Jim Connolly (illustrator)

Relaxed Muscle, a side-project of Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Jason Buckle, used a Connolly-penned depiction of the band on the digital content on their album A Heavy Night With....

[1] Connolly's love of punk rock led him also to design posters for appearances by The Buzzcocks,[3] The Damned,[4] The Misfits and Zombina and the Skeletones.

[5] Swampy bluesmith Mr David Viner also received the poster treatment on a visit to Sheffield University Students Union.

Sandman Magazine has also recently used Connolly's work in articles featuring Madchester icon Clint Boon[8] and all-female Manchester punk band Hotpants Romance.

[9] In 2008, The Archipelago Press Company released a silkscreen print by Connolly satirising the destruction of Sheffield's iconic Tinsley cooling towers.

[10][5] In April 2009 a third print was released entitled 'Bargains of the Damned', which features a mock zombie film poster with a parody of South Yorkshire mall Meadowhall shopping centre as the focus.

[5][10] Alongside future art prints Connolly is also collaborating with graphic novelist Anjan Sarkar on a comic project titled 'Moronoid'.

'Relaxed Muscle' by Jim Connolly.
Jim Connolly's 'Terror at Tinsley Towers'.