Alt-Pop Profiles with Anika: #1 Tyler, The Creator

We’ve always had a soft spot for Anika Mottershaw here at The Line Of Best Fit. We first started featuring her comics a year or two back when, at the time, Anika was a first year university student studying Business. She hated it. She hated it so much that she dropped out and, instead of skulking back to her family home, she plotted her own path… In her own, shall we say, unique style.

Anika is the epitome of DIY. She exists purely to spread her love of music through any medium possible. Be it promoting shows under the alias of The Allotment (possibly the only promoter in London that provides free cup cakes on entry), photographing bands, working at Bella Union – one of the UK’s most esteemed labels, making music videos or drawing totally surreal and often quite fucking disturbing comics – she succeeds because she does it her way, never succumbing to peer pressure or what happens to be cool. She would probably like to see herself as an anti-hipster superhero.

All of this work comes to a head with the release of her first published book. Anika In London is a selection of comics and drawings from her past two years in London. Released through Something In Construction, a launch party is being held on April 12 at the Strongrooms, East London from 7-10pm with bands TBC. The Line Of Best Fit will be there to DJ.

In this new weekly feature, Anika will provide us with a never before seen illustration of some of the most iconic pop stars of today. Kicking things off with a bag full of swag, is her interpretation of the formidable Tyler, The Creator.

Follow her oft surreal quips via Twitter: @AnikaInLondon.