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Meet Tim Doyle, contemporary illustrator, print maker and king of ‘nerd cool’. Drawing inspiration from a life long love of comic books and video games, Doyle creates prints of inimitable style that incorporate cultural icons from the music industry to art house film into a graphic aesthetic like no other. ‘Don’t Mention The War Fawlty Towers’ takes cult comedy Fawlty Towers and creates a striking print, in the detailed, illustrative style of a graphic novel. Doyle depicts Basil Fawlty, his head wrapped in bandages, one eye asquint. The guilty moose perpetrator of Basil’s head injury looms in the background, against a red patterned wallpaper. Doyle has transformed the 70s TV series into a Hammer horror aesthetic, with tongue in cheek panache. It’s a powerful snapshot, filled with painstaking detail, for a compelling piece of contemporary print work.
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