Deadline magazine

Deadline was a British magazine published between 1988 and 1996. Created by comic artists Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon, it featured a mix of comic strips and written articles targeted at older readers. Much of the its non-cartoon content centred on alternative and indie music, and coupled with the subversive nature of many of the comic strips, the magazine had a distinctive counterculture ethos. It was most famous for being the original home of Jamie Hewlett's Tank Girl. Other notable strips included Wired World by Philip Bond, Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis and Timulo by D'Israeli.

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British - 1988 - 1996 - Brett Ewins - Steve Dillon - Comic strips - Counterculture - Jamie Hewlett - Tank Girl - Philip Bond - Nick Abadzis - D'Israeli

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Owned and financed by Tom Astor (grandson of Nancy Astor) and latterly edited by Frank Wynne (subsequently translator of Michel Houellebecq), it published original material, and also ran reprints of American alternative comics such as Love and Rockets and Evan Dorkin strips such as Milk and Cheese. However, the commercial failure of the Tank Girl film project and the advent of more a mainstream focus for the indie scene (around the time of Britpop, a movement it had helped to champion) saw the magazine eventually fold in 1995. The art of Jamie Hewlett lives on in the band Gorillaz.

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Nancy Astor - Frank Wynne - Michel Houellebecq - Alternative comics - Love and Rockets - Evan Dorkin - Milk and Cheese - Tank Girl - Britpop - 1995 - Gorillaz

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Content from the magazine was reprinted in the US by Dark Horse Comics as Deadline USA.

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US - Dark Horse Comics

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