English artist, illustrator and filmmaker noted for visual experimentation and collaborations with writers such as Neil Gaiman; director of MirrorMask (2005) and illustrator of books including The Homecoming.

Born 1963. Longtime collaborator with Neil Gaiman; provided distinctive illustrative work (including Sandman covers) and directed the film MirrorMask (2005).

Two DeBaser reviews present a mixed view of Dave McKean's work: MirrorMask is critiqued for screenplay and direction despite striking visuals; his illustrations for Ray Bradbury's The Homecoming are praised as majestic and hallucinatory. The material highlights McKean's visual experimentation and strong collaboration history.

For:Fans of illustration, graphic novels, experimental cinema, readers of Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradbury.

 An eclectic and visionary artist, a great experimenter of graphic techniques, and a fine illustrator (also for renowned album covers, the most famous of which is perhaps "Scenes From A Memory - etc etc" by Dream Theater), Dave McKean has helped shape and give charm to the creations of Gaiman's mind, dressing them in refined faces and clothes, offering readers pages full of poetic visionariness and elegant visual madness.

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 there are drawings by a majestic Dave McKean who translates with his crooked shadows, his hallucinatory faces, the straight lines dripping with madness, now Timothy's fears, now the mad Pavans held in the hall of the House, now spider webs forming words of denial.

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