Tobias Tak

(25 January 1954 - 7 January 2020, The Netherlands) Tobias Tak was one of those Dutch artists who operated largely out of the spotlights of his home country. Based in London, Tak contributed his surreal and fairy tale comics with characters like the wizard Gaboon and Zizmo the cat to international anthologies and alternative comix papers, both from the USA and the UK. Several of these stories were collected in the States in the books 'Upside Down' (Top Shelf, 2003) and 'Gaboon's Daymare' (Alternative Press, 2011). Tak also earned praise for his graphic interpretations of Federico García Lorca's poetry, collected in the Netherlands in the book 'Canciones' (Scratch, 2017). His final project was the 'Gaboon' graphic novel 'De Droommaker ('The Dream Maker'), published posthumously by Concerto Books in 2022.