The Haunted Head
Nick Blinko
Details
2009 November Book UK Coptic Cat London
~350 220 pages
1st edition
Stiff black wrappers
Without dust wrapper
Mauve marker
Original postcard with text from the novel
With CD by Rudimentary Peni "Wilfred Owen The Chances"
Chapters
  • Stigma Enigma...1
  • Shape Of Adrian IV's Head...4
  • Pagan Eruption...6
  • Brain/Cellar Suicide Baby...7
  • Hello I'm John McBride...8
  • Witches Potion...10
  • The Trapton Lapse...11
  • Brain Again...12
  • Follies/Odd Statues...13
  • The Witch Sampler...15
  • Phantom Ghoul...16
  • The Scrible...19
  • A Voice Escapes...20
  • Witch Curse...25
  • Odd Chess...28
  • That One Good Foist All My Goodness Onto That One...30
  • Goblins...31
  • Corpses...33
  • C,L,O,S,E,R,...36
  • Transvection Ointment...37
  • Echopraxia...39
  • Foetaloid...40
  • Mitre Man...41
  • Puddle Picture...42
  • Life/Death...43
  • Inflicted, Psychoseptic, Crypteye...44
  • Blood, Lichen...45
  • Morbid Morphology...47
  • Shabby Dandy...50
  • Sleepwalker...53
  • Asylum Suicides...54
  • Anti-Suicide Lotion/Pills...55
  • The Anti-Man...57
  • Kings Of The Mind...58
  • Mad Shadow...59
  • The Exiled Elixir...61
  • Headshrinkmaster...62
  • Morbid Obituaries...64
  • Abyss And The Void...67
  • Home Counties March On London...71
  • The Hermitage...72
  • Goblins And Gargoyles...73
  • Idea Collisions...74
  • Garden Of Gore...76
  • Mad Hatter Murders...77
  • I Am The Depictor Of This Picture...79
  • Mandrake...81
  • Arbitrary...83
  • Soul Destroyer & Monuments...85
  • Divided Minds Make United Revolt...88
  • Upside Out Inside Down World...90
  • The Mocking Man...95
  • Depth Behind Surface...97
  • Modes Of Sickness Transmission...102
  • Zombieoid...106
  • Finger Memory...107
  • Aranoia Populus...109
  • Spell...111
  • Winding Sheet...114
  • Wessex Ward...116
  • Psychopsychiatry...118
  • Every Second Of Your Life Is Still Going On Now...121
  • Spire And Tower Both Above + Below Ground...122
  • Alchemy...123
  • Equilibrium Contradictii...125
  • The Fart Ghost...128
  • Separated At Death...130
  • The Self-Haunter...132
  • Conjoined Unrelated...133
  • Urban Faeries...137
  • Palpably Palimpsest...139
  • The Hypnotist & The White Stalking Horse...143
  • He They Them Him...144
  • Minuscule Made Mad...145
  • Utter Guttersnipe...146
  • An Endless Supply Of New Numbers...148
  • Morbid Miniatures...149
  • Highly Energetic Ravings...152
  • When I Eat An Evil Tree...155
  • The Weeper...156
  • Nonsense...157
  • Shadow Show...161
  • Suicide Auction...163
  • Jack The Ripper...165
  • Alchemy X...166
  • Death Hex...168
  • Colours Of Angels...171
  • Seed Brain...172
  • What Sinner Name?...173
  • Carrion Callers...175
  • Platform Announcement...176
  • Named...177
  • Schizomorphic...179
  • Brain...183
  • I'm Your Old Doctor...186
  • Moon...189
  • Liberty Line...190
  • The Lunatics Revolution...193
  • Inverted Barrow...196
Sleeve Notes
All text and images ©Nick Blinko from 2009 till ∞

Nick Blinko's artwork is exclusively represented by the Henry Boxer Gallery

Layout and design by Miss Kat Cormie and David Tibet

Published by David Tibet and Coptic Cat

Especial thanks from David, Nick and Henry and Coptic Cat to Kat Cormie for her endless patience and creativity.
Without Kat this book would be only Haunted Air

Many thanks, too, to Andria Degens for her Sequencing of the Haunted Heads. Bless you also: Ossian Brown, Geoff Cox-Dorée, Paul Jackson and Mark Logan

Printed by CPI Antony Rowe Ltd., Bumpers Farm, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 6LH, England
Notes
From Durtro web page:

This hardback book is a limited edition, with blocked front cover and spine, pictorial end-papers with Nick's artwork on them and a book-ribbon. The novel itself is 200 pages long. Each copy will come with a 1-track CD featuring a newly-recorded and previously unreleased Rudimentary Peni song.

Nick wrote out a version of the book, in black ink, in his obsessively beautiful handwriting, on approximately 350 one-sided white postcards measuring 3 ½" x 5 ½" (90 x 147mm). Each copy of the book comes with one of these original postcards with text from the novel. This of course means that the book is limited to the number of manuscript cards. Once the cards are finished, the edition is ended.

Nick Blinko is represented in The Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne and The Outsider Collection and Archive, London.

'In the case of British artist Nick Blinko (b.1961), who has in the past been hospitalised, the need to make pictures is stronger than the desire for the psychic 'stability' brought by therapeutic drugs which adversely affects his ability to work. His images are constructed of microscopically detailed elements, sometimes consisting of literally hundreds of interconnecting figures and faces, which he draws without the aid of magnifying lenses and which contain an iconography that places him in the company of the likes of Bosch, Bruegel and the late Goya. These pictures produced in periods when he was not taking medication bring no respite from the psychic torment and delusions from which he suffers. In order to make art, Blinko risks total psychological exposure."

Professor Colin Rhodes, Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives, Thames & Hudson, 2000.

The page numbering in the index is out of step with the actual page numbering
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The Haunted Head
Nick Blinko
Details
2009 December Book UK Coptic Cat London
60 220 pages
2nd edition
Signed by Nick Blinko
Stiff maroon wrappers
Without dust wrapper
Black marker
Original pen and ink drawing on postcard
With CD by Rudimentary Peni "Wilfred Owen The Chances"
Chapters
  • Stigma Enigma...1
  • Shape Of Adrian IV's Head...4
  • Pagan Eruption...6
  • Brain/Cellar Suicide Baby...7
  • Hello I'm John McBride...8
  • Witches Potion...10
  • The Trapton Lapse...11
  • Brain Again...12
  • Follies/Odd Statues...13
  • The Witch Sampler...15
  • Phantom Ghoul...16
  • The Scrible...19
  • A Voice Escapes...20
  • Witch Curse...25
  • Odd Chess...28
  • That One Good Foist All My Goodness Onto That One...30
  • Goblins...31
  • Corpses...33
  • C,L,O,S,E,R,...36
  • Transvection Ointment...37
  • Echopraxia...39
  • Foetaloid...40
  • Mitre Man...41
  • Puddle Picture...42
  • Life/Death...43
  • Inflicted, Psychoseptic, Crypteye...44
  • Blood, Lichen...45
  • Morbid Morphology...47
  • Shabby Dandy...50
  • Sleepwalker...53
  • Asylum Suicides...54
  • Anti-Suicide Lotion/Pills...55
  • The Anti-Man...57
  • Kings Of The Mind...58
  • Mad Shadow...59
  • The Exiled Elixir...61
  • Headshrinkmaster...62
  • Morbid Obituaries...64
  • Abyss And The Void...67
  • Home Counties March On London...71
  • The Hermitage...72
  • Goblins And Gargoyles...73
  • Idea Collisions...74
  • Garden Of Gore...76
  • Mad Hatter Murders...77
  • I Am The Depictor Of This Picture...79
  • Mandrake...81
  • Arbitrary...83
  • Soul Destroyer & Monuments...85
  • Divided Minds Make United Revolt...88
  • Upside Out Inside Down World...90
  • The Mocking Man...95
  • Depth Behind Surface...97
  • Modes Of Sickness Transmission...102
  • Zombieoid...106
  • Finger Memory...107
  • Aranoia Populus...109
  • Spell...111
  • Winding Sheet...114
  • Wessex Ward...116
  • Psychopsychiatry...118
  • Every Second Of Your Life Is Still Going On Now...121
  • Spire And Tower Both Above + Below Ground...122
  • Alchemy...123
  • Equilibrium Contradictii...125
  • The Fart Ghost...128
  • Separated At Death...130
  • The Self-Haunter...132
  • Conjoined Unrelated...133
  • Urban Faeries...137
  • Palpably Palimpsest...139
  • The Hypnotist & The White Stalking Horse...143
  • He They Them Him...144
  • Minuscule Made Mad...145
  • Utter Guttersnipe...146
  • An Endless Supply Of New Numbers...148
  • Morbid Miniatures...149
  • Highly Energetic Ravings...152
  • When I Eat An Evil Tree...155
  • The Weeper...156
  • Nonsense...157
  • Shadow Show...161
  • Suicide Auction...163
  • Jack The Ripper...165
  • Alchemy X...166
  • Death Hex...168
  • Colours Of Angels...171
  • Seed Brain...172
  • What Sinner Name?...173
  • Carrion Callers...175
  • Platform Announcement...176
  • Named...177
  • Schizomorphic...179
  • Brain...183
  • I'm Your Old Doctor...186
  • Moon...189
  • Liberty Line...190
  • The Lunatics Revolution...193
  • Inverted Barrow...196
Sleeve Notes
All text and images ©Nick Blinko from 2009 till ∞

Nick Blinko's artwork is exclusively represented by the Henry Boxer Gallery

Layout and design by Miss Kat Cormie and David Tibet

Published by David Tibet and Coptic Cat

Especial thanks from David, Nick and Henry and Coptic Cat to Kat Cormie for her endless patience and creativity.
Without Kat this book would be only Haunted Air

Many thanks, too, to Andria Degens for her Sequencing of the Haunted Heads. Bless you also: Ossian Brown, Geoff Cox-Dorée, Paul Jackson and Mark Logan

Printed by CPI Antony Rowe Ltd., Bumpers Farm, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 6LH, England
Notes
From Durtro web page:

Special micro-edition of Nick Blinko's novel 'The Haunted Head'

Nick Blinko, Henry Boxer and myself were so delighted by the Coptic Cat edition of 'The Haunted Head' that we have published a micro-edition of it. Each book has a postcard with an original and very haunting pen and ink drawing by Nick Blinko inserted into the book, and each book is also individually signed in pencil by Nick on the title page. The book is covered in maroon cloth, with a different skull to the earlier edition blocked on the front in black. All page edges are gilt, and the book has black head- and tail-bands and a black marker.

60 copies of the book have been printed, and 25 copies are already reserved by art collectors, art institutions and museum library collections. Durtro has just 35 of these books.
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