Jamie Hewlett - Tank Girl (Deadline #25)

There is a piece you have been looking for since you started collecting. Not a particular piece, but a piece in general by that author with the main caracther on. You search and search, you ask around, you bother and stalk people but nothing happens. On CAF there are few pieces and none are for sale. Then you start hearing whispers from fellow collectors in the UK "he is buying his old stuff back!", "no one is selling as he is starting to sell big in the contemporary art market" and you know you won't find anything. The end. Then he reforms the band with his old time chap Damon Albarn and Gorillaz start touring again. F**k, sh**! Hewlett is going to be the next Warhol. That's what you think. Sad and almost depressed you shoot an email, waiting for the usual negative answer... But you never get that answer. It's normal, you think. Big and famous collector, no need nor will to sell, he is ignoring me. But what if he doean't read his mails from CAF? Let's try facebook. Oh, here comes a reply. Ohhhhhhhhhhh, he has one page on sale. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it Doesn't come cheap, he says. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, who cares I think, jsu show it to me, but I am sure I will buy with my eyes closed.
Sometimes patience, luck, hope work... Even if they don't come cheap. Who cares if
"The world is spinning too fast - I'm buying lead nike shoes - To keep myself tethered - To the days I've tried to lose - My mama said to slow down - You must make your own shoes - Stop dancing to the music - Of Gorillaz in a happy mood - Keeping my groove on" ("19-2000" by Gorillaz)