This is a large shooting target poster drawn by Malik, printed in 1984. 88x64 cm Recently these posters were seen in the tv - program Salvage Hunters with Drew Pritchard. The targets in this show and the ones you can find on ebay are from the 90s and are smaller in size. This one however is one of the very first from 1984 and it's larger ... In the early 1980s, an officer of the Judicial Police from Belgian city Liège, Francis Dorao, began seeking a cost-effective method for providing more realistic simulations or high-risk situations for police target training, claiming that the traditional black silhouette targets did not adequately prepare officers to face actual human opponents or to make the split-second decisions necessary when distinguishing between an armed threat and an innocent bystander. A comic book fan, Dorao began contacting artists from the fertile Belgian comics scene to solicit artwork for the new kinds of targets he imagined. Comics illustrators including François Walthéry, Arthur Piroton, Gilbert Gascard (Tibet), Herman Huppe (author or post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah), and William Vance provided artwork for Dorao's targets, with several of the more striking images being drawn by William Tai, also know as Malik, who is perhaps best known for Cupidon, his long-running comic about the misadventures of Cupid (he was also well known for his erotic comics drawn under the pseudonym Phénix). The targets were an immediate success, becoming popular outside of Belgium and leading to a paradoxical circle of causality whereby police officers were trained using images created by artists who often specialized in producing spectacular versions of the exploits of police officers for consumption through comics. Dorao — whose company, PJL Targets, still supplies "realistic" training targets — became friends with several of the artists he hired and contributed a script, 1986’s Neige Poudreuse à Liège (Powder Snow in Liège), to Franco-Belgian police comic series Jess Long, illustrated by Arthur Piroton.