Derek Pell
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Derek Pell is a visual artist, photographer, writer and satirist. He was the editor in chief of Zoom Street Magazine. He was editor of DingBat Magazine for 12 years, and a contributing editor to PC Laptop. Under both his name and his pen names, most notably Norman Conquest. Derek Pell has authored more than 30 books, many of which he designed and illustrated, including the Doktor Bey series, Bewildering Beasties, Assassination Rhapsody, Lost In Translation, and The Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion, along with several collections of his work.
Derek Pell is a visual artist, photographer, writer and satirist. He was the editor in chief of Zoom Street Magazine. He was editor of DingBat Magazine for 12 years, and a contributing editor to PC Laptop. Under both his name and his pen names, most notably Norman Conquest. Derek Pell has authored more than 30 books, many of which he designed and illustrated, including the Doktor Bey series, Bewildering Beasties, Assassination Rhapsody, Lost In Translation, and The Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion, along with several collections of his work.
Doktor Bey
Bey is a fictional scholar, born in New York City and Tibet in 18771. Author of Doktor Bey's Suicide Guide (1977), Doktor Bey's Bedside Bedbug Book (1978), Doktor Bey's Handbook of Strange Sex (1978), Doktor Bey's Book of Brats (19791), Doktor Bey's Book of the Dead (Jan. 1981).}
Norman Conquest
This is Derek Pell's visual and performance focused alter-ego and digital artist. Norman's art is featured in texts by authors such as Harold Jaffe's Straight Razor (1995), as well as his own work, Sartre's French Phrase Book (1974); Interiors: A Book of Very Clean Rooms (1985); Extremely Weird Republicans (1994); A Beginner's Guide to Art Deconstruction (1995); The Neglected Works of Norman Conquest (2012); What is Art? (2012); Rear Windows: An Inside Look at Fifty Film Noir Classics (2014); Corn on Macabre & Other Conundrums (2016); Smells Like Teen 'Pataphysics (Jan. 2020)} In 1989, he founded the international anti-censorship art collective Beuyscouts of Amerika. He has created mixed-media works, book-objects, multiples, and collage works and has been featured in the Spencer Museum of Art. Several of his multiples are part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. Conquest is currently Editor & Publisher of Black Scat Books.
Che Wax
One of Pell's earliest fictional pseudonyms, which appeared on the novel Brother Spencer Goes to Hell published by The Fault (Union City, CA: 1979).
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