Jamie Hewlett

Jamie Hewlett is one of those visual artists whose style I'd recognize instantly. Tank Girl, co-created with Alan Martin, already marked him as a punky, irreverent talent, but it's Gorillaz that cemented him for me. Building a whole virtual band's identity alongside Damon Albarn was a genuinely original idea, and the fact that the cartoon characters became as iconic as the music is entirely down to his design sense. Out of Horsham, he turned illustration into something that crossed into pop culture at the highest level. I see him as proof that a comics artist can shape mainstream music's look as powerfully as any musician shapes its sound.

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Name (English)

Jamie Hewlett

Name (Japanese)

ジェイミー・ヒューレット

Reading

じぇいみー・ひゅーれっと

Born

April 3, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Horsham, United Kingdom

Occupation

comics artist / illustrator / screenwriter / director / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

University

Northbrook College

• Official sitehttps://www.jamiehewlett.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hewll/
• Xhttps://x.com/JamieHewlett
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Hewlett
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522966

Tags

• comics artist
• illustrator
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.