Gorillaz was a game-changer in the surprisingly deep history of virtual artists

Writer Alan Martin and illustrator Jamie Hewlett were the stars of Deadline magazine (the British comics magazine that stopped publishing in 1995, not the one you’re thinking of). This was thanks to Tank Girl, their hit comic series that even got a live-action movie adaptation in 1995. Among the comic’s fans was Graham Coxon, of the U.K.