Tag Archive | "Dave McKean"

World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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December 1st is Worlds AIDS Day; it seems to have slipped down the media’s radar in the last few years, as indeed has the progress of the disease. Years of often terrifying awareness raising campaigns hammered the safe sex message into one generation (even the comics did their part, who remembers DC’s use of John [...]

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Pictures that tick

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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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 [...]

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What’s your opinion of the term ‘Graphic Novel’?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been asking questions once more, this time instead of one of his in-depth interviews he is asking one simple question to sixteen comics professionals (including Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein, David Lloyd, Bryan Talbot, Chris Staros, Dave McKean, Garen Ewing and others) “What’s your opinion of the term ‘Graphic Novel’?” [...]

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Propaganda gets caught in the Crazy Hair of Gaiman & McKean

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Crazy Hair By Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. We love Gaiman and McKean’s picture books in our house; from the very earliest age my daughter Molly has been transfixed with the incredible tales of Dads getting swapped for a pair of goldfish and wolves living in the wall of houses. They’ve been bedtime stories since she was [...]

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