New Releases by Dave McKean

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.

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!

A woman arrives at an apartment, but her partner can''t get away from work. She is disappointed and settles in for a night alone, but finds a film projector with a reel of film loaded. The film is scratched and blurry but she can make out a couple making love. Bringing to bear the astonishing range of illustrative and storytelling skills that have served him so well on his collaborations with Neil Gaiman and solo projects like the recently re-released epic graphic novel Cages (Dark Horse, 2010), Dave McKean forges into new territory with this unique work of erotica.

¡SOLO PARA ADULTOS! EL ILUSTRADOR DE SANDMAN, CORALINE Y MR. PUNCH SE DESCUBRE CON ESTA CREATIVA MEZCLA DE ILUSTRACIÓN, FOTOGRAFÍA, COLLAGE Y PINTURA Dave McKean, ilustrador de libros y cómics, y también cineasta, se pasa a la novela gráfica erótica con esta amalgama de estampas carnales. La variedad de temas y el uso de diferentes técnicas artísticas recuerdan a sus ilustraciones que dieron color a las portadas y páginas interiores de Sandman durante casi 10 años, y que han hecho de él uno de los creadores más versátiles de la actualidad.

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.

Winner of the Newbery Medal. When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod''s life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?

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Drawings made in Vienna, 30th Dec. 2005 - 6th Jan. 2006.

An oversized, lavishly produced book, The Alchemy of MirrorMask takes readers inside the making of the feature film and allows them to experience the creative process. Animated by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman, MirrorMask combines animation and live action with a compelling storyline to take the cinematic experience to a stunning new level. MirrorMask is the story of Helena, a fifteen-year-old girl who works for her family''s circus. She juggles, sells popcorn, and longs to run away and join the "real world." Helena also dreams, and one day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new world populated by mysterious creatures…a dream world where she embarks on an amazing journey. Each chapter in The Alchemy of MirrorMask begins with an introduction by McKean and Gaiman and then guides readers through the different types of visuals used to create the film, including sketches, paintings, storyboards, 3-d models, photographs, texture maps, frame blow-ups, and more. Also included are photos taken on the set and during McKean''s travels to Venice, Prague, Trieste, Warsaw, and other places that provided inspiration for MirrorMask. Gaiman and McKean''s insightful commentary sheds light on the film''s journey from concept to screen. Gaiman and McKean fans, cinema buffs, and visual art enthusiasts will all delight in The Alchemy of MirrorMask, a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the making of an extraordinary film.

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.