Chichester man had role in creating 'Tank Girl' artwork that turned into Hollywood movie
Chichester art gallery owner Bill Strohacker helped Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin create the artwork for Tank Girl, that ended up as a Hollywood film.
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00:00 One of the stories which is quite interesting is the evolution of Tank Girl,
00:05 which was created by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin.
00:10 And obviously my involvement was that, obviously I sat next to Jamie at art college
00:16 and I helped out on quite a lot of the artworks with them,
00:20 just like colouring in stuff, drawing etc.
00:23 And one of the breaks that I had was to put together the first graphic novel.
00:29 So, which included a lot of their original comic strips.
00:35 And one of the great things that happened from that was that
00:39 we were actually sitting in their lounge one day and we had a phone call
00:45 and it was a woman saying she was a Hollywood film producer
00:51 and everyone was laughing and joking about it.
00:54 And then after several phone calls, eventually they took it seriously
00:59 and it turned out she was a Hollywood film producer
01:01 and she basically had heard about Tank Girl from her daughter
01:07 who had been reading the comic strips and decided that it would be a great idea for a film.
01:14 So it was turned into a Hollywood film and I think the star was starring Laurie Petty
01:20 and there was quite a lot of celebrities in it at the time.
01:24 And yeah, so that was produced back in the day.
01:27 And now I understand that she's been producing several Doctor Who series as well, actually.