Punk rock, Manchester illustration and Nihilism
There are a lot of anniversaries in the UK this year, most significant for me being the 30th year since my first professional illustration job. The commission for Fatbag in 1982 was an important threshold on a journey that had begun years before. Recent programmes on BBC TV and radio celebrating punk and it’s legacy have brought back a lot of memories of that time. First let me say I was never truely a punk, the revolution was arguably already over by the time I cottoned onto