We may have to wait until next year for the promised new edition of Dave McKean’s brilliant Cages, but meantime there’s something rather lovely in this week’s new releases to keep McKean fans going: Pictures That Tick is a large-sized collection of Dave’s shorter comics work from the 90s and early 2000s. And as you’d expect from Dave the art styles and techniques he uses to spin his tales vary enormously in look, feel and method, which is one of the qualities in his work I’ve always admired (and the large size means you can enjoy the art). Treat yourself or else drop very heavy hints to someone close to you that a certain Yuletide season is fast approaching and this would make a person very happy were they to receive it as a gift…
(a panel from one of the short tales in Pictures That Tick by and (c) Dave McKean, published Dark Horse)
November 19th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
there is a new 14 pages by Dave in the Dylan book that just came out from Norton (it was originally French so i’m guessing this is from a year or so ago). Actually pretty good interpretation – and it’s very non linear of Dylan’s sprawling masterful ‘Desolation row’ – worth a look.