Happy Birthday Dave McKean.
We looked like this in about 1987… (I am holding a Mekon Award, which we had just won for VIOLENT CASES, something that made us both incredibly happy).
and now we look a lot more like this:
Dave McKean is working on an amazing, special, limited, signed, full-colour, edition of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It will be published shortly after the normal, print-only edition. There’s more information on how to get it at http://j.mp/mckeanOcean
Before Photoshop
I miss them still…
They really were that size: paintings and assemblages that Dave would take to get photographed, and send the transparency to DC Comics to use as a cover.
From the limited edition of The Graveyard Book, designed and illustrated by Dave McKean. Some unused cover designs…
Dave McKean and me in 1988. I’m holding the Mekon Award which we had just won for VIOLENT CASES. Nearly 25 years ago.
Posted for Amanda Palmer because I’m smiling in the photo.
Dave McKean illustration for “Looking For the Girl”, in SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
The Mister Fox poem from SMOKE AND MIRRORS, “The White Road”, as depicted by Dave McKean…
Dave McKean illustration (the signing and limitation page) from the forthcoming Subterranean Press limited edition of SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
The illustrations are so beautiful…
