Postcard, Darren Cullen, London, 2013

Darren Cullen is an artist living and working in East London. His first, self-published comic is “an absurd and potentially offensive satire on military recruitment and the false promises that come with life (and death) in the army.” The comic is printed on a single sheet of paper featuring a 1.48 metre Bayeux tapestry style recreation of the Iraq war.

His 'deluxe edition' contains several additional pull out pieces of work, including army related flyer adverts, A3 "Action Man Battlefield Casualties" poster, a 16 page 'Make Stuff Dead' mini-comic, postcards and stickers. Cullen uses black humour to great effect and has created a biting satire of the modern army. His lively illustrations and witty use of language are unapologetically controversial, yet Cullen’s comic provides a counter voice to the British Government and Armed Forces concerted efforts to boost their reputation and numbers in the wake of the unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Postcard entitled 'Wish You Were Here!'.