The Sandman read along podcast
Kate Burall & Pete Lenz posted the URL of their “Lunch With Neil” along with the background story to alt.fan.neil-gaiman: I had ordered 2 copies of the leather-bound-limited-edition of Neil’s “Angels and Visitations” (great book, by the way) from DreamHaven (hi, guys!). I waited with great anticipation. Time went by…no books. So I called DreamHaven. […]
Toymania News reports that the plans for the Death/Vertigo Beanie Babies has been scrapped: In other DC-related news, we have learned that plans to produce bean bag toys of popular DC and Vertigo characters have been scrapped. No official reason was given for the decision. Perhaps this is a signal that the bean bag craze […]
The Comic Site Alliance. Wow, why didn’t I look at this before? A great resource of comic and comic-related links. Feel free to vote for The Dreaming on the Top Ten page Eric Olive’s Olive Designs, featuring Stardust Magnets artwork. Eric is Charles Vess’ assistant.
Craig’s The Endless image gallery, which includes a great “Sandman-y” font for Windows
Lance Smith saw on ToyMania News that DC has green-lighted a Golden Age Sandman figurine to be developed for 1999. Just below that, some shocking news: DC is also developing a few bean bag character toys (a la Beanie Babies). The first two characters are slated to be Lobo and Death. They hope to have […]
Tori Amos’ new album is out. More information at http://www.tori.com/ Word is that one of the songs mentions the Velvets from Neverwhere.
Erica “Green Sprout” Vess has a Charles Vess page
Wow, more movie news! The Cinescape Insider reports that Neil has been paid to write the script for Death: The High Cost of Living. Whether this is old news resurfacing or an actual “go-ahead” remains to be seen. Thanks to Matthew Burke for the news.
The obviously overworked Miramax web site has a similar news article. I’m posting it here because I kept getting “Request Failed” responses when looking for it myself. Miramax has signed Neil Gaiman, the creator/writer of the award-winning monthly cult DC Comics series Sandman, to write an English-language dubbed version of PRINCESS MONONOKE. The highest-grossing film […]
Shun Chan found this on The Hollywood Reporter and passed it along to me: Gaiman dubbed for ‘Mononoke’By Thom Geier NEW YORK — Miramax Films has signed cult comic book creator Neil Gaiman to write an English-language script for “Princess Mononoke,” which last year became Japan’s all-time top-grossing film. The animated feature, the only film […]