Chapter 34: Milk of London

Like a candy shop of provocative colors, lavish fabrics and lashings of dementia, Dan Macmillan’s brainchild, Zoltar The Magnificent, represents the twisted future of Britain’s once-sheltered youth, now that the seams of respectability have begun to stretch. Like heralds announcing the fall of an empire, or perhaps the dawning of a new one, Zoltar are merchants of inescapable change. Decadent, depraved, glamorous and absurd, be warned: you might like what you see.

Taking their mysterious name from a pagan god of the bacchanal, an animatronic soothsayer and the Hounds of Hades, Zoltar are an enigma, perverting the relationship between commerce and fine art, while reveling in a world populated by post-War children’s comics, gangland violence, voodoo mysticism and Victorian taxidermy. Macmillan and friends simultaneously indulge and undermine the London status quo, with a pat on the head and a punch to the gut.

Frank151 joined Zoltar the Magnificent in the creation of a grand spectacle spanning the ancient and the futuristic, the idyllic and the appalling, the privileged and the impoverished, all staged on the streets they hail from: London Town.