David Almond, britischer Autor von Büchern für Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene (in der Fachsprache
young adults novels). Soweit ich das in Erfahrung bringen konnte, weder verwandt noch verschwängert mit der 70er Jahre Glam-Rock-Ikone Marc Almond.
Hat mehrere Kinderbücher geschrieben, die Dave McKean illustriert hat - laut
Paul Gravett können diese als Comics für Kinder kategorisiert werden:
Zitat:
The Savage
by David Almond, illustrated by Dave McKean
Walker Books, £7.99
“It was as if the story had been waiting for me, and once I began, it seemed to write itself.” That urgency which writer David Almond felt is also what drives his protagonist, a young boy named Blue, to write and draw his own secret story in a notebook as an instinctual outlet for his turbulent emotions after losing his father and being bullied at school. Almond’s second novel for younger readers grew out of a television commission for ITV and Seven Stories: The Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle. Intense but relatively brief, it might have seemed minor and slight in prose only and risked being marginalised or overlooked. But Almond’s enthusiasm for the graphic novel form led to Dave McKean being given free rein to interpret and enhance it visually and the resulting fusion, billed as “an extraordinary graphic novel within a novel”, proves doubly affecting.
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Desweiteren finden sich in der
Wikipedia:
Zitat:
2008: The Savage, David Almond (Text), Dave McKean (Illustration), Walker (London) (...)
2010: Slog´s Dad, David Almond (Text), Dave McKean (Illustration), Walker (London) (...)
2013: Mouse Bird Snake Wolf, David Almond (Text), Dave McKean (Illustration), Walker (London)
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