Wallace and Gromit villain Feathers McGraw becomes tattoo parlour hit A month on from Feathers McGraw’s dramatic return as Wallace and Gromit’s silent nemesis, the villainous penguin seems to have become an unlikely hit at UK tattoo parlours.
McGraw, an evil penguin comically disguised as a chicken thanks to the red rubber glove he wears on his head, is the chief antagonist in Aardman’s Oscar-nominated Vengeance Most Fowl, which aired on Christmas Day last month.
“In this last week just gone I did six Feathers,” Faith Garvie, a tattoo artist at Black Moon Tattoo Studio in Liverpool, told the PA news agency.
This month, social media platforms have been awash with people posting pictures of their freshly inked McGraw tattoos, from Worcestershire to Lancashire and Cornwall.
Asked why she thinks the character has captured the imagination, Ms Garvie, 33, said: “I guess it’s just the magic of claymation, as he’s so emotive, but he doesn’t speak at all.”.
