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The shelves are almost buckling like a knackered Ikea bookcase under the weight of excellent new stuff – lemme rush through them before they snap.

Dave McKean – whose Cages Bookplate Edition can account for a considerable part of the bookshelf bend – gives us his first solo graphic novel since that aforementioned weighty tome. It’s called Celluloid and it’s got rude bits in. “There are so many comics about violence. I’m not entertained or amused by violence, and I’d rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, ‘does the job.’ I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.” Comicbook Resources have a big interview with McKean and lots of preview pages too, but if you need more you can find them at Fantagraphics’ Flickr.

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