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Article: Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean - Violent Cases
Posted: October 14, 2013
Dark Horse Comics are releasing a new deluxe edition of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s first graphic novel collaboration, Violent Cases, published by Escape Books in 1987. The photo above shows them both when they won an Eagle Award for the book. It’s good timing to run my introduction for the Tenth Anniversary version, published in 1987 by Kitchen Sink Press. Dave McKean will be talking with me at a Comica Conversation on Tuesday October 29th at Foyles Bookshop in Charing Cross Road, London. And Neil Gaiman is talking at a sold-out Foyles/Time Out evening on Tuesday October 15th. It shows how far things have changed over some twenty five years. In 2013, Neil is filling the entire Central Hall Westminster, about the biggest live audience he’s ever addressed here, and the same venue where Violent Cases all began very modestly all those years ago at the regular Saturday Comic Marts.
In addition, this week Knockabout Comics and the digital graphic novel app Sequential are offering a free digital download of Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales, a bunch of “lost” Neil Gaiman comics, including collaborations with Bryan Talbot, Dave McKean, and others. Simply download the free Sequential app and then download Lost Tales from there. For every download, a donation of $0.50 will be made to the charity Malaria No More, with a target of raising $15,000 to fight malaria. The book, called Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales, will also include a very rare 1980s interview, Gaiman’s original typed notes for The Sandman, sample scripts, project proposals, and more, including an original cover by Hunt Emerson. As a modest Extra, I’ve been interviewed for a short audio clip on how Violent Cases came to be. Read the rest of this Article here…
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