Dave McKean
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New special edition with bonus material by Dave McKean! Best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, McKean defied expectations with his stunning debut as writer and artist in Cages, winner of multiple awards for Best Graphic Album. Dark Horse proudly presents a new original graphic novel by the legendary artist based on the life of Paul Nash, a surrealist painter during World War 1. The Dreams of Paul Nash deals with real soldier's memoirs,...
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A visual tour-de-force graphic novel from artist and writer Dave McKean (Black Dog, The Sandman).
The Raptor, Sokol, flickers between two worlds: a feudal fantastical landscape where he must hunt prey to survive, and Wales in the late 1800s where a writer of supernatural tales mourns the passing of his young wife. He exists between two states, the human and the hawk. He lives in the twilight between truth and lies, life and death, reality and the...
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THE COLLECTED DREAMING COVERS presents Dave McKean's astounding cover art from THE SANDMAN's companion series, THE DREAMING, plus THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE, THE SANDMAN COMPANION and more - along with a brand-new story Written by Neil Gaiman that features an appearance by The Sandman!
5) Coraline
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
6) Crazy hair
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Bonnie encounters all sorts of exotic animals and marvelous things inside a man's crazy hair.
8) MirrorMask
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A girl from a family of circus performers finds herself in a strange new world populated by mysterious creatures--a dreamworld in which she is about to embark on a most amazing journey, in a full-color graphic novella based on the Sony Pictures fantasy film. Helena is about to embark on a most amazing journey. Raised in a family of circus performers, she's always dreamed of leading a more ordinary life. But when haunting music draws her into a strange...
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2011.
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Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" revolutionized the way humans see natural selection. His blockbuster "The God Delusion" provoked worldwide debate. Now this master science writer has teamed up with a master of the graphic novel to create a new genre: the graphic science book.-- Publisher
11) Black Orchid
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A plant/human hybrid superhero called Black Orchid goes on a spiritual journey in the wake of her death, during which she reviews her life, investigates her origins, and is given the opportunity to avenge herself.
12) Violent cases
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2013.
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A perceptively sensitive and ingenious work, Violent Cases reveals the often murky nexus between memory and imagination through the narrator's cloudy childhood remembrance of a visit to Al Capone's osteopath and the impact of seedy stories on impressionable youth. Gradually, the England of the 1960s and the Chicago of the 1920s begin to merge into a beautifully drawn and hauntingly written tale of memory and evil.
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Absolute Sandman volume 2
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2007
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English
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Chronicles the doings of Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, and his siblings, each the embodiment of one of the dark forces of nature.
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Absolute Sandman volume 5
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[2011]
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Volume 5 collects some of the side material that was doesn't quite fit into the chronology - stories about the Endless, a fox, and the other Sandman.
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Absolute Sandman volume 3
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2008
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English
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"The third volume collecting Neil Gaiman's seminal, award-winning series starring the Dream King in deluxe format. ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 3 presents several key SANDMAN tales in a slipcased hardcover edition, including "Brief Lives," in which the Sandman's sister Delirium prevails upon her older brother to help her find their missing sibling, Destruction. But their journey through the Waking World has dramatic repercussions for their family and also...
16) Death
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The first story introduces the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life and (of course) death. In the second story, a rising star of the...
17) Wizard and glass
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Dark Tower volume 4
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2003.
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Roland and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded Blaine, a train that will take them to, of all places, Kansas, where the ghost city of Topeka has been depopulated by a superflu and where, alongside Interstate 70, an emerald palace rises enchantingly. Before Roland and the companions of his ka-tet continue along the Path of the Bean, Roland must tell his companions the tale that defines him both as a man and hero, a long-ago romance...
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This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline-also an Academy Award-nominated film-is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little...
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Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a place of dismal corridors and oppressive shadows-a dark riddle in stone and timber, best left unsolved. Within its claustrophobic walls, the demented and deformed enemies of the Batman brood in padded cells and unlit cellars, dreaming of a day when they might rise up and overthrow the world of reason. That day has finally come. It is April 1, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Led by The Joker,...
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Written by Neil Gaiman; painted art and cover by Dave McKean In stores April 18. Reoffered to coincide with the release of THE QUOTABLE SANDMAN HC, this comprehensive collection contains all the painted covers that Dave McKean produced for THE SANDMAN series, including all the collections, one-shots, trading cards, and more. Writer Neil Gaiman and McKean offer running commentary throughout.