Rediscover Dave McKean's lost masterpiece! Pictures That Tick is a collection of McKean's groundbreaking short comics stories from the 1990s and early 2000s. A true iconoclast, McKean mixes illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and digital art for a comics experience unlike any other. Some pieces are poignant, some are silly, but all are beautiful and thought provoking. Each is completely unique, and gathered together they represent a tour-de-force achievement. A perfect companion to McKean's Cages, Pictures That Tick stretches the boundaries of comics art, and the short-story format in some ways allows him to create an even broader artistic vision.
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McKean, best known as an illustrator of Sandman and other works by Neil Gaiman, has also written and drawn a considerable body of work, most notably the ambitious graphic novel Cages (1998). Originally published in a limited edition in 2001, Pictures That Tick collects a decade’s worth of McKean’s short works, pieces ranging from one-page, koan-like tidbits to illustrated texts that resemble picture books for adults to speechless, surreal tales. Visually, the works are even more diverse, incorporating painting, illustration, collage, and digitally manipulated photographs. The most elaborate are reminiscent of the work of animators Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay. Even more quietly impressive are the wordless stories, rendered in sparse line drawings, that evoke a sustained, dreamlike state and often invoke McKean’s favored motif of flight. While many will cherish these iconoclastic tales, their recondite nature is likely to be off-putting to others, including many fans of McKean’s more mainstream efforts. But even those resistant to the unorthodox nature of this art will be impressed by its indisputable craft. --Gordon Flagg
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A few quirky, weird, funny and sad (and scary) tales written and illustrated by Dave McKean. About half the book is in color, and the other half in bw and grays. Very good paper, very very good edition all in all. If you read "Cages" you know what you're getting, and even if some of the stories are very simple, the images are so perfect, so beautiful, so amazing (yes, I am a huge fan) that they alone are worth the price of admission... Truly one of the most innovative comics creators out there, this is for anyone who likes the see what an incredible range the comics format actually can encompass.
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What should I say about Mr McKean?
I am a huge fan of his work since I was 14 yrs old. And, here I am now; 31 ... reading Pictures That Tick ... reading and floating in that dreamland of mixed media, weird narrative, mixed metaphors. The street is quiet, Ash fell asleep, and I wonder what can happen next? Some drawings reminds me of Picasso, some of Schiele, but in the end it's McKean. And, he brings us some short cuts, cold and warm expressions, b&w drawings and lines that binds those strange and real worlds. It's rock 'n' roll and I just can't wait to see part two!
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I love Dave Mc Kean.,
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Im live in Bogota Colombia,and im great fan Dave Mckean Works,simply brilliants.
Recommended 100%.
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