", says Norris, but the seeds of the idea had been sown. Well, Moore seems to have[...]