Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

Here’s a chance to get an up-close look at some incredible human chemistry. The Gaiman-McKean duo is a veritable artistic cottage industry. Between them they have worked in nearly every medium; they direct, produce, perform, sculpt, paint, blog, and, of course, draw and write. Get them some tap shoes and the rest of us can retire. Their graphic novels, comics (notably, Gaiman’s series The Sandman, for which McKean created the covers), and film collaboration (Mirrormask, 2005) are immensely popular with fantasy enthusiasts, but they’ve also cracked the mainstream with work like Gaiman’s novels American Gods and Anansi Boys and McKean’s conceptual art for the recent Harry Potter films. Besides being prolific collaborators, they’re also good friends. McKean is Gaiman’s favorite artist to work with, he explains, “because he surprises me.” 612-375-7600; www.walkerart.org