dave mckean Archives

However I didn't have the chutzpah to hold my phone up filming it all. Ramon Vitral did. And thanks to him and his blog, we now have these appearances and performances at the British Library as part of the attendance record breaking Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy In The UK exhibition and series of events, from Warren Ellis,[...]

This weekend, I went to the British Library in London to see Dave McKean sing and play the piano. To most he is an artist, whose work is often associated with the comics industry His most prominent and widely seen pieces right now are the covers to Sandman Overture Others will remember the graphic novel he[...]

Ahead of the Final Order Cut-Off date of February 3rd for Sandman Overture #2, DC Comics are encouraging retailers to up their orders with the promise of metallic ink! The 1:100 variant cover by JH Williams III will have a special metallic bronze ink on the cover. While the 1:200 variant cover by Dave McKean with a[...]

The first celebrates the work of Dave McKean, celebrated artist of, amongst many other things, the covers to Sandman. Dave McKean: A Retrospective shows off work across his career in a variety of media, and will be exhibited at the Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery, in Tunbridge Wells, UK from 24th January until the end[...]

Robert Schwager writes: I’m sitting here with one of the creators of a new webcomic “Home Bound” and by ‘here with’ I actually mean nothing of the sort,

It's bigger than that. Fortunately, Dave McKean's variant cover for the issue can be placed in one of those hard cases as is and hung on the wall, floating planets, enigmatic red throne and all Thanks, Dave—I don't have to squirm on that one It should be hanging in the National Gallery in London[...]

A SONG AND DANCE WITH MCKEAN The annual London comic art festival Comica begins today with a preview of Nine Lives, Dave McKean's new project, include music played and songs sung by McKean It's all at Foyles Bookshop from 6.30pm tonight. CASE CLOSED A new way for storing and sending comic books through the mail, goes on Kickstarter. THE[...]

Over a hundred pages of rarely seen Neil Gaiman comics from the eighties, including; Neil's work with Bryan Talbot, Sloth for Seven Deadly Sins, An Honest Answer for Wiindows and From Homogenous To Honey for AARGH. Stories with Dave McKean, Julia Hollings, Mike Matthews, Peter Rigg, and Steve Gibson for Outrageous Tales Of The Old Testament. The three[...]

Knockabout Comics and graphic novel app SEQUENTIAL are publishing a digital collection of Neil Gaiman's 'lost' comic strips from the 1980s for free – and it's in aid of charity. Neil Gaiman's Lost Tales will feature collaborations with Bryan Talbot, Dave McKean and more with a rare interview conducted in the eighties, Gaiman's original typed notes for Sandman, sample[...]

So there;s all those Hallowe'en sales as well. And yes, there's a  1:100 B&W variant cover by Williams and a 1:200 B&W variant cover by Dave McKean And a digital combo pack (possibly replacing Action Comics which seems to have lost its combo pack…) No excuses on this one, I think[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon The 25th Anniversary of Sandman has brought out the likes of Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean and J.H Williams III to San Diego this year, much to the delight of the deeply ingrained groupy in a vast majority of comics fans But rather than just appearing on panels together, though they will, seeing them[...]

This is your first look at the cover of Sandman Overture, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, by Dave McKean. And your second look at a page from the series by Neil Gaiman and JH Williams. This is your first look at the cover of Sandman Overture, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, by Dave McKean. And your second[...]

And when we may see the return, in the to-be-renamed Sandman Zero. Dave McKean has been commissioned by the show to design the cover for this year's San Diego Comic Con souvenir book, which also celebrates the anniversary of… Superman 75th Avengers 50th Doctor Strange 50th Doctor Who 50th X-Men 50th ElfQuest 35th The Tick 25th Eisner Awards 25th Bongo Comics 20th Milestone Comics 20th Strangers in[...]

For the fourth (I think) time. Originally spinning out of Dave's time at Quality Communications working on Warrior, he and Garry Leach created Atomeka, to publish A1, containing the creator owned work of Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Brian Bolland, Warren Ellis, Steve Pugh, Ted McKeever, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Phil Winslade and many more, in a[...]

Dynamite Entertainment is publishing The Art of Painted Comics hardcover in October, featuring painted comic book work by the likes of  Alex Ross, Greg Hildebrandt, Frank Frazetta, Joe Jusko, Michael William Kaluta, Bill Sienkiewicz, Neal Adams, Julie Bell, Joseph Michael Linsner, Glen Orbik, Simon Bisley, Dave Dorman, Phil Noto, Greg Horn, Brian Bolland, Ashley Wood,[...]

I can't make it myself as it's my big girl's sixth birthday today, but it seems all sorts of fun. David Hine and Shaky Kane will be making a rare joint appearance together, to promote their Bulletproof Coffin series from Image, and show off bits of the sequel. Other exhibitors include he Fallen Angel Media, Angry Candy,[...]

You wait for one comics festival in London and then four come along at one. ComICA will be kicking off this year's activities on Saturday March 12th, 6-7.30 pm at Goldsmiths University in South-East London.with Italian comics creator Lorenzo Mattotti launching his new graphic novel Stigmata, translated by Fantagraphics, in the UK, along with his  illustrated[...]

Written and drawn by Dave McKean, it's a dazzling mix of narrative and artistic style that travels from the terraces to the gods I read it every year, usually with a few glasses of whisky and the fire burning Wonderful. His new book may get even more odder glances from the family[...]

Who needs clothes, food, healthcare or paying the rent? Not when there are things that need accumulating!! 1) Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's Royal Mail Mythical Creatures stamp set 2) Rian Hughes' Keep Gotham/Metropolis Tidy T-shirts 3) British War Comics collections at 45% Off Credit crunch? Recession? Depression? Nonsense, there's always money to spend on stuff Who needs[...]