Eric's a poster boy for Manchester with new artwork

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- BETH ABBIТ

ERIC Jackson often has his tongue firmly wedged in his cheek.

The artist has created a large collection of (sometimes cheeky) posters celebrating Greater Manchester's villages, towns and boroughs. They've been described as "brilliant, witty and acerbic" by BBC presenter and DJ Mark Radcliffe.

Eric's Fallowfield poster calls the student suburb 'Home of the brainy, bars and bedsits! 'The never-ending ideological struggle between East and West in Didsbury' reads his poster for the leafy south Manchester suburb.

While his Prestwich poster knowingly references that famous song lyric 'spank me on the bottom with the Woman's Weekly' by the late, great Prestwich local Victoria Wood.