Sharpies in Popular Culture
- Sharpies (1974) is a film by Greg Macainsh
- Photographer Rennie Ellis has included portraits of sharpies in his works
- Magda Szubanski, in her early years as a comedian on The D-Generation and Fast Forward, played a character who dressed in sharpie style, and performed a sharpie dance which bears a strong resemblance to skanking
- Queeny (1994), Deep (1997), and Suburban Warriors (2003) are short films by Rebecca McLean related to sharpies
- Blackburn South Sharpies' member Greg Robertson curated Sharpies, a photographic exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney in 2001–02, and also as part of the 2002 Melbourne International Fashion Festival
- Blackburn South Sharpies' member Larry Jenkins also photographically documented this gang
- The Australian Broadcasting Corporation featured sharpies in a 2002 episode of George Negus' New Dimensions In Time
- Photographer Carol Jerrems studied the sharpie subculture
- Levi released "Levi's Black Sharps", a denim range inspired by sharpies
- Top Fellas: The Story of Melbourne's Sharpie Cult is a 2004 book by Tadhg Taylor on Melbourne's sharpies
- Rage: A Sharpie's Journal Melbourne 1974–1980 is a 2010 book by Julie Mac on Melbourne's sharpies
- "Out With The Boys: The Sharpie Days" is a 2011 book by the Seagull about the Sydney Sharpies of the 1960s
- Once Were Sharps: The colourful life and times of the Thomastown Sharps is a book by Nick Tolewski, written by Dean Crozier
- A resurgence of interest in the Sharpie sub-culture in recent times included Skins'n'Sharps Exhibitions in 2006 (Dante's Gallery, Fitzroy) and 2010 (Kustom Lane Gallery, Hawthorn) and a dedicated website Skins'n'Sharps
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