New Releases by Dave McKean

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]

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Échos Graphiques est un recueil de récits courts datant des années 1990 et du début des années 2000. Iconoclaste, McKean y mêle illustrations, peintures, collages, sculptures, photographies et dessins digitaux pour une expérience de lecture unique en son genre. Tour à tour poignantes, drôles ou absurdes, ces histoires sont toutes superbes et envoûtantes et repoussent les limites d''un genre.

Charnel, sensuel, brutal, tendre, obsessionnel, solitaire, soft... Le sexe recouvre une gamme infinie de premières fois. En voici dix exemples : Première fois, Sex Shop, Fantasme, 1+1, 2+1, Nulle, Club, Soumission, Sodomie et X-rated. Dix récits aussi courts que brûlants.

Il a peint l’horreur pour s’en défaire Peintre surréaliste de la première moitié du XXe siècle, Paul Nash a vécu l’atrocité des tranchées de la Première guerre mondiale. Les cicatrices de cette épreuve ont marqué son œuvre à tout jamais. Auteur de bande dessinée, Dave McKean décide de lui rendre hommage à travers cette biographie fantasmée. Entre réalité et illusion, il explore la fièvre créatrice de l’artiste en se projetant dans ses rêves, hantés par l’image perpétuelle d’un chien noir. Ni malveillant, ni bénin, ce spectre agit comme un présage, un messager, un ennemi... puis un ami. Grâce à la puissance d’évocation de son dessin, McKean parvient à transmettre, à l’image de l’œuvre du peintre qu’il raconte, les effets dévastateurs et les traumatismes profonds légués par la guerre. Il nous offre une plongée cathartique dans les replis de l’âme déchirante d’un artiste déchiré. Conçue à l’origine comme un projet multimédia en lien avec les commémoration de la Grande Guerre, cette œuvre majeure est indispensable dans la (re)lecture actuelle des évènements de 14/18.

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

Découvert avec le roman graphique Violent Cases, loué après le mythique Arkham Asylum de Grant Morrison, et encensé pour son travail effectué sur la saga Sandman, Dave McKean fait aujourd''hui partie des artistes incontournables ayant réussi à imposer son style anticonformiste et extravagant à l''univers du comics. Appuyé par les commentaires de son fidèle partenaire Neil Gaiman, ce panorama exhaustif revient sur l''ensemble de la production de l''artiste réalisée autour de Sandman, et plus encore ! Un incontournable pour tout fan qui se respecte.

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.

THE COLLECTED DREAMING COVERS presents Dave McKean''s astounding cover art from THE SANDMAN''s companion series, THE DREAMING, plus THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE, THE SANDMAN COMPANION and more - along with a brand-new story Written by Neil Gaiman that features an appearance by The Sandman!

Dave McKean''s Pictures That Tick Volume 2 illuminates the artistic prowess of this acclaimed storyteller! McKean uses mixed media to take readers on a journey unlike any other: "The Coast Road" follows a desperate wife trying to find her missing husband, whose ghostly image appears in unexpected ways. "Black Holes," written by an anonymous journalist, concerns the politically sensitive true story of Chinese villagers induced by the government to sell their blood, only to be infected with AIDS through poor medical practice. Tales of sadness and humor, insightful travelogues, and diary entries fill the pages of McKean''s latest masterful achievement. Winner of the Victoria and Albert Museum Illustrated Book of the Year award!

"An amazing collection of dark and arresting imagery, DREAM STATES: THE COLLECTED DREAMING COVERS presents the haunting artwork of this critically acclaimed and award-winning epic. Through these dynamic pieces, Dave McKean reflected the mesmerizing mythology, adult nature, and imaginative storytelling that made the story of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, such a groundbreaking series. This collection also includes insightful and revealing cover commentaries by THE SANDMAN author Neil Gaiman"--

Une femme arrive dans un appartement, lieu de rendez-vous avec son amant, mais celui-ci ne la rejoint pas. Seule, elle se délasse, puis découvre un vieux projecteur chargée d’une bobine qu’elle commence à visionner, celle d’un film érotique qui tourne, brûle, s’enflamme jusqu’à révéler une porte cachée. Une porte donnant sur un passage énigmatique qui conduira la nouvelle venue vers une suite de rencontres inattendues, oniriques et fantasmatiques.