Signed

In keeping with my habit of blogging about things well past their relevance, here’s a post about Halloween. boo and I went down to Forbidden Planet and met Dave McKean at an in-store appearance he was making to promote his latest work with Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book.

Unfortunately due to a long queue, a small window of opportunity and some people deciding to get everything they ever owned signed by him (including multiple copies of the same book - hi eBay!), there wasn’t much time to actually speak to him. I really wanted to ask about his workflow, as I’ve loved his work since being introduced to it via Machinehead, Fear Factory and later Skinny Puppy and Frontline Assembly etc. and I’ve not read too many interviews with him where he goes into technical details.

The irony is that Forbidden Planet lost custom - I was going to pick up a nice, shiny new edition of Arkham Asylum to get signed but due to later arrivals such as ourselves being limited to two items only, I put it back and had what I brought with me signed instead:

I think Dave was a little surprised by me asking him to sign Brap. I’m not sure why I asked either but it’s my favourite Skinny Puppy album so that might explain it. Regardless, he certainly seemed to prefer my choices over boo’s.