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Judges include graphic novelists Dave McKean, Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph, Ricky Boleto, Joseph Coelho, Sophie Dahl, Jess French, S F Said, Nadia Shireen,  Jeffrey Boakye, Bobby Seagull, Lucy Bannerman, Sally Hamerton, Lizzie Huxley-Jones and Amanda J Brettargh. The Week is a weekly news magazine founded in 1995 by Jolyon Connell Dennis Publishing, founded by Felix Dennis,[...]

Announced at London Book Fair 2024, publishers Hamish Hamilton has signed a graphic novel project with bestselling nature writer Robert Macfarlane, actor-musician Johnny Flynn and movie director, photographer, comic book creator, graphic designer, and publisher Dave McKean to retell the Epic Of Gilgamesh to be published in the spring of 2027. Dave McKean, Robert MacFarlane & Johnny[...]

It is meant to include the artists whose work was used to develop Midjourney's AI art offering. They include comic book creators such as Tim Bradstreet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Spiegelman, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Watterson, Bill Willingham, Ben Templesmith, Adi Granov, Al Davidson, Alex Toth, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Suydam, Scott McCloud, Ryan North, Mort Drucker,[...]

Her debut book, a collection of short stories called Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't, is published later this May, and she will be touring the UK to promote it on her "Long Book Tour". Also announced as attending the event are Charlie Adlard, Mehdi Annassi, aka Machima, Peter Hogan, Lucie[...]

And while a European convention, it is also aimed at Japan, the UK and the USA, with English spoken through the show. Bleeding Cool has been given an exclusive first look at the full creator list for the Lake Como show. Joining previously announced creators at Lake Como will be a host of new and returning guests,[...]

And now in March, it will host the long-awaited return of Comica, The London Comics Festival in association with VIP Brands Ltd and The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, a series of panels running in the evening through the month, with everyone from Armando Iannucci to Posy Simmonds, from Brian Bolland to Iain Sinclair, Dave[...]

Violent Cases by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean This has to be the big one, the first graphic novel work by the pair, and originally published in black-and-white by Man At The Crossroads Paul Gravett, of Escape Comics in 1987 It went to at least three prints at Escape, before being published in colour by Titan[...]

and in one picture, an actual place. Mark Brooks does have the Mamma Mia Pierce Brosnan image common to the programme. Dave McKean has had his artwork incorporated well for his Midjourney look. But Jamie Hewlett has it even better. George Perez includes his decades in the mix. Reggie Hudlin scans a mix of attitudes and associations. Kelly Sue DeConnick is[...]

At the Lake Como Comic Art Festival, art earlier this year I bought a Wolves In The Wall original page from Dave McKean, It was from the Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman kids book that, many years ago, I read to my now-far-too-old teenage daughters The youngest has just started watching Sandman – and reading[...]

The main comic book credit is "Based on DC Comic The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg" with the final credits by Sandman cover artist Dave McKean This included the majority of the initial characters in Sandma .But how about the individual episodes? And for what are they credited? Neil Gaiman just tweeted[...]

One item unavailable, bu will be auctioned by the show at a later date is a Druuna piece pencilled by her creator Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri and inked by Frank Cho, and intended to be one of a number of collaborative pieces by European and American artists auctioned by the show going forward. And here are all[...]

Coming out of Lake Como Comic Art Festival is the news that Dave McKean, of Sandman, Mirrormask, Cages, and Neverwhere fame, is working on the new revived, remake Caligula movie. Caligula was a 1979 movie starring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, and John Gielgud An attempt by Bob Guccione, founder[...]

Mike Mayhew, Dave McKean, Tomeu Morey, Zu Orzu, Casey Parsons, Sean Phillips, Sara Pichelli, Mark Raats, Bruno Redondo, Esad Ribic, Vincenzo Riccardi, Dike Ruan, Daniel Sampere, Matteo Scalera Serpieri, Arantza Sestayo Liam Sharp Olivier Vatine, Kent Williams, with the likes of CB Cebulski going as an attendee. If you are lucky to be going as well,[...]

ComicConnect has a couple of original art pages by Dave McKean, part of Neil Gaiman's projects, his most common collaborator, as part of ComicConnects' Original Artwork Auction today The star will have to be the cover to Miracleman #20 and a page from their graphic novel, Mister Punch Expect these to go for quite a[...]

Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean began their comic book careers together with Violent Cases in 1987 which piqued the interest of DC editor Karen Berger who got them to pitch on a Black Orchid graphic novel after seeing a handful of pages It would lead to the existence of Sandman for which McKean would do[...]

Having previously released six volumes with artists Rebekka Dunlap, Brecht Evens, Dave McKean, Paul Pope, Yuko Shimizu, and Bill Sienkiewicz, Beehive Books is returning to Kickstarter with a new campaign to crowdfund three new volumes of Illuminated Editions, the company's line of book art editions of literary classics. Beehive Books' Illuminated Editions also features original essays[...]

Oregon-based comics publisher Dark Horse Comics announced Raptor: A Sokol Graphic Novel, a new original graphic novel from superstar artist Dave McKean, due out July 7, 2021 The OGN, Raptor: A Sokol Graphic Novel, isn't McKean's first rodeo with Dark Horse Dark Horse previously published a lot of Dave McKean's catalog, including Black Dog: The[...]

Tomorrow, Dave McKean and Jorge González will be talking about an upcoming collaboration between the pair Huberty & Breyne art gallery in Paris and Brussels is hosting a Facebook Live event between the two, at 6pm European time. Dave McKean is a World Fantasy Award-winning comic book creator, illustrator and filmmaker Best known for the comic[...]

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A press release from the publisher announces Dave McKean: Short Films HC, a hardcover that comes with a Blu-Ray featuring, as the title implies, all of McKean's short films, along with "photos, posters, stills, drawings, and more A must-have for McKean fans!" The press release elaborates: Best known for his work with Neil Gaiman and his Harvey[...]

The 45 minutes that was shown included interviews with 21 people – Mark Buckingham, Jon Schepp, Bill Sienkiewicz, Grant Morrison, Jim Mahfood, Jason Shawn Alexander, Denys Cowan, David Mack, Frank Quitely, Dave McKean, Dave Crosland, Neil Gaiman, Matt Kennedy, Kevin Smith, Megan Hutchinson, Bob Schreck, Barron Storey, Jensine Eckwall, Tara McPherson, Satine Phoenix, and Kurt[...]

 Even as celebrated as Gaiman and Dave McKean have been as collaborators since the publication of Violent Cases in 1987, I'm still always amazed when I see new work — they seem to tap into our collective unconsciousness in the same way. This edition of American Gods is available from The Folio Society.   [...]

It is one of my favourite comic books of all time. Originally published by Tundra, it famously cost more to print than it did to buy and the more

Dave McKean, graphic novelist, musician, writer, designer and performance artist, will be debuting his latest project in March. Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash is a new graphic novel and multimedia performance that explores the work of Paul Nash, one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century, and whose First World War experiences inspired him to[...]

It's not part of the Local Comic Shop Day events after Black Friday, DC Comics have restricted themselves to a Dave Johnson exclusive Dark Knight III cover for that promotion. But just in time for that date, comes a second edition of the Sandman: Overture deluxe collection exclusive to comic stores, and featuring an original new dust jacket[...]

Williams III, colors by Dave Stewart, letters by Todd Klein, and variant covers by Dave McKean It was certainly likely that Sandman: Overture would make many of the best-of lists of 2014, given the sheer professional virtuosity of the comics creators on the creative team, however, it was far from a foregone conclusion that the comic[...]

I ended up painting and collaging right on top of the portraits.  Most of my fine art work and exhibits in the last couple years has been quick brush and ink drawings of figures from life (two gallery shows of my work with Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, and one with Clive Barker and Dave[...]

Dave McKean has changed the way we see comics, filmmaking, and multi-media projects with his unique personal vision of storytelling, and continues to do so, challenging the prevailing assumption that comics, for one, should mainly be comprised of drawing, inking, and coloring His haunting covers for Sandman, as well as his new covers for Sandman:[...]

Jason Shawn Alexander, Dave McKean, Kent Williams, David Mack, Bill Sienkiewicz, Grant Morrison, Stephanie Inagaki, Barron Storey, and Ryan Graff were some of the guests The project has just launched its Kickstarter, and showing a trailer in the panel, we heard some of the questions posed by the documentary, like seeing art, asking "How does[...]

Svensson writes for Bleeding Cool with the refreshing power of Gatorade. Dave McKean had a spotlight panel at Comic Con, where he showed off many old projects and one new one. McKean introduced his manager/partner Allan Spiegel as his therapist, calling these yearly panels his series of therapy sessions, where he could "talk over some of his[...]