Martin Vaughn-James

Life & Legacy

Martin Vaughn-James (5 December 1943 – 3 July 2009) was a cartoonist, painter, and illustrator. 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 2002 monograph by French critic Thierry Groensteen, La construction de la cage, 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.