Martin Vaughn-James, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Martin Vaughn-James

British painter, illustrator and comics author in Belgium

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1943

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Jul-2009

Profession: comics artist, painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Martin Vaughn-James (born in Bristol on December 5, 1943 and died on July 3, 2009 in Provence) was a painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
After spending time in London, Toronto, Tokyo and Paris, he lived for a long time in Brussels. He is best known for a series of graphic novels he published while living in Canada in the 1970s: Elephant (1970), The Projector (1971), The Park (1972) and The Cage (1975).
The Cage is perhaps his best known work, the subject of critical study, including a monograph by French critic Thierry Groensteen, La construction de la cage (Impressions Nouvelles, 2002), and has been reprinted in several editions in French and English. From the mid-1980s, Vaughn-James devoted himself primarily to painting, exhibiting regularly in France, Belgium and Germany.
He was the co-founder with the painter Hastaire of the Groupe Mémoires (1999) group of painters.