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Presents a tale about the inhabitants of an apartment building, including a blocked painter, a controversial novelist, and a wise musician
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Dave McKean is best known for his regular collaboration with Neil Gaiman, during which he has created covers for every single issue and one-shot of Sandman, (now collected as Titan's The Sandman: Dustcovers), Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, Black Orchid and Mr. Punch. Also celebrated for his work with Grant Morrison on the classic Batman: Arkham Asylum, Cages represents McKean's first major solo work.
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Best known for his work with Neil Gaiman, McKean is also an accomplished cartoonist in his own right. This is his magnum opus to date: an immense, pulsing graphic novel that's also a treatise on art, creativity and the uses and misuses of technique. Originally serialized between 1990 and 1996 (and collected in 1998), it's been out of print for several years. The book's plot is fairly rudimentary: a painter, a writer and a musician who live in the same apartment building find their lives intersecting. But the book's gradual shift from literalism to fanciful allegories and stories-within-stories mostly serves as the springboard for a visual tour de force. For most of the book, McKean restricts himself to wobbly, jagged two-tone pen-and-ink drawings, occasionally in the manner of Egon Schiele. But he often signals shifts in storytelling mode by switching media or style (to ink-wash brushwork, airbrushed photography, white-on-black "woodcuts," bold near-abstractions or whatever seems appropriate); when the artwork erupts into full-color paintings and collages, the effect is explosive. Even when the story falters or drifts into endless philosophical chitchat, McKean's artwork saves the day. His characters, built out of crazily bent lines and splatters, have perfectly choreographed body language, and his daring visual experiments serve the ideological goals of his writing.
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- PublisherKitchen Sink Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0878166017
- ISBN 13 9780878166015
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages496
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CAGES (Signed & Numbered Ltd. Edition with CD in Slipcase)
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Kitchen Sink Press, Northampton, MA
(1998)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New - In Slipcase. McKEAN, DAVE (illustrator). 1st Edition. HB - Signed, Numbered Ltd. Edition No. 367 of 1000 (Signed by Dave McKean on CD attached to inner back cover) - As New/As New in As New Slipcase (note: slipcase mostly sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap) - Dave McKean, famous for Arkham Asylum and his covers for Sandman, presents a highly allegorical tale of the dwellers of an apartment building. Running in parallel lines or tangentially, the differing lives each have their own tale to tell under the magic spin of McKean's brilliant imagery and story-telling. It's about a blocked painter, a controversial novelist, and a wise musician. It may be about God, about Jazz, about sex, but also about creativity and artistic fulfillment. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 007552
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