Kid Acne

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Kid Acne
Born
Ed Bradbury

1978 (age 4546)
Lilongwe, Malawi
Website www.kidacne.com

Kid Acne (real name Ed Bradbury, [1] born 1978) is an artist, illustrator and hip-hop musician. He was born in Lilongwe, Malawi. [2]

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He grew up in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, and currently lives and works in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. He spent his formative years painting graffiti, creating fanzines and making limited run records on his own Invisible Spies imprint. His signature style has adorned products for leading brands such as Prada, Kenzo, Elle, Kid Robot, Brompton and Warp Records.

Discography

Albums

EPs and singles

Appears on

Zebra Face

Graffiti of Zebra Face, painted by Acne in Lutterworth. ZebrafaceGraffiti.jpg
Graffiti of Zebra Face, painted by Acne in Lutterworth.

Zebra Face is a cartoon character created by Kid Acne and Supreme Vagabond Craftsman. He is a bombastic stripey horse with a hip-hop obsession and an insulin dependent sidekick. Zebra Face first appeared in a one-page comic strip in Kid Acne's 'Velcro Grass' fanzine in 1995. Generating mild interest amongst the UK fanzine scene at the time, Zebra Face then became a fanzine of his own before the duo began working on a book, which was self-published in 2001.

Zebra Face was made into a short animated series for Channel 4, broadcast in Autumn 2012.

Selected solo exhibitions

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References

  1. Birch, Ashley (20 September 2019). "Interview: Kid Acne". RMC Media. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  2. "About – Kid Acne" . Retrieved 5 February 2021.