Alexandria nick bantock biography

Entry updated 9 October 2023. Tagged: Artist, Author, Comics.

(1949-    ) UK artist, illustrator and author, in Canada from 1988; active as an illustrator from around 1962, with at least 300 covers credited to him, some as by Nick Fox.

Much of his work, which is either collage-like or consists of actual (though clearly massaged) collages, conveys a sense that narrative energies are suppressed within the image, and threaten to become explicitly storyable, like a Cabinet of Curiosities jinxed into life: hints that his work contains half-hidden codes to matters concealed for good reasons, that the relationship between artefact and some storyable essence is a kind of loaded pun, a tease on his Modernist roots.

Early experiments seem to be echoed, such as the famous collage-based experiments by Max Ernst (1891-1976), the most famous being Une semaine de bonté ["A Week of Kindness"] (graph 1934 5vols), though Bantock does not seem much inclined to use act