Art & Hue celebrates 60 years of Mrs Emma Peel

By John Freeman on August 1, 2025

Art & Hue “The Avengers” Avengers Titles Pair (2025)

This year marks 60 years since Emma Peel first debuted on British television. In The Avengers. To mark the anniversary of Diana Rigg’s impactful character, Art & Hue is celebrating with a new RGB colourway of their popular Titles pop art print, plus greeting cards featuring the iconic groundbreaking female spy.

A trailblazer in the world of television, defining what it meant to be a female action hero, Emma Peel was intelligent, capable, and fiercely independent. Her character challenged traditional gender norms, offering a new model of femininity that resonated with audiences globally during the burgeoning feminist movement of the 1960s.

Her influence extended far beyond The Avengers, inspiring a generation of female characters in film, TV, and comics with many modern heroines owing a debt to Emma Peel’s groundbreaking portrayal.

Mrs Peel proved that a woman could be both glamourous and powerful, and she remains a cultural icon to this day, celebrated for her wit, strength, and style.

To mark 60 years of Mrs Emma Peel, Art & Hue has added a new colourway of their Titles pop art prints inspired by “The Avengers” title sequence featuring Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee, as well as a collection of greeting cards with the iconic spies. The prints are available in A4, A3, and A2 sizes to fit standard-size picture frames

An official collaboration with Studiocanal, raise a figurative glass with Art & Hue to toast the 60th anniversary of Mrs Peel at artandhue.com/peel60

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.