The Sandman read along podcast
From the October 1st Toronto Star: “Oddly enough.” He seems to say this quite a lot. During our interview, it’s something that pops up like a “however” or even an “um” while he chats. He says it as though the swirling mass of stuff coming out of Neil Gaiman’s head is not of his own […]
From the September 30th Globe and Mail: If you haven’t heard of Neil Gaiman yet, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll run across a product of his restlessly creative mind. He’s currently touring Canada with his latest novel, Anansi Boys, which traces the lives of the offspring of a recently deceased African god […]
From the October 1st Globe and Mail: ‘Stories are like spiders,” we are told in Neil Gaiman’s latest novel, “with all they long legs.” This is one of Gaiman’s most intriguing comments on the nature of storytelling — he’s made a few here and there — and it perfectly describes Anansi Boys, perhaps in more […]
Mirrormask coverage, as would be expected, is starting to ramp up, with television advertising starting to make appearances (although hopefully not just during the late night Adult Swim block Features on the film appear in the October issues of Animation Magazine and Starlog, and online at the Onion’s A.V. Club (pt 1, pt 2), and […]
From today’s DC Examiner: When he set out to write his latest novel, Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman traveled to Ireland to spend some quality time at an empty, gloomily Gothic haunted house owned by his musician pal Tori Amos. He finds a place like that much more inspiring for his fantasy and horror literature than, […]
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As averse as the studios are to relinquishing control, when the vision is big and the budget is small, as it was on MirrorMask, giving the filmmakers creative authority was the only way to get things done. Motivated by the success on DVD of the late Jim Henson’s fantasy films […]
From the September 25th Denver Post: Having made his name writing comics (the award-winning Sandman titles for DC), where literati are concerned, Neil Gaiman came out of left field, taking best-seller lists by surprise. Novels such as Neverwhere, Stardust and 2001’s American Gods have only added to his reputation. And his talent stretches to the […]
Jennifer Vineyard has posted a good-size interview with Neil as part of a Mirrormask feature at MTV.com. IGN Filmforce posted an exclusive clip from Mirrormask. The film was also discussed in the September 24th New York Post, the September 24th Salt Lake Tribune, and Horror.about.com Vancouver’s Straight.com has announced a contest to win two free […]
Lev Grossman posted a very long interview with Neil and Joss Whedon done as background for an article on geek culture for the October 3rd Time Magazine.
Anansi Boys has capsule reviews in publications including Newsday and the October Men’s Health, in which it is described by Matt Bean as: …A welcome quasi sequel to his novel American Gods, Anansi Boys is a comic examination of strained family dynamics made even more strained when a man discovers that his recently deceased deadbeat […]