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Art: Dave McKean exhibition at Rye Art Gallery

Monday, September 3, 2012

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Artist, photographer, film-maker, comics creator and more – yep, if you are in the area then I think you really should pay a visit to the Rye Art Gallery (107 High Street, Rye, East Sussex) to check out Blue Tree, an exhibition by the multi-talented Dave McKean, opening on September 8th and running until October [...]

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Doctor Dave

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Dave McKean dons his professorial robes to join the staff at the new Hogwarts! Okay, only kidding – in fact Dave (one of my absolute favourite artists in any medium) is seen here in academic gown (sadly he’s already removed the rather nifty hat that goes with it) after receiving an honorary doctorate from the [...]

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Moore, O’Neill at old Gosh, Dave McKean at new Gosh!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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One of London’s landmark quality comics stores is moving – Gosh Comics is finally leaving their home in Great Russell Street after a quarter of a century to shiny new premises in Soho. The old store will have a cracking send off though, with Messrs Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill signing the new League of [...]

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Gaiman and McKean get musical

Saturday, December 25, 2010

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The Sky at Night – no, it isn’t a video of Sir Patrick Moore talking astronomical bodies, it’s a musical collaboration between friends and regular collaborators Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman:

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Bart Beaty on Hypercomics and Dave McKean

Saturday, October 9, 2010

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Over on The Comics Reporter Bart Beaty has the best write up I’ve seen of the Hypercomics exhibit – and specifically Dave McKean’s “The Rut”. It starts thus: “I hate to be telling you this now, but if you weren’t in London recently there is a very good chance that you missed the best comic of [...]

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Opening the Cages – Pádraig talks with Dave McKean

Friday, October 8, 2010

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Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to another of Blighty’s top creators – comics artist, illustrator, animator, photographer, film maker, Dave McKean‘s endlessly fascinating visuals have crossed media to create some wonderful (and oft-imitated) images from Violent Cases and the beautiful Signal to Noise to MirrorMask and even some wonderful art for Heston Blumenthal’s cookery book. He [...]

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Slog’s Dad – another darkly uplifting children’s book from Almond and McKean

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Slog’s Dad By David Almond and Dave McKean Walker Books Slog’s a boy who believes in life after death, and he believes with all his heart. His dad died, cruelly and horribly, after a vibrant life as a binman was cut short when first one leg, then the other was taken, until there’s nothing but disease left, [...]

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Going wild for The Savage…

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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The Savage By David Almond and Dave McKean Walker Books Complete timely coincidence here. A week ago Molly and I pick out The Savage from our local library. This week a copy of David Almond and Dave McKean’s latest; Slog’s Dad drops through the letterbox. Figured we’d start with The Savage and see where we [...]

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Dave McKean at Offset

Monday, August 16, 2010

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The Offset folks have uploaded a good, long video of Dave McKean’s appearance at the 2009 festival: Dave McKean – OFFSET 2009 from OFFSET on Vimeo.

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Opening this week: HyperComics

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Opening this week in Pump House Gallery in London’s Battersea Park is the Hypercomics exhibition, featuring work from Dave McKean, Adam Dant, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Warren Pleece, curated by Paul Gravett. Unlike a traditional, linear narrative followed straight, page to page, the idea here is that, like hypertext (or Hypercard for those of us [...]

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