Violent Cases (American Color Edition) - Softcover

Neil Gaiman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852863722 ISBN 13: 9781852863722

Publisher: Tundra Publishing Ltd., 1991

Synopsis

This is a short graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman, and illustrated by Dave McKean. When this was originally published in 1987, it was in Black & White; This is the first American color edtion. A narrator tells how a small child in Portsmouth is taken by his father to be treated by an Osteopath who once was employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator's relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath tells, and the disturbing events that follow are partially obscured by the narrator's imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to fully comprehend at the time.

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About the Author

Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, and now lives in the United States near Minneapolis. As a child he discovered his love of books, reading, and stories, devouring the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, and G. K. Chesterton. A self-described "feral child who was raised in libraries," Gaiman credits librarians with fostering a lifelong love of reading: "I wouldn't be who I am without libraries. I was the sort of kid who devoured books, and my happiest times as a boy were when I persuaded my parents to drop me off in the local library on their way to work, and I spent the day there. I discovered that librarians actually want to help you: They taught me about interlibrary loans."

Neil Gaiman's work has been honored with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honored with four Hugos, two Nebulas, one World Fantasy Award, four Bram Stoker Awards, six Locus Awards, two British Science Fiction Association Awards, one British Fantasy Award, three Geffens, one International Horror Guild Award, and two Mythopoeic Awards.

Dave McKean is an illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpture.

After a trip to New York in 1986, during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories, Violent Cases, published in 1987. This was followed in 1988 by a Black Orchid miniseries (again with Gaiman) and Hellblazer covers for DC Comics. Beginning in 1989 he produced the covers for Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman as well as all its collected editions and many of its spin-offs; and the Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, with writer Grant Morrison (1989). McKean has gone on to collaborate further with Neil Gaiman in both print and film.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tundra Publishing Ltd.
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1852863722
• ISBN 13: 9781852863722
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Dave McKean