Dave McKean
@davemckean.bsky.social
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Comic book creator, writer, illustrator, artist, filmmaker, musician, composer, photographer, designer, twitcher, bad cook.
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Finally decided to part with this page from Arkham Asylum, Heritage Auctions bidding this week, ends Friday morning: comics.ha.com/itm/original...
Huge retrospective exhibition opening on the 11th Sept. at Huberty & Breyne gallery in Brussels. i'll be there. Work representing 40 years of comics, illustration, painting, photography, film and theatre.
Last few days to see Dark Carnival drawings at Adam's Gallery in Reigate.
Red kite in the back garden.
Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival original artwork exhibition up now at Adam's Gallery in Reigate, UK.
Two exhibitions currently up, At Comicgarden in Copenhagen, and Galerie Artizar in La Laguna, Tenerife.
@johnmartynproject.bsky.social at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury. Tricky to do justice to such a wayward and singular voice, but in their own way they conjured Martyn's spirit, stunning harmonies and guitar work, solid rhythm section, from the gentlest midnight quiet to raucous noise. Recommended.
My Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities drawings for sale at the Huberty Breyne booth at this year's BRAFA art fair in Brussels this week.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, out now.
I did a sequence for The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee, just been sent a nice thank you. Check out the film on streaming services.
Great screening last night of Asif Kapadia's warning from the future 2073.
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Thank you so much Claire for recommending Phoenix - and @helloamandaroth.bsky.social, if you'd like to give him a flavour of it to see what he thinks, here's a brilliant book trailer for it made by the illustrator @davemckean.bsky.social - it's basically Chapter 1:
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Phoenix by SF Said - book trailer (created by Dave McKean)
YouTube video by Random House Children's Publishers UK.
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New book, Postcard from Copenhagen, out now, and available from my webshop: davemckean.com together with the Nitrate poster folio, Subangelis, and other.
Lake Comic Comic Art Festival announcing guests for next year now. I'll be there.
Michael Palin, interviewed by Miranda Sawyer at King's Place. A sensible, sensitive, unpretentious, worldly, and still a bit spiky, voice, in a world of aggressive opinions and self pity.
Hi - I'm going to leave this account here on pause, and see how the world changes for yuX and everything else.