| Publisher: | Originally IPC Media (Fleetway) until 1999, thereafter Rebellion Developments |
| Debut: | 2000 AD #700 (1991) |
| Creators: | Peter Milligan (writer) Jamie Hewlett (artist) |
Hewligan’s Haircut is a comic series created by Peter Milligan and Jamie Hewlett that appeared in the British magazine 2000 AD in 1990. The title character’s name is a blend of Hewlett and Milligan, and a play on "hooligan".
The series is a surreal comedy. Hewligan, an inmate of an insane asylum, gives himself a haircut with a pair of plastic scissors only for an inexplicable hole to appear in his huge pompadour, causing an apocalyptic bending of reality. The plot takes the form of a madcap interdimensional quest for Hewligan and his reality-warping companion Scarlet O’Gasmeter to set things straight.
Writing about Hewligan’s Haircut for Time, Douglas Wolk remarks that as with “Milligan’s other comics, the idea of madness is a license to pour anything and everything onto the page”.[1] Wolk cites MAD comics as a major antecedent of Hewlett’s artwork, which incorporates a self-conscious mishmash of techniques and reference points, including fanzines, collage, Dada, cubism and pop art.