Violent Cases (Paperback)
by Neil Gaiman (Author), Dave McKean (Author)
Published by KITCHEN SINK in 1997. Presented for the first time with the full original color tonal artwork as illustrated by DAVE MCKEAN.
NEIL GAIMAN'S FIRST PUBLISHED GRAPHIC NOVEL. HIS FIRST COLLABORATION WITH DAVE MCKEAN. The UK Version was written and published in 1987, before SANDMAN was conceived!
One of the RARE occasions that McKean has done the inside artwork as well as the beautiful cover illustration!
Product Description
An exploration of the trappings of violence and the failings of memory, Violent Cases marks the beginning of the astonishing and award-winning collaboration between author Neil Gaiman and the artist Dave McKean, in softcover format. Set only in the memory of its author, this brillant short story meanders through levels of recollection surrounding a childhood injury. After dislocating his arm, a young boy is taken to see a doctor - an aged osteopath who was once the doctor of legendary gangster Al Capone. Through studied observations and painstaking attempts at truthful recall, the author reconstructs his tattered memories of the events surrounding his meeting with the doctor, and delves into the psychological complexities that emerged from the doctor's bizarre tales of Capone's life of crime. Gorgeously illustrated in mixed media by Dave McKean, Violent Cases is a sensuous and thought-provoking meditation on our memories.
Highly recommended with lavish mixed media painted artwork by Mckean and a compelling semi-autobiographical story by Gaiman.
Gorgeously illustrated in by Dave McKean, VIOLENT CASES is a sensuous and thought-provoking meditation on our memories.
It is in many ways a far superior improvement to the 1st British Edition published in 1987 by Escape. Beneath a brand new cover by DAVE MCKEAN, the artwork is presented for the first time in it's original full color tones and tints, presented in the manner that McKean originally envisioned. It is also greatly enhanced by the high quality glossy paper stock this version is printed on.
This book is actually the first in a planned trilogy of stories. The second volume is entitled MR PUNCH, and was published by DC/VERTIGO COMICS. The third volume is still to come in some distant future.
About the Author
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
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