Dream Logic

by David W. Mack

Collecting the entire Marvel Comics series of Dream Logic by David Mack, this hardcover includes original new stories as well as a gallery of art work, sketchbook, step by step art process with commentary on Mack's cover work, Kabuki, and never before seen extras. Also included are the art and making of from Mack's acclaimed tarot card set as well as Mack's figure drawings that were exhibited with the works of Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele in Los Angeles and Chicago exhibits.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Art, Comic Book, Short Stories, Nonfiction, Memoir

240 pages, Hardcover

First published December 23, 2014

About the author

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David W. Mack is a comic book artist and writer, best known for his creation Kabuki and his work on the Marvel Comics titles Daredevil and Alias

The author of the Star Trek Novels is David Mack

Reviews

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 3 out of 5]

A big hardcover collection of Mack's creative Dream Logic comics and then lots of scrapbook-like creations, kind of like Collected Works, part I. Part sketchbook, part journal, artistic memoir, mainly an art book overall, with the central purpose of gathering these comics, with a few reflections on process along the way. Collaborations with Neil Gaiman and other luminaries, but I'd have to say the work isn't all that memorable to me. A lot of pretty pictures, filled with playful experimentation, ala art journal, in many ways. He's an original, though. Fun to look at.

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful graphical and photographical memoir of David Mack's illustrious career, part of his childhood and contains examples of his sketches and progressive artwork. Incredible!

[Camilla Hjertø · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book by chance as I was looking for ebook graphic novels to buy and read online, and it made me really happy. Mack's art was gorgeous and I appreciated the small snippets and stories a lot, too.

[Burton Olivier · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love David and his art so much. I'm in this book twice, pictures of two of my tattoos. He calls me Burtzor for one and my full name for the other. Wonder if anyone ever cared enough to put two and two together.

[Michael Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Paintings, drawings, sketches, journal and story snippets -- I never get tired of David Mack's Kabuki-inspired artwork. What else can I say?

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazing book, and what an amazing artist! Mack's sumi-e paintings are brilliant! His descriptions of how he makes his are are illuminating.

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

In Dream Logic David Mack, the person behind Kabuki presents us with his art and a series of autobiographical stories. It is interesting to see how this super talented artist came to fame.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very inspirational. Shelved in adult graphic novel section, but very much a memoir of and artists inspiration. Keeping it for further inspiration.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

So pretty :)

[Zoë Birss · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hm. Had I not just recently read Reflections by David Mack, I'd likely be more enthusiastic about this book. However, instead I find it redundant, and that is disappointing. Almost everything I had to say about Reflections applies to this book. It's a scrapbook of David Mack's art. However, there are dozens of pages, possibly more, that are exactly the same as Reflections. It's repeated material, exactly as it appears in the other book. And like Reflections, many other pages are simply taken from other books by Mack, reprinted without comment. This, plus the dozen pages of photos with fans, and the pages of letters from fans, and these two books together begin to feel a little self indulgent.

Is the art beautiful? Yes. Is it worth priming? Yes. Did the art deserve two different books featuring a good portion of redundant material between them without a clear distinct difference between the two? No.

This volume has a lot more figure drawing than Reflections, where Reflections showed more watercolour process. Dream Logic also has a few interesting sequential pieces. However, almost all of these are included in part in Reflections. So, it's nice to be able to read the whole narratives, but again, there is no reason these and the nudes couldn't be included in the other book to just create a single art book instead of a redundancy.

[Kerfe · Rating 3 out of 5]

The part I liked best in this book was a graphic story at the very beginning about Mack's father. It was emotional, simple, real.

Mostly Mack is very full of himself. He draws well, and I like some of his collages, but a lot of it is too studied and stylized for my taste. I feel like he's playing to his audience rather than creating for himself, out of some need. Not that this in in-and-of-itself a bad thing--we all have to eat--but there's a pretentiousness that rubs me the wrong way.

I was not surprised to find him collaborating with Neil Gaiman--he has the same irritating habit of name-dropping, like that validates the work, or makes him better or more important. Like Gaiman, Mack does not need that ego massage-he could stand on his own talents without all the bells and whistles.

Although there is good and interesting work in "Dream Logic", it was too layered with self-importance for me to go much below the surface.

[Lady Entropy · Rating 4 out of 5]

It compiles the first four issues, but with a ton of extra, pretty content.

Now if only D. Mack went back to writing comics....

(and put out a collected edition of Reflections 1-5, and 11 to 15)