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Writer Neil Gaiman Date of publication 1987 ISBN 1569716064 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Artist Dave McKean Originally published 1987 Page count 48 Illustrator Dave McKean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Escape Books (1987)
Titan Books (1991)
Dark Horse (2002) Genres Horror, Humour, Fiction, Sociology, Fantasy, Speculative fiction Similar Neil Gaiman books, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Violent Cases is a short graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. It was McKean's first published work in comics. Though drawn by McKean in shades of blue, brown, and grey, when it was first published by Escape Books in 1987, it was printed in black-and-white. Later editions have been printed in colour.
A narrator, who is drawn to look like Gaiman, tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator's relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator's imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.
As with many of Gaiman's other works (most notably The Sandman) Violent Cases is a story about stories, and its themes of early childhood perception and the nature of memory are visited again in 1994's Mr. Punch (also with Dave McKean).