Dave McKean
David Tench McKean (born on December 29th, 1963 with Maidenhead, in England). He is illustrator, photographer, graphic designer, artist of comics, realizer and musician. Its work comprises drawing, painting, photography, joining, computer graphics and sculpture.
After a voyage to New York in 1986 during which it did not find work as an artist of comic strip, Mckean with met the author Neil Gaiman and the duet with collaborated on a short graphic novel on worrying the memory of the children, Violent Boxes , published in 1987. In 1988 it publishes the minie series Black Orchid ( black Orchidée , still with Gaiman) and makes the covers of Hellblazer for cd. Comics. It started in 1989 to produce the covers for Sandman , celebrates it series of Gaiman. With Gaiman, it will sign also small graphic novels, like " the day or I exchanged my father against two fish rouges" , " The tragic comedy or the comic tragedy of Mr. Punch" and " Wolves in the murs" …
He is also the illustrator of the " Arkham Asylum" that it signs with Grant Morisson, graphic novel based on the universe of Batman, and more especially targeted around the asylum of Arkham. This major work will mark a turning in the history of the comics and its exploitation, thus encouraging the editors to leave the traditional formats to approach short stories more directed much towards the illustration, ready to touch a new public, plus follower of " beautiful livres". L'" Arkham Asylum" is considered still today for its own esthetics and the dark vision which it will bring on Batman and its universe. It remains a reference impossible to circumvent of the comics.
In 2006, McKean carried out MirrorMask, film which left to France directly in dvd.