Friday 29 May 2009

Shakespeare McKean style

Tomorrow I'll be visiting a Dave McKean exhibition in Brussels for an article. He is a multi award-winning illustrator, filmaker, comic book artist,... And yet he is probably most famous for his numerous collaborations with Neil Gaiman for who he has illustrated many books (Coraline, The Graveyard Book,..) and designed the wonderful covers for the celebrated Sandman series. His visual flair is quite unusual and has a magical yet ominous out-of-this-world quality to it.

This example of his movie making skills (in which he revamps Shakespeare's sonnet 138) illustrates his unique and uncanny style:


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