Dave McKean fans will be in for a treat this year as Dark Horse Books have announced Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean – a comprehensive collection of the artist’s body of work November 29, 2023.
Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean will be a slipcase box set of two prestige hardcovers displaying work from across the multimedia British artist’s career – including never before seen behind the scenes materials for many of his comics works. Coming in at 600 pages and befitting its prestige production values it will retail for $149.99.
According to Dark Horse:
“Dark Horse Books presents the first comprehensive collection of work from legendary artist Dave McKean in Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean, a beautifully-designed set of two hardcover volumes with satin ribbon bookmarks, housed together in a stunning slipcase displaying new original artwork by McKean.
“This collection features McKean’s work from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Mirrormask, Arkham Asylum, Cages, Black Dog, Raptor, and many more iconic images from modern comics, literature, film, and music. The books also include never-before-seen bonus material with commentary by Dave McKean along with a foreword by David Boyd Haycock.
“Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean will span 600 pages, with the set measuring 10.5 x 14”. It will arrive in bookstores November 28, 2023 and comic shops November 29, 2023. It is now available to pre-order for $149.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore.”
Dave McKean is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist based in the UK who first burst onto the comics scene alongside Neil Gaiman with 1987’s Violent Cases. Across his career McKean has utilised various methods to produce art – of which illustration is just one aspect. His most recent work includes the graphic novel Raptor (2021); illustrations for SF Said’s children’s book Tyger (2022); and Prompt, a 2022 published book-length visual discourse on the controversial subject of machine-generated (often called AI) art.
