From the legendary to live-action animations with , a Chinese contemporary opera to an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, artist . With influences ranging from hip hop to zombie slasher movies, Hewlett emerged in the mid-1990s as co-creator of the zeitgeist-defining comic. With then-roommate Damon Albarn, he went on to create the . The award-winning virtual pop group of animated characters is a truly global phenomenon. Gorillaz have topped charts around the world, toured the globe from San Diego to Syria, and picked up hundreds of millions of streams and record sales along the way. Since then, Hewlett has continued to collaborate with Albarn on projects including an elaborate staging of the Chinese novel by Wu Cheng’en, complete with circus acrobats, Shaolin monks, and Chinese singers. In 2006, he was named by the Design Museum in London, and in 2009, Hewlett and Albarn won a for their animated Monkey sequence for the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2015 , an exhibition of prints at the in London, demonstrated an exciting new direction in Hewlett’s practice. This special edition celebrating TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary updates Hewlett’s first major monograph with . The book illustrates his thrilling creative journey with more than . Through stories, characters, strips, and sketches, we trace Hewlett’s exceptional capacity for invention and celebrate a , or to be pigeonholed into a particular practice.