Cages
Tundra/Kitchen Sink/NBM.
Cages (12-issue mini; w & a Dave McKean). [From
NBM: One of the all-time best and most highly acclaimed graphic novels
ever is now, finally, back in print! The first print was a quick sell-out
from Kitchen Sink before they disappeared. Dave McKean, famous for Arkham
Asylum and his covers for Sandman, presents a highly allegorical tale of
the dwellers of an apartment building. They each have their own lives, their
own takes on life and these intertwine and relate inevitably to each other
in ways that make life’s mystery. Running in parallel lines or tangentially,
the differing lives each have their own tale to tell under the magic spin
of McKean’s brilliant imagery and story-telling. It’s about a
blocked painter, a controversial novelist and a wise musician. It may be
about God, about jazz, about sex, but also about creativity and artistic
fulfillment. A seminal work that proved, rather refreshingly without artifice,
how thought-provoking comic art can be.] 