You can hear it practically ringing in your ears. And you can hear the pieces fluttering to the floor, and the man is walking past them, kicking some of the pieces along to the side.Įven the silence is overwhelming. In this one can’t you just hear the sounds of someone painstakingly shredding paper into pieces? Slowly but surely. You can hear all that, by just looking at that graphic. You can hear her saying things, you can hear her walking up and down the carpeted staircase. You can just hear the voice of a woman echoing in the background, but not really listening to what she’s saying. Because when I was reading the book, I was actually hearing those sounds.
But how, you may ask, does one draw noise?Īnd that is why I say Dave McKean is a genius. In fact, sometimes I wondered if the noises were even more important, signaling the change of scenes, from the director, to the director’s storyl from past to present from reality to fiction. Like the title suggests, the noises around us are as important to the telling of this story, as the story itself. The book itself is a complete work of art. And frankly, I have no words that can do this book any justice at all. Much like the Y2K frenzy we had when that came about, this story that the director has in his mind is pretty much all doom and gloom, and the villagers are just waiting around for the end of the world.īut that’s not what the story is about. He goes about his last days writing a story set in the year 999, at the verge of a new millenium. The bonus material in this first-time hardcover edition captures every leg of the journey, including three related short stories unseen in nearly two decades, an additional chapter created for the CD release of the radio drama, and a new introduction by Dave McKean along with the original by Jonathan Carrol and the radio drama introduction by Neil Gaiman.Signal to Noise tells the story of a director after he learns that he is dying. Serialized in The Face in 1989, expanded and revised into a graphic novel in 1992, and adapted for radio in 2000, Signal to Noise has never stopped evolving.
But he's still working it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. approached - the midnight that the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon. His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of 999 A.D. Somewhere in London, a film director is dying of cancer. Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean present their masterpiece in a completely remastered and redesigned edition overflowing with bonus material!
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