Neil Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’ Coming To Life
On the LA Times Blog, including some images from the set and this teaser trailer.
Signifying in Comic Books: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
By Michael Niederhausen © 1999 Michael Niederhausen This essay was submitted to the faculty of Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Approved by: Dr. Tyrone Williams – Faculty Thesis Advisor Dr. Norman Finkelstein – English Department Chair Table of Contents Chapter 1 […]
Fantastic Literature: Defending a Dreadful of Dragons
Penny Blubaugh Melissa Scott is the author of eighteen books, most classified as science fiction. She was asked The Question by a friend of her mother’s after publishing her first novel. “So tell me Melissa, why does someone who went to Harvard write this stuff anyway?”[1] Emma Bull is the author of six books, short […]
The Sandman and Psychoanalysis
dave Mockaitis mockaits@uiuc.edu In 1975, Laura Mulvey’s essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” was published in the film journal Screen. A few years later in 1981, Mulvey published “Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ inspired by King Vidor’s Duel In the Sun.‘” Since the publication of these seminal texts, psychoanalytic film theory has become […]
The Sandman – Narrating The Dream
Contents: p.2  Caveat – A Word to the Wise p.3-8  Chapter 1 – There are no facts, just interpretations What is narrative? So what is narrative, and how is it portrayed in comics? p.9-20  Chapter 2 – You shouldn’t trust the storyteller, only trust the story Finding the narrators. Similarity and potential […]
The Dreaming’s First Neil Gaiman Online Chat!
This chat took place on the 30th of October 1998 <Puck> First, I’d like to thank Neil for joining us, and Andy at Avon Books for helping to organize this. <Puck> First question is from Ehich. Ehich, go ahead. <Ehich> On the event horizon chat you talked a bit about your interest in finding out […]
Neil Gaiman: A Man For All Seasons
Most of the creators identified herein as “comic book rebels” have bucked the status quo of how comic books are published and the role creative people are relegated to in the traditional business structure of the industry. Yet Neil Gaiman continues to regularly work with established publishers like DC Comics. How, then, is he “rebel”? […]
Neil on AOL
Straight from AOL, here’s a transcript of Neil’s interview on February uh… 24 (?) 1996. I’ve done a bit of editing to clean it up and boldface the speakers’ names. OnlineHost: OnlineHost: *** You are in “The Odeon”. *** OnlineHost: DCOMLeib: Tonight’s event with SANDMAN creator NEIL GAIMAN will begin in three minutes. DCOMLeib: Tonight’s […]
Radio Interview with Neil Gaiman
To The Best Of Our Knowledge, broadcast May 31, 1995 A production of The Ideas Network, University of Wisconsin INTRODUCTION Neil Gaiman: I remember when I was about seven, somebody gave me books of American comics. They were just the most wonderful, alien things. Everything about them was strange. I was perfectly willing to believe […]
Review of a Neil Gaiman Reading
This file courtesy of Aron Wallaker – wallaker@vnet.ibm.com August 23/94 The Beguiling presented Neil Gaiman at the Bathurst Street Theatre in an even to raise funds for The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Representatives were on hand from both the Canadian and US branches of the CBLDF distributing information and selling CBLDF merchandise. The evening […]