Post-war Work
Bentley had enrolled as an auxiliary fireman in 1938 and served in the London Fire Brigade during World War II. He illustrated How to be an Alien (1946) by George Mikes.
After the war he took a few regular cartooning jobs including on Time and Tide (1952–54) and drawing pocket cartoons for the Daily Mail from 1958. He gave this job up in 1962, complaining that it put too much strain on him. In later life he was the illustrator for Auberon Waugh's Diary in Private Eye and contributed other cartoons to the magazine.
He moved to Downhead, near Shepton Mallet in Somerset. He died on 14 August 1978 in the Royal United Hospital, Bath, Somerset.
His autobiography, A Version of the Truth, was published in 1960. On his death, Auberon Waugh wrote in Private Eye: "Nick was a gentle, modest, humorous man, with none of the usual characteristics of the highly individual genius which inspired his quiet professionalism and supreme technical ability."
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