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Before The Sandman, there was Violent Cases, the first teaming of multi award-winning writer Neil Gaiman and innovative artist Dave McKean. A 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 his seedy stories on a impressionable youth. Now Violent Cases is available with a stunning new cover by McKean and revised interior colour to accurately reflect the artist's vision. Contains adult themes.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is the first time Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean worked together - and looking back at the story now (and please remember it was initially released in 1987 and the 10th Anniversary Editon is now several years old) you can see the genisis of something very special starting to germinate.
McKean's artwork is instantly recognisable, the use of colour is very muted, which mimics the black and white film making of the time some of the story is set in (the 30s in Chicago). Gaiman's use of story in comics hasn't quite become what we know from Sandman, but a youthful Gaiman finding his feet in the comic writing world is still a match for most.
As to the story it is really quite strange - a young man, looking just like Neil Gaiman, looks back at some half remembered moments in his past. The major moment in his life being an accident (or was it an accident?) in which his father twists his shoulder out of joint and he then gets taken to see a chiropracter who treated Al Capone. We get to see childs parties, gangsters, magicians and the 30s as they surely never were.
All in all it's a good book and I give it 8/10.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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I stumbled upon Gaiman's earlier work through his novel "Coraline", which I really liked. But wow, this book really blew my mind and stuck with me.
It starts as an account by someone who recalls early childhood memories: birthday parties, his father, a doctor visit... But, just like memories, once you think about them, it all becomes blurred, fragmented, distorted, and yet some details are very clear. Dave McKean draws this brilliantly. His imagery for this tale fits the meaning perfectly.
Read it slowly, take it in, the colours, the words, the atmosphere... and beware of the last page.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is the first collaboration between writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean. A partnership that has been repeated most famously with McKean's covers for Gaiman's Sandman series. This is a highly impressive work, with McKean's frankly head meltingly weird artwork as the driving force. For anyone who hasn't read a comic illustrated by him, his style can be chaotic to say the least. A typical five to nine panel page is rare, and the drawing style can shift from extremely clear and detailed to cartoony within a single page, for even picture, while including photos in a collage effect. According to Gaiman's foreword in this edition, he wrote the words and left the rest to McKean to work around, a practice I haven't heard of before. One I think that could only work with an artist like Dave McKean on board, who's style can keep you engaged in a bizarre way.
There were a lot of nice little touches that I liked, the majority of it is drawn from a first person perspective, something that I see rarely in comics. While some of symbolism and juxtaposing of images worked well and was interesting.
But it's not without it's flaws. At forty eight pages it doesn't really have time to tell a particularly interesting story, at least not one that worked for me. The narrator was fairly hard to engage with as a character, and apart from the shocking nature of his childhood, it was hard to feel any real sympathy or interest for him, again probably due to the brevity of the story.
This edition has a foreword by Neil Gaiman as it's sole extra.
I'd recommend it, but suggest trying out Gaiman's Sandman series for a superior class of writing, even if the artwork is of a more typical comic book style.
There were a lot of nice little touches that I liked, the majority of it is drawn from a first person perspective, something that I see rarely in comics. While some of symbolism and juxtaposing of images worked well and was interesting.
But it's not without it's flaws. At forty eight pages it doesn't really have time to tell a particularly interesting story, at least not one that worked for me. The narrator was fairly hard to engage with as a character, and apart from the shocking nature of his childhood, it was hard to feel any real sympathy or interest for him, again probably due to the brevity of the story.
This edition has a foreword by Neil Gaiman as it's sole extra.
I'd recommend it, but suggest trying out Gaiman's Sandman series for a superior class of writing, even if the artwork is of a more typical comic book style.
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