David McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is an English 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.
More recently McKean has collaborated with Neil Gaiman on two children's picture books, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (1998) and The Wolves in the Walls (2003), and illustrated Gaiman's children's novels Coraline (2002) and The Graveyard Book (2008).
His film MirrorMask was nominated for the William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie.
McKean has also created a few books documenting his travels using only illustrations. Examples include Postcards from Vienna, Postcards from Barcelona, Postcards from Paris (2008), and Postcards from Brussels (2009). He also wrote another book of 200 pages called Squink (éditions BdArtist(e)) that gathered a number of drawings in 15 chapters.
He also made CD covers for various music artists such as: Alice Cooper, Altan, Tori Amos, Iain Ballamy, Believer, Bill Bruford and Earthworks, Buckethead (for whom he also created a 3D animation in 16 mm), John Cale, Counting Crows, Dali's Dilemma, Disincarnate, Download, Dream Theater, Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly, Bill Laswell, Machine Head, Mediaeval Babes, James Murphy, My Dying Bride, Michael Nyman, Paradise Lost, Skinny Puppy, etc.
McKean has won numerous awards and accolades. Over the years, he has been nominated 5 times for a World Fantasy Award in the category of "Artist", and in 1991 he won the award.[4] His graphic novel Cageswon the Alph-Art, Pantera, and Harvey Awards for best Graphic Novel.[5] He has been nominated 6 times and won 3 Spectrum Awards in the categories of "Advertising", "Book", and "Comic".[6] His collection of short comics, Pictures That Tick won the V&A Museum Illustrated Book Awards Overall First Prize.[5] In 2004, McKean won a BSFA Award in "Short Fiction" along with Neil Gaiman for their work, The Wolves in the Walls. 
McKean is also an accomplished jazz pianist, and founded the record label Feral Records with saxophonist Iain Ballamy.external links:
official website: http://www.davemckean.com/
other works: http://www.mckean-art.co.uk/
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