Dave
McKean has illustrated many ground breaking graphic novels and books,
including The Magic of Reality (Richard Dawkins), The Fat Duck Cookbook
(Heston Blumenthal), What's Welsh For Zen (John Cale), The Savage and
Slog's Dad (David Almond), Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison), The
Homecoming (Ray Bradbury), Wizard and Glass (Stephen King), The
Graveyard Book, Wolves in the Walls, Coraline, Mr. Punch, Signal to
Noise and Crazy Hair (all by Neil Gaiman).
He has written and
illustrated the multi-award winning graphic novel Cages, a short story
collection Pictures That Tick, an erotic graphic novel Celluloid, and is
working on a new novel (Caligaro) and a second volume of short stories.
He
has designed and illustrated well over a hundred cd covers for artists
as diverse as Michael Nyman, Rolling Stones, John Cale, Alice Cooper,
Bill Laswell, Bill Bruford, Counting Crows, Iain Ballamy, Tori Amos and
Frontline Assembly, and has also created many advertising campaigns, and
book and comic covers, including Neil Gaiman's influential Sandman
series.
He has directed several short films and three features,
MirrorMask for The Jim Henson Company/Sony Pictures, the self penned
Luna (currently in post), and The Gospel of Us, a film adaptation of
Michael Sheen's Passion of Port Talbot live theatre project.
He has exhibited in Europe, America and Japan.