Dave McKean
@davemckean.bsky.social
Comic book creator, writer, illustrator, artist, filmmaker, musician, composer, photographer, designer, twitcher, bad cook.
Finally decided to part with this page from Arkham Asylum, Heritage Auctions bidding this week, ends Friday morning: comics.ha.com/itm/original...
September 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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.
August 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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.
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Last few days to see Dark Carnival drawings at Adam's Gallery in Reigate.
A little film for Quercus, a few gigs upcoming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpNc...
Quercus promo
YouTube video by Dave McKean
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August 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A little film for Quercus, a few gigs upcoming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpNc...
Red kite in the back garden.
August 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Red kite in the back garden.
Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival original artwork exhibition up now at Adam's Gallery in Reigate, UK.
August 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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.
July 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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.
February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
@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.
Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival, pre-order here: subterraneanpress.com/bradbury-dc/...
Dark Carnival (preorder)
Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival, pre-order here: subterraneanpress.com/bradbury-dc/...
My Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities drawings for sale at the Huberty Breyne booth at this year's BRAFA art fair in Brussels this week.
January 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities drawings for sale at the Huberty Breyne booth at this year's BRAFA art fair in Brussels this week.
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Karen Haber reviews THALAMUS: THE ART OF DAVE MCKEAN by @davemckean.bsky.social (@DaveMcKean): “Thalamus is a must for artists, comic lovers, art worshippers and anyone else with the pocket change and shelf space…” locusmag.com/2025/01...
Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean by Dave McKean: Review by Karen Haber
Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse 978-1-50672486-7 $149.99, 600pp, hc) November 2023. Cover by Dave McKean. A giant of the fantastic art field deserves a huge print retrospe…
locusmag.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Karen Haber reviews THALAMUS: THE ART OF DAVE MCKEAN by @davemckean.bsky.social (@DaveMcKean): “Thalamus is a must for artists, comic lovers, art worshippers and anyone else with the pocket change and shelf space…” locusmag.com/2025/01...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, out now.
December 19, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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.
December 13, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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.
December 11, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yQ...
Phoenix by SF Said - book trailer (created by Dave McKean)
YouTube video by Random House Children's Publishers UK.
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December 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yQ...
New book, Postcard from Copenhagen, out now, and available from my webshop: davemckean.com together with the Nitrate poster folio, Subangelis, and other.
November 26, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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.
November 26, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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.
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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.
November 16, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Hi - I'm going to leave this account here on pause, and see how the world changes for yuX and everything else.