NEWS: Banksy Makes Bank for Bangladesh

Artist Carlo Raffa, from Brighton, was the first in line to buy one of the prints.

"I arrived at 11:30 pm with two friends and we slept in thermals wrapped in sleeping bags in the doorway. We were not the only ones," said the 33-year-old.

"I have been trying to get my hands on a Banksy for the last three years, so I didn't want to miss out." Banksy started out spray-painting walls and bridges with political messages and anti-war slogans.

One of his most recent pieces is of a man who bears a resemblance to Michael Jackson crouching at the doorway of a gingerbread cottage offering children candy.

The print for sale today was also satirical—a spoof of the famous photograph of US soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima. In Banksy's version, the figures are urban protesters, clambering on a wrecked car.

Mr Raffo said the event was only advertised on a chalkboard inside the shop, which is open for 23 days over Christmas.

He said: "Unfortunately, I was disappointed. It was machine-printed with no signature or number, which I thought was a bit of a mockery of all of his fans. I am probably going to sell mine on eBay.

The first 25 people in the queue got a free poster of the Tony Blair work, which I was happier with."