Nick Bantock

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Nick Bantock (b. July 14, 1949 in Stourbridge, England) is a British artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Bantock is well-known for his popular series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, and for making collage popular. His books are published by Raincoast Books in Canada and Chronicle Books in the United States.

Bantock attended schools in the northeast suburbs of London, and later an art college in Maidstone, Kent. He began a career as a freelance artist at the age of 23, producing 300 book covers in the ensuing 16 years. In 1988 he moved to Vancouver, where he now lives with his family.

In 1993, he won the Bill Duthie Bookseller's Choice Award for Sabine's Notebook.

In 2006, he adapted the Griffin and Sabine series into a play, also called "Griffin and Sabine", which premiered in Vancouver at the Granville Island Stage and ran from October 5-November 4 2006.

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The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy
- Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (1991)
- Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues (1992)
- The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes (1993)
The Morning Star Trilogy
- The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine is Rediscovered (2001)
- Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Unfolds (2002)
- The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine is Illuminated (2003)
The Egyptian Jukebox (1993)
Averse to Beasts (1994)
The Venetian's Wife (1996)
Paris Out of Hand (1996)
Capolan ArtBox (1997)
The Forgetting Room (1997)
The Museum at Purgatory (1999)
The Artful Dodger: Images and Reflections (2000) - a visual autobiography, and retrospective
Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera (2004)
Windflower (2006) - with Edoardo Ponti