Jamie Hewlett, comic book hero

Monkey: Journey to the West was designed by Hewlett and features music by Damon Albarn. The show was conceived by the Chinese opera specialist Chen Shi-Zheng Photograph: Marie-Noelle Robert

The opera, based on a 16th-century novel by Wu Cheng'en, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2007. The Guardian's Alfred Hickling called it "a high-octane, 90-minute rock'n'roll circus, performed in Mandarin and featuring over 50 Chinese acrobats" Photograph: Marie-Noelle Robert

2007 poster advertising a production of Monkey: Journey to the West at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris Photograph: PR

Buddha Mountain (2007). A scene from the opera Monkey: Journey to the West at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, designed by Hewlett and with music by Damon Albarn Photograph: Marie Noëlle Robert/Marie Noëlle Robert

Atomtan cover (1985). While at Northbrook College in West Sussex, Hewlett and fellow student Philip Bond created the fanzine Atomtan. It was the first place the Tank Girl character appeared Photograph: PR

A 1989 frame from Tank Girl, the expanded strip that Hewlett created with writer Adam Martin for Deadline, a graphic art and culture magazine Photograph: PR

Hewlett designed record covers for 90s bands including Cud and Senseless Things. This image is the sleeve art for the 1991 Senseless Things EP Got It At The Delmar Photograph: PR

A frame from Hewlett’s 1995 graphic adaptation of the lyrics to Pulp’s Common People, starring a cartoon Jarvis Cocker Photograph: PR

Hewlett and Damon Albarn launched their cartoon band Gorillaz in 2001. This is artwork produced for the second album, Demon Days, in 2005 Photograph: PR

Hewlett has designed a series of ident sequences for the BBC's Olympics coverage, which will be seen on TV from later this month Photograph: PR