Photo: User:GorillazMonkeyZ / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
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.
Overview
Jamie Christopher Hewlett (born 3 April 1968) is a British comic book artist and illustrator. He is the co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl with Alan Martin, and the virtual band Gorillaz alongside Blur frontman Damon Albarn.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Monkey
- Origin
- Horsham, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- comics artist / illustrator / screenwriter / director / songwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Northbrook College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.