DEAN, Mal

(1941-1974)

   UK illustrator who died young, of cancer. MD was well known in the jazz world (he illustrated for Melody Maker) and in sf for the work he did for NEW WORLDS in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was especially associated with the Jerry Cornelius stories by Michael MOORCOCK and others. His work was mainly in black-and-white with a broad line and much cross-hatching; it was strong, often deliberately unpolished, but the reverse of artless. He favoured surreal juxtapositions, and often worked in the grotesque satirical tradition of Hogarth.

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