was canceled. During this period on his first ongoing monthly title, McKeever claims that he was able to pencil "a pretty tight eight pages a day, then when I got to inking, I was completing an average of three fully inked pages a day." Other Vertigo projects followed — most edited by Lou Stathis, who had moved to Vertigo (but who died in 1997) — including Industrial Gothic (1995), Junk Culture (1997), Toxic Gumbo (with writer Lydia Lunch, 1998), and Faith (1999–2000). In the late 1990s/early 2000s, McKeever worked with writers Randy Lofficier & Jean-Marc Lofficier on a trilogy of DC Elseworlds one-shots based on German Expressionist cinema — Superman's Metropolis (1997), Batman: Nosferatu (1999), and Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon (2003). In 2010 McKeever began producing solo projects for Jim Valentino's Shadowline imprint at Image Comics. Starting with Meta4, McKeever then continued between the years 2011 through 2015, where he produced the series Mondo, Miniature Jesus, The Superannuated Man, and finally Pencil Head in 2016, before he walked away from the comics industry for good. Part of McKeever's stated reason for leaving comics was his poor relationship with then-DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio, who took on the position beginning in 2000. Upon learning of McKeever's retirement from comics, writer/editor Heidi MacDonald characterized him as "a unique, powerful talent with a body of work that shows not only a powerful storytelling voice but a haunting streak of surrealism." Awards (nomination) 1992 UK Comic Art Award for Best Writer/Artist (nomination) 1997 Eisner Award for Best Short Story for "Perpetual Mourning" in Batman Black and White #1 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Illustrated Narrative (with Thomas Ligotti, Joe Harris, Stuart Moore, Michael Gaydos, Colleen Doran and Ben Templesmith for The Nightmare Factory) Bibliography (selected) Creator series Transit (Vortex Comics, 1986) Eddy Current (Mad Dog Graphics, 1987–1988) Plastic Forks (Epic Comics, 1989-1990) Metropol (Epic Comics, 1991–1992) Metropol A.D. (Epic Comics, 1992) Industrial Gothic (Vertigo, 1995) Junk Culture (Vertigo, 1997) Faith (Vertigo, 1999–2000) Meta4 (Shadowline, 2010–2011) Mondo (Shadowline, 2010–2012) Miniature Jesus (Shadowline, 2013) The Superannuated Man (Shadowline, 2014–2015) Pencil Head (Shadowline, 2016) Funky Porcini (Self-Published Zine, 2017-2018) Other comics work untitled one-pager in Strip AIDS U.S.A. (Last Gasp, 1988) (with writer Dave Gibbons) "Survivor," in A1 #1 (Atomeka Press, 1989) "The Talk of Creatures," in A1 #2 (Atomeka Press, 1989) (with writer Peter Milligan) The Extremist (Vertigo, 1993) (with writer Rachel Pollack) Doom