Dave McKean

David Tench McKean ( born December 29, 1963 in Taplow, Berkshire, England ) is a British comic book artist, graphic designer, photographer, children's book Illustrator, jazz pianist and filmmaker.

Style

Dave McKean's work includes in addition to drawings, sculptures, paintings and photographs mainly illustrations for magazines ( Playboy, The New Yorker), covers for CDs (including John Cale, Tori Amos, Michael Nyman ) and cover designs for books and comics, which most of collages made ​​, which in addition to graphical image elements and plastic material (such as beachcombing, watches, parchment, old books, etc.) are added before they are finally photographed and revised computer graphically.

Life

McKean studied between 1982 and 1986 design, illustration and film at the Berkshire College of Art And Design, where he worked for eighteen years as a teacher of Visual Art and Film after graduating.

After McKean 1986 had tried in vain to hold in New York as a comic artist walking, he met the writer Neil Gaiman. With the graphic novel Violent Cases ( 1987), a long-standing collaboration began. 1988 created the two for the DC Universe mini - series Black Orchid. In addition to his participation in the series Hellblazer ( va cover design ) and the Batman graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth McKean in 1989 became the cover design for Gaiman's successful comic book series The Sandman, which both finally to break through. During this time, McKean's drawing style was often compared to that of Bill Sienkiewicz.

Between 1990 and 1996 McKean first worked as a writer on the series Cages - an ambitious graphic novel, in their expressive drawing style can be influences of comic artists such as Alberto Breccia, José Antonio Muñoz or Lorenzo Mattotti recognize.

Further work led him back together with Neil Gaiman, with which he created in 1992 Signal To Noise and Mr. Punch. Moreover illustrated McKean Gaiman's children's and picture books The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (1998), Coraline (2002), and The Wolves in the Walls ( 2003).

After a first experience in the film business through its participation in two Harry Potter films as "conceptual artist" as well as several short films and music videos McKean turned in 2004 his first feature film MirrorMask, whose screenplay in turn comes from Neil Gaiman.

Dave McKean is also a jazz pianist, joined some jazz festivals (for example, Bracknell Jazz Festival 1986), and produced his own CDs, etc. on his own label Feral Records.

Selections

Comics & Graphic Novels

  • Hellblazer # 40 (1991 DC Comics )
  • Violent Cases (written by Neil Gaiman ) (1987 Escape Comics ) dt Violent Cases (1994 Ehapa: Feest USA)
  • Black Orchid # 1-3 (written by Neil Gaiman ) (1988 DC Comics ) dt The Black Orchid (1993 Carlsen Comics )
  • Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (written by Grant Morrison ) (1989 DC Comics ) dt Batman: Day of Fools (1990 Carlsen )
  • Signal To Noise (written by Neil Gaiman ) (1992 Victor Gollancz ) dt The Last Movie (1992 Carlsen Lux)
  • The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy Of Mr. Punch (written by Neil Gaiman ) (1994 Victor Gollancz ) dt Mr. Punch (1994 Ehapa: Feest USA)
  • Voodoo Lounge (1995 Marvel Music)
  • Cage (1990-1996 Kitchen Sink Press, 2002 NBM Publishing ) dt Cage vols 1-5 ( Carlsen 1997)
  • Pictures That Tick ( 2001)

Picture books

  • The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish (1998)
  • The Wolves in the Walls (2003 ) dt The wolves in the walls ( Carlsen 2005)

Photo Pictorials

  • A Small Book of Black and White Lies (1995 )
  • Option: Click ( 1998)

Album cover

McKean designed CD covers for

And many others;

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