Coach House mourns the passing of Martin Vaughn-James
Coach House is saddened to learn of the passing of Martin Vaughn-James, a painter and groundbreaking comics artist who published three of his early works with Coach House Press: The Projector (1971), The Park (1972) and The Cage (1975). Vaughn-James is widely recognized as a pioneer in the development of the graphic novel; in its obituary, The Comics Reporter affirms that his early works 'stand as either seminal graphic novels from the generation in which that notion finally began to take hold, books that function in many ways like graphic novels but aren't quite the same thing, or works that have informed the development of or suggested possibilities for those kinds of books.'
Vaughn-James, whose painting has been the subject of several personal exhibitions, also published two works of prose fiction: Night Train (1989) and The Tomb of Zwaab (1991).
Visit the following link to read the Comics Reporter obituary:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/martin_vaughn_james_1943_2009/
And from the French-language comics news site Actua BD:
