Clippings

From Mary Ryan’s column from the Sept. 4th Daily Ilini:
…If you take more than a passing glance at what the industry has put out, you’ll see that plenty of hard work goes into creating comics. Everyone drops this man’s name, so I figure I might as well: Neil Gaiman.

He wrote what continues to stand as one of the greatest comic books in history, the Sandman series. Incorporating as much research as would suit an average novel into each story-line of the books, Gaiman’s work is held up as one of the best examples that comic books are not only for children, and that they can be more than stories about people who wear their underwear outside their clothes.

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From Ong Sor Fern’s August 26th column about the Edinburgh Festival in the New Straits Times:
…Fortified with a sandwich and caffeine, I was also trying to wrangle an interview with author Neil Gaiman.

Although I succeeded in cornering Gaiman after a book signing, I failed to wrestle him away for long.

But the brief chat turned into a weird demonstration of serendipity. Author China Mieville, who was in Singapore last weekend, had told me to send his regards to Gaiman. Which I did. Gaiman declared: ‘I have something for you then.’

He whipped out his wallet, rooted around before triumphantly extracting an author trading card for me. Mieville was the featured author.

He shrugged: ‘I picked it up in a bookshop signing a couple of days ago and I’ve been carrying it around since. I don’t know why.’….

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Matthew R. Weaver’s review of Coraline appeared in the August 20th issue of the Daily Evergreen

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Powell’s Books is featuring the “Books Have Sexes” essay in their new from the author feature. The old link to the essay appears to still be active, though.

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Stephen Phelan’s interview with Neil appeared in Scotland’s Sunday Herald on 8 September.