The Sandman read along podcast
From the June 2006 Wired: About a decade ago, Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman comic strips in the 1940s and ’50s, published one of the great Odd Books of our time. In An Unlikely Prophet, reissued in paperback this spring, Schwartz writes that Superman is real. He is a tulpa, a Tibetan word for a […]
ABC Brisbane, Queensland, has posted an audio interview with Neil and Linda Jaivin on their website. If/when the Triple J interview is made into anything playable, it will probably be posted here or here. You have to love a radio station that apologizes for not playing the explicit version of a song. Or that gives […]
From the May 16th Variety: NBC Universal’s specialty film arm Focus Features is jumping into the animation game, picking up world rights to the stop-motion pic Coraline from Laika Entertainment, the Oregon-based toon house owned by Nike co-founder Phil Knight. Pic — based on the book by Neil Gaiman, and toplining the voice talent of […]
From the May 11th Hello (which has photos of the set on their website):We are used to seeing Sienna Miller, who is famous for her boho chic style, looking cool in Ugg boots, skinny jeans and gypsy wraps. The 24-year-old looked very different when she was snapped in period costume on the set of her […]
Most of this information is from what is currently listed in Bowker’s Global Books in Print, but it is supplemented from the various Amazon sites. Please note that the release dates (as well as many other things) are likely to change. Primary Titles The Graveyard Book (listed in Books in Print as Graveyard):Hard cover (Cloth […]
Feature – TIME Europe magazine From the May 1st TIME Europe: An adult in one hand, a book to be signed in the other, the children troop into the theater to ask questions of a highly important nature. Their target is the writer Neil Gaiman, whose fantasy book for kids The Wolves in the Walls […]
Wolves in the Walls (Theater) – Reviews From the 23rd April Sunday Times:The Wolves in the Walls. Lyric Hammersmith **** As well as being an entertaining piece of new theatre, this adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s children’s story is an exciting new departure for British theatre. This is the first show from the […]
Babycakes a webcomic adaptation of Neil’s short story. Very nicely done.
Wolves in the Walls (Theater) – Feature From the 19th March Times Online: Pity the wolf. Was ever a creature so maligned? The last British wolf was killed in the Scottish Highlands by MacQueen, stalker to the Laird of Mackintosh, after it had savaged two children. That was in 1743. Yet, more than 250 years […]
Commentary – Guardian From the 3rd March Guardian (and the 25th March Irish Times: I can still remember how excited everyone was, 17 years ago, by the arrival of the Batman film. Frank Miller’s story of an ageing Batman coming out of retirement, The Dark Knight Returns, had, along with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s […]