When Caterpillars Collide!

By John Freeman on April 22, 2021

Godzilla versus King Kong? No, no gentle readers! This – a battle between Marks and Spencer’s Colin the Caterpillar and Aldi‘s Cuthbert the Caterpillar – is what everyone has been waiting for!

Cuthbert the Caterpillar By Jim’ll Paint It

Yes, responding to a request from fan Danny Page, the Bristol-based artist working as “Jim’ll Paint It” rose to a challenge to paint the two high street insect-inspired adversaries, kaiju style, bringing their current trademark legal battle to life in style.

As you can imagine, despite bigger stories this week (something to do with football, apparently), Jim’s kaiju conflict has quickly gone viral after he posted it to his social media , including his Facebook page and on Twitter.

Jim describes himself as “a human male from Bristol, England”.

He is best known for his popular ongoing social media project Jim’ll Paint It where, using an archaic version of Windows Paint, he takes requests from his followers and turns them into bizarre and often intricately detailed paintings.

The Artist Formerly Known As Prince having a fight with Prince Harry over who is least known as Prince now. In the background we can see the The Queen, and Queen (the band) also fighting over a similar thing. Requested by Lee Wheeler

His work has previously been retweeted by many of his subjects including Sir Alan Sugar and Phillip Schofield. He has produced artwork for clients as diverse as National Geographic and Transform-A-Snack and featured in The Guardian, The Independent and Vice.

Roses are Red Violets are Blue I actually really like Predator 2 — *Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, I actually really like Predator 2*

Robots by Jim’ll Paint It. Yes, of course it’s available as a print — *Yes, of course it’s available as a print*

Among his other creations is a series of labels for That Boutiquey Rum Company, an experimental image generator for BBC Three and two animated shorts for video game parody channel Mashed.

In 2014 he published his first book, Electric Dreams, which compiled his earliest work. The follow up, Of Mouse and Man was released in 2019.

When he is not painting he enjoys watching obscure horror films and playing old video games.

• Check out the Jim’ll Paint It web site here

• Definitely T-shirt weather again – get a good one and help support the work that Jim does

• See the latest from Jim and make your own requests on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

• Retail Gazette – Caterpillars in court: What retailers can learn from M&S and Aldi’s copycat row

• Read Misha Begley’ review of Godzilla vs. Kong here on downthetubes

Thanks to Iskander Islam for spotting this!

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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.