Tank Girl

Tank Girl
Publication information
Publisher	Deadline Publications Ltd. Dark Horse Comics DC Vertigo IDW Publishing Image Comics Titan Comics
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.