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Dave McKean
2 years
This prop came to my place for a few days last year. This had to be done.
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5 years
A sketch of Corto Maltese for Svendborg exhibition, always loved Hugo Pratt's line.
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4 years
Found while sorting through old paperwork today - the original rough for Sandman 1, I think the last rough I did for DC.
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4 years
The Endless, a drawing swap with an art dealer friend.
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3 years
A short circular comic for the NY Times centenary editorial on Dostoevsky. @nytimes
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3 years
A few portrait drawings for Iain Sinclair's Fifty Saints.
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2 years
A few weeks ago having digested the implications of image creation AI, I decided I could either retire or respond. Here's my response; a 96-page book of graphic shorts stories created in 12 days. Available at the end of July.
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6 years
Hi everyone - DC are remastering Batman: Arkham Asylum, and I'm trying to track down as many original pages as possible to rescan. If you own a page, or know anyone who does, can you leave a message here please? Thanks, Dave.
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5 years
Cover for a new little travel sketch book, inspired by trips to Prague.
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4 years
A hand drawn and lettered poster for The Cabinet of Cr. Caligari - heading to a cinema themed exhibition in Brussels.
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7 years
Gorgeous edition of my two covers books in one volume on much better paper than DC editions. In French from Urban.
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5 years
Hi all - I've posted all the pages from my new little book here since it won't be a physical thing for a while. Stay well, distant and soapy #StaySafeStayHome
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Dave McKean
4 years
KAFKA'S PENCIL exhibition of drawings, paintings and photographs opens tomorrow at Huberty Breyne Gallery in Brussels. Email for price list.
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5 years
A portrait of Dostoyevsky for the Beehive edition of Crime and Punishment.
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3 years
Farewell to my old friend Rolie Green, who took me along to comic marts when I was a kid, and posed for reference shots of the director for Signal to Noise.
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3 years
Marcel Duchamp drawing for Fifty Saints.
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5 years
Back cover for Raptor, a new graphic novel for Dark Horse out next year.
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5 years
Current huge book project I'm working on in my lunch breaks has involved revisiting my old art school work.
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4 years
Happy new year from Sokół and me.
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4 years
Poster for Un Chien Andalou, a one off poster print for exhibition in Brussels.
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5 years
A painting for Crime and Punishment book project, one of ten, plus well over 50 drawings.
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2 years
Just coming to the end of a crazy amount of work, on a crazy deadline, for Heston Blumenthal's new recipe book. Dragon included for decoration only.
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A drawing from my ongoing silent film project Nitrate.
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3 years
Stack of drawings piling up for this new illustrated book.
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3 years
The first of five collaged saints for Iain Sinclair's new short work for Tangerine Press, Fifty Saints. @TangerinePress
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2 years
Aelita: a little painting from my ongoing Nitrate series.
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4 years
A tiny bauble of joy and a mince pie crumb of good cheer, goodbye 2020 you mad old year, you.
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2 years
Poster for upcoming show at Adam's Gallery in Reigate.
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5 years
First Italian edition of Doré's illustrated Divine Comedy, found in a flea market in Bari.
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4 years
Case illustration for Brian Catling's Munky.
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Dave McKean
9 years
It is drawn from a photo of Bowie. A hugely inspiring and influential earthling.
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9 years
Here's another image that reminds me of David Bowie @neilhimself 's Lucifer by @DaveMcKean #seasonofmists
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3 years
I have copies of Raptor! And no, I'm not holding the hardback closer to the camera. @DarkHorseComics
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4 years
Recent photographs coming in handy for new illustrated book project.
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5 years
Old jobs: Found a job bag full of old corporate work from 1986-9, before Violent Cases, some of it done through my ex-art teacher's studio Splash of Paint.
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4 years
Also found in today's old paperwork, my original third draft script of Mr. Punch, including all my thumbnail workings out on the pages.
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Photos from DC's art department proving this book does exist!
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5 years
Drawing the poster for my upcoming exhibition in Paris called 'C is for...' Drawings and pages from Cages, Celluloid and new book Caustic. Opens in Sept.
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Final drawings for Crime and Punishment book project, now onto the paintings.
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Final drawings for Crime and Punishment book project.
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3 years
Some sketches of Philip K Dick for the Folio edition of his short story collection box set.
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Dave McKean
1 year
Original Arkham Asylum 1st edition paperback wraparound cover is up for auction tomorrow, Sat. 17th. here:
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Dave McKean
4 years
Ten pencil drawings for Beehive Press, and their upcoming edition of Crime and Punishment.
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4 years
The only new years party this year is happening on paper - another spread from an ongoing conversational book with Jorge Gonzalez.
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4 years
Last few days of this exhibition in Brussels - VR walk through here:
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Dave McKean
2 years
A Comicon sketch this summer. @Comic_Con
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2 years
Cover for Gormenghast, one of the boxset trilogy by Mervyn Peake out now from Folio. @foliosociety
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2 years
I will post again when the book is available, and where you can buy it. Daisy, dai sy, gi v e mee your ans er d
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2 years
I'm chatting and signing at Canterbury Waterstones on Thur 26th, come along and be provocative.
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4 years
A painting from Nitrate, the original is in the Galeria Artizar show Nitrato. @GaleriaARTIZAR
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4 years
A new book of poems by a friend, one illustration a day over coffee in the morning. More details to come.
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2 years
Signing Tyger, paperback off to the printers. @whatSFSaid
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4 years
Illustration from a new edition of cyber punk classic.
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2 years
Some small paintings in the works for my Nitrate silent film project - The Last Command.
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Dave McKean
1 year
Drawings for the Folio Edition of The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake. Just two more weeks, on til May 21st 2023 @adamsgallery42 Catalogue of available works -
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5 years
San Diego Comicon commissioned sketches - I won't be there this year.
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2 years
I have copies. And a ton of orders, amazed at the response. I'll try and wade through them all next week.
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3 years
Another piece for Iain Sincalir's Fifty Saints.
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Dave McKean
3 years
Faust one off print poster, signed and for at Huberty Breyne gallery in Brussels now. @HubertyBreyne
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Dave McKean
8 years
Off to Comicon tomorrow - commissioned sketches done!
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Dave McKean
4 years
New book started with brilliant and prolific artist Jorge Gonzalez - a visual conversation of a kind.
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Dave McKean
4 years
Hiding from the flying books.
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4 years
Local buzzard at the end of our garden being stared out by two crows.
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Dave McKean
2 years
I've now done several interviews and podcasts about my new book Prompt: Conversations with AI, and the impact of this new technology on every aspect of our lives.
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11 months
Thalamus - 600 page retrospective out now.
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2 years
A new travel sketchbook on my drawing board at the moment, this time, Copenhagen.
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Dave McKean
4 years
"When you draw, it's one of the few times you really pay attention". So sorry to hear that Milton Glaser has died, a huge inspiration.
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2 years
Lights out; farewell to Raymond Briggs, who quietly made personal and powerful books in anger, jest, and grief. When the Wind Blows is the most important comic to come out of the UK.
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4 years
A jazz themed drawing for a group exhibition in Vienna.
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5 years
A sample drawing for a possible book. Details to come if we progress it.
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Dave McKean
1 year
I'm off to Herceg-Novi comics festival tomorrow. See you there if you're in Montenegro.
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Dave McKean
3 years
More moves with Jorge González for our endless visual chess game.
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Dave McKean
4 years
More moves for my ongoing conversational book with artist Jorge Gonzalez.
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3 years
Hand drawn and painted poster for the 45 Artists font leur Cinéma show at Huberty Breyne Gallery in Brussels for sale now. @HubertyBreyne
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3 years
Drawings from Tyger by S F Said - set in a mythic and historically alternate London. Coming this October 2022 from @DFB_storyhouse . @whatSFSaid
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Dave McKean
4 years
Exhibition of new paintings and drawings for my ongoing Nitrate series of images inspired by silent cinema, at Galeria Artizar in La Laguna, Tenerife - til the 16th of January. @GaleriaARTIZAR .
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4 years
More moves with artist Jorge Gonzalez
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4 years
Couldn't make my mind up how to handle this simple image, so I did several. Here's a pencil drawing version against white.
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3 years
More conversational badinage with Jorge Gonzalez.
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Un Chien Andalou one off print poster, signed and for at Huberty Breyne gallery in Brussels now. @HubertyBreyne
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4 years
A silkscreen print that will be signed and tipped into the Nitrato catalogue, available soon from Galeria Artizar in Tenerife. @GaleriaARTIZAR
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Thalamus - 600 page retrospective out now. I'll be launching @GoshComics on the 29th with @whatSFSaid and a signing. Come along...
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4 years
Almost certainly a lockdown project - someone somewhere has painted a version of my artwork for Machine Head's first album on his shed. I hope his hi-fi goes up to eleven.
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4 years
Exhibition opening on the 29th July at Huberty Breyne Gallery in Brussels. Work from Crime and Punishment, Cages, Full Throttle, Postcard from Prague and Particle Tarot Minor Arcana.
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3 years
Catalogue for my exhibition at Artizar in Tenerife in my hands. @GaleriaARTIZAR
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5 years
Final two-colour introduction illustration for Full throttle.
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5 years
An owl for Iain Ballamy's memorial concert for poet and collaborator Matthew Sweeney.
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Dave McKean
4 years
Happy to be a part of this project. The Complete Short Stories by Philip K. Dick and introduced by Jonathan Lethem is available exclusively at @foliosociety .
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2 years
I'll be at Adam's Gallery in Reigate today, April 1st. from 2-4pm, happy to chat and sign anything I'm in. This is not a joke.
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Reprint cover for Black Dog paperback, from Dark Horse, plus extra 16 pages of unused and 'making of' material. @DarkHorseComics
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5 years
Signing plate sketches done for Joe Hill's Full Throttle.
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7 years
A one-off original cover for a first edition of The Waste Land & Other Poems by T. S. Eliot. for @illustrationHQ charity auction.
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Dave McKean
3 years
Simon Moorhead was the producer on MirrorMask. He's raising money with his grandson for Bromley Borough Foodbank. He has one more signed MM poster for auction (and I've added this original drawing) here:
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5 years
Cover feature for Prog magazine look back at this seminal Dream Theatre album in next issue.
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4 years
A spread from Nitrate, the original drawings are in the Galeria Artizar show Nitrato. @GaleriaARTIZAR
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3 years
Another poster version from one of my Nitrate paintings, editioned and on it's way to Huberty Breyne Gallery in Brussels. @HubertyBreyne
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Dave McKean
4 years
Happy (late) birthday to me. No fancy schmancy restaurant this year, just homemade pizzas at home, but you know what? Who needs schmancy, they were great.
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4 years
I have final copies of Postcard from Prague, available from my website shop next month.
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3 years
Blood of a Poet edition print at Huberty Breyne, Brussels. @HubertyBreyne
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8 years
Huge @DarkHorseComics hb ltd ed. Black Dog in my hands now!!!
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The stack of Raptor signing plates slowly going down.
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