A graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, film maker and musician. His style is unique and very few could take it on. I first came across his work when i met my friend Daniel Gough, hes a huge fan and his work is very inspired by him. Click here if you want to get in touch with dan through my space.
Daniel Goughs work
Dave McKean collaborates with Neil Gaiman alot of the time.
His C.D covers are:
Tori Amos,
Alice Cooper,
Testament,
My Dying Bride,
Dream Theater,
Buckethead
Counting Crows,
Michael Nyman,
Toad the Wet Sprocket,
Skinny Puppy,
Download,
Front Line Assembly,
Stabbing Westward,
Bill Bruford
Alice Cooper,
Testament,
My Dying Bride,
Dream Theater,
Buckethead
Counting Crows,
Michael Nyman,
Toad the Wet Sprocket,
Skinny Puppy,
Download,
Front Line Assembly,
Stabbing Westward,
Bill Bruford
After a trip to New York in 1986 during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories, Violent Cases, published in 1987. This was followed in 1988 by a Black Orchid miniseries (again with Gaiman) and Hellblazer covers for DC Comics. Beginning in 1989 he produced the covers for Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman, all its collected editions and many of its spin-offs, and the Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, with writer Grant Morrison (1989). His work during this period was often compared to that of Bill Sienkiewicz.
Between 1990 and 1996 McKean wrote and drew the ten issues of Cages, an ambitious graphic novel about artists and creativity, illustrated in a stripped-down pen and ink style influenced by José Antonio Muñoz and Lorenzo Mattotti. Cages was published as single volume by Kitchen Sink Press in 1998, and in a new edition by NBM Publishing in 2002.
Further collaborations with Gaiman produced the graphic novels Signal to Noise in 1992 (previously serialised in The Face magazine), about a dying filmmaker and his hypothetical last film, and Mr Punch, which explored similar themes as Violent Cases through the imagery of the Punch and Judy show.
Between 1990 and 1996 McKean wrote and drew the ten issues of Cages, an ambitious graphic novel about artists and creativity, illustrated in a stripped-down pen and ink style influenced by José Antonio Muñoz and Lorenzo Mattotti. Cages was published as single volume by Kitchen Sink Press in 1998, and in a new edition by NBM Publishing in 2002.
Further collaborations with Gaiman produced the graphic novels Signal to Noise in 1992 (previously serialised in The Face magazine), about a dying filmmaker and his hypothetical last film, and Mr Punch, which explored similar themes as Violent Cases through the imagery of the Punch and Judy show.
