CELLULOID by Dave McKean. Hardcover FIRST printing / FIRST edition erotic graphic novel published by Fantagraphics Books in April 2011.

ADULTS ONLY – NOT TO BE SOLD TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

The book and dustjacket are in very good / near fine condition. The cover boards are clean and bright with sharp corner tips; binding is tight, sturdy, and square. The interior pages are clean, as is the interior page block. The dust jacket is unclipped and is in very good condition without tears or creases. Book has NO remainder marks.  

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A woman arrives at an apartment, but her partner can’t get away from work. She is disappointed and settles in for a night alone, but finds a film projector with a reel of film loaded. The film is scratched and blurry, but she can make out a couple making love. When the film burns out, a door is revealed which leads to a misty town square... and a series of fantastical sexual encounters.

Celluloid is a rare instance of a top-flight cartoonist working within erotic — even pornographic, to embrace the word — parameters, with the intent of creating a genuine work of art.

As the McKean says: “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.”

Bringing to bear the astonishing range of illustrative and storytelling skills that have served him so well on his collaborations with Neil Gaiman and such solo projects as Cages, Dave McKean forges into new territory with this unique work of erotica.