First unveiled at London’s Whitecross Street Market in 2002, Happy Choppers combines cartoon-like playfulness with biting anti-war critique. Banksy depicts Apache attack helicopters symbols of military power adorned with pink bows, transforming machines of destruction into unsettling parodies of innocence.

In 2003, the work was released as a screen print in an edition of 750 (600 unsigned, 150 signed, plus 33 artist’s proofs). Through irony and contrast, Happy Choppers highlights the absurdity of romanticising war and blind obedience to authority.