Most Popular Books by Dave McKean

Dark Horse Books proudly presents this two-volume hardcover artbook collection showcasing the work of the legendary artist Dave McKean, who has created some of the most iconic images in modern comics, literature, film, and music. Featuring his visually-stunning work from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Mirrormask, Arkham Asylum, Cages, Black Dog, Raptor, and so much more, as well as artwork featured in prose publications, film, music, and never-before-seen bonus material with commentary by Dave McKean. This deluxe two-volume set is collected into a gorgeous slipcase featuring original artwork by McKean, also including a satin ribbon marker in each volume, and a foreword by David Boyd Haycock.

Filled with complex characters, intriguing flights of fancy and all the beautiful visuals you''d expect from the director of MirrorMask (Sony, 2005), Cages is McKean''s magnum opus. It chronicles the intersecting lives of a painter, a writer and a musician living in the same apartment building, and is a profound rumination on art, God, cats and the cages we build for ourselves.

15 years ago, this enigmatic graphic novel performed its mental autopsy on Batman and his enemies, and in doing so set both its creators on the road to greatness. In Gotham City''s home for the criminally insane, Batman confronts his arch-nemeses, including the Joker, Two-Face and more. Before the battle is over, Batman''s mental straight-jacket will have been torn apart, exposing his every weakness and bringing him far closer to his foes than he could ever possibly have wanted! To celebrate this illustrious anniversary, Arkham Asylum has been re-launched in this sumptuous paperback that includes Morrison''s complete script, original thumbnail breakdowns, samples of how the story and art came together, and much more!

Best known for his work with Neil Gaiman and his Harvey award-winning graphic novel Cages, comes this Blu-ray collection of Dave McKean''s surreal short films collected in a behind the scenes 9 x 12 hardcover book! Dave McKean''s short cinema on Blu-ray included in a hardcover book featuring photos, posters, stills, drawings, and more. A must-have for McKean fans! "Dave demands his characters agonize over the meaning of life but he forces us to take the roller-coaster ride as well . . . right to the heart of the creative process--his words and drawings cascading across the page in perfectly structured cacophony. Beautiful!"--Terry Gilliam Blu-Ray includes the following short films and documentaries from Dave McKean: Week Before - 23mins - Insipired by the music of Django Reinhardt, story about two neighbors, God, and The Devil. Neon - 27mins - This film is narrated by Velvet Underground founder John Cale and was first prize winner at Clermont-Ferrand (one of most prestigous short film festivals in the world). Whack! - 14mins - Based on Mr. Punch graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. Displacements - 14mins - A combination of three short films featuring Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, and Ed Dorn. Dawn - 9mins - Filmed after McKeans''s work on the movie Mirrormask, this short film is based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Pictures that Tick, and was accepted into Clermont-Ferrand Festival Iain Ballamy & Stian Carstensen - 3 1/2 minutes - A video short of jazz musicians Iain Ballamy & Stian Carstensen. Sonnet No. 138 - 1min - An animated version of one of Shakespeare''s sonnets as part of a large project to turn all of them into short films, the project was canceled and all that remains is this short film. MTV-9/11 Reason - 1min - Reason was created to play on Sept. 11th 2002, a year after the terrorist attack in New York in 2001. McKean made this image as a illustration for a memorial book published by Dark Horse, and turned it into a film shortly after. MTV-World Aids Day - 1min - McKean''s short film for MTV on World Aids Day. Visitors - 15mins - Created to be a video shown during live performances for the band Food, this film was shot at the Pacific coastline at Pebble Beach, Point Lobos, Big Sur, Pacific Grove, and at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. A short film for Adobe - 4mins - Short film to cover the making of an image, which was the cover of The Particle Tarot. Signal to Noise - 4mins - Based of his own Graphic Novel Signal to Noise. RAINDANCE 7 - 1min - Trailer/Advert for the Raindance Film Festival. KODAK: TAKE PICTURES FURTHER - 40Mins - Commissioned by Kodak to launch a new film stock, and consisted of a lavish book, featuring several photographer/ artists, and accompanying ''making of'' films for each contributor. BUCKETHEAD -THE BALLAD OF BUCKETHEAD - 4.5 mins - Daves ode to the musician Buckethead Izzy - 3.5 Mins - Film dedicated to opera singer Izzy, featured on MTV''s Classical Channel. Lowcraft - 1 minute - A music video made for the band Lowcraft, inspired by the artist Lorenzo Mattotti. The Old Monkey - 4 minutes - A performance by McKean of a song he wrote for jazz composer Iain Ballamy and poet Matthew Sweeney. 9 Lives: Sheepdip, Johnson and Dupree; 9 Lives: The Cathedral of Trees - 4 minutes - Two short films from a show by McKean called Nine Lives.

New edition with bonus material by Dave McKean! Dark Horse proudly presents a new, second edition, of the graphic novel by legendary artist Dave McKean, based on the life of Paul Nash, a surrealist painter during World War 1. The Dreams of Paul Nash deals with real soldier''s memoirs and all the stories add up to a moving piece about how war and extreme situations change us, how we deal with that pain, and, in Nash''s case, how he responded by turning his landscapes into powerful and fantastical psychoscapes. The second edition of Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash features a new cover by Dave McKean, along with 15 pages of new bonus material examining the creation of the book.

Ten authors have created a series of narratives, each inspired by one of McKean''s paintings.

A visual tour-de-force graphic novel from artist and writer Dave McKean (Black Dog, The Sandman). The Raptor, Sokol, flickers between two worlds: a feudal fantastical landscape where he must hunt prey to survive, and Wales in the late 1800s where a writer of supernatural tales mourns the passing of his young wife. He exists between two states, the human and the hawk. He lives in the twilight between truth and lies, life and death, reality and the imagination. World Fantasy, Harvey, British Science Fiction Association, and V+A Book Award winner Dave McKean''s first creator-owned character is a wandering spirit for our times.

15 years ago, this enigmatic graphic novel performed its mental autopsy on Batman and his enemies, and in doing so set both its creators on the road to greatness. In Gotham City''s home for the criminally insane, Batman confronts his arch-nemeses, including the Joker, Two-Face and more. Before the battle is over, Batman''s mental straight-jacket will have been torn apart, exposing his every weakness and bringing him far closer to his foes than he could ever possibly have wanted! To celebrate this illustrious anniversary, Arkham Asylum has been re-launched in this sumptuous hardback that includes Morrison''s complete script, original thumbnail breakdowns, samples of how the story and art came together, and much more!

Nel 1920, in seguito alla morte della madre malata, il brillante psicologo Amadeus Arkham inizia a trasformare la casa di famiglia in un ospedale per le persone affette da problemi mentali. Molto tempo dopo, l’Ospedale Psichiatrico Giudiziario Arkham è un luogo di corridoi tetri e di ombre soffocanti – un enigma oscuro di pietra e legno che è meglio lasciare irrisolto. Tra le sue mura claustrofobiche, i folli e sfigurati nemici di Batman rimuginano all’interno di celle dalle pareti imbottite e stanze buie, sognando il giorno in cui si ribelleranno e rovesceranno il mondo della ragione. Quel giorno è finalmente arrivato. È il primo di aprile, e i folli abitanti dell’ospedale hanno preso il controllo della struttura. Capitanati da Joker, i detenuti di Arkham hanno inviato un terribile ultimatum all’uomo responsabile della loro prigionia. Batman deve scendere all’interno di questo cuore di tenebra, combattere i suoi nemici più letali e affrontare la verità sulla sua identità divisa – o condannerà sé stesso all’identico fato dei suoi avversari. Arkham Asylum è un capolavoro DC scritto dal leggendario Grant Morrison e dipinto meravigliosamente da Dave McKean, una storia senza tempo con protagonista il Cavaliere Oscuro. [VOLUME UNICO. CONTIENE BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM]

Violent Cases reveals the often murky nexus between memory and imagination through the narrator''s cloudy childhood remembrance of a visit to Al Capone''s osteopath and the impact of his seedy stories on an impressionable youth.

LE VITE DI BLACK ORCHID! Nella fredda stanza di un enorme edificio, Susan Linden viene colpita a morte. Il suo corpo è arso dalle fiamme e il suo assassino riesce a farla franca. Questa giovane donna tuttavia è destinata a tornare in vita e sta per iniziare un dolorosissimo viaggio alla ricerca di se stessa. Chi è davvero? Qual è il suo passato? Per lei sarà ancora possibile mettere le sue capacità al servizio degli altri? Il formidabile team creativo composto da Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Stardust) e Dave McKean (Batman: Arkham Asylum) è pronto a raccontarci l’emozionante epopea di Black Orchid, un’eroina che in realtà è un ibrido fra un essere umano e una pianta e dovrà compiere delle scelte difficili per vendicare la sua morte. Pubblicato nel 1988, il fumetto Black Orchid segnò il debutto di Gaiman alla DC Comics e contribuì a ridefinire i confini del fumetto supereroistico. [VOLUME UNICO. CONTIENE BLACK ORCHID (1988) 1-3]

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, an ingenious and captivating reimagining of Rudyard Kipling''s adventure The Jungle Book that is a glorious meditation on love, loss, survival, sacrifice, and what it means to truly be alive―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would have been completely normal if he didn''t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod''s family. . . By turns macabre, uplifting, sinister, and heartwarming, Neil Gaiman''s #1 national bestseller is an ingenious reimagining of Rudyard Kipling''s classic adventure The Jungle Book. Called a "novel of wonder . . . a tale of unforgettable enchantment" by the New York Times Book Review, The Graveyard Book has captivated readers of all ages with its timeless meditation on love, loss, survival, and sacrifice . . . and what it means to truly be alive.

A father and child discover the joys of his crazy hair in this brilliant picture book. Bonnie tries to tame her father''s hair, but to no avail, as birds and beasts of every type jostle for space amongst the curls and tresses of this hirsute book. A warm and funny conversational text combine beautifully with Dave McKean''s edgy and dramatic illustrations to make this another perfect picture book by Gaiman and McKean.

After trading his father for two goldfish, a boy and his little sister go on a rollicking adventure around town to get him back.

In the wake of Neil Gaiman''s extraordinary, multi-award winning Sandman saga comes a sumptuous volume collecting all of artist Dave McKean''s stunning and innovative Sandman cover paintings. and colours elevated the Sandman covers to ''gallery'' status. meant to be seen, unadorned by logos, in a fine art book format that''s truly the stuff dreams are made of.

"Assembled here for the first time, without any adornment or distraction, are the stunning cover images created by artist Dave McKean for The Sandman...an impressive body of work that covers the entirety of The Sandman series and beyond, this collection displays an impressive gallery of striking images created using a combination of painting, photography, sculpture and computer manipulation. This book also features an all-new eight-page Sandman story and commentary on the covers from McKean and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman"--Back cover.

Jerk, California

Neil Gaiman tells the story of the one day every hundred years when Death, older sister of The Sandman, walks among humans to gain a better understanding of them.