The Sandman read along podcast
Elizabeth Ward reviews Jon Scieszka’s collection of essays, Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys’ Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys, for the May 8th Washington Post. The book is part of Scieska’s Guys Read project, which locates books that “guys” of all ages will enjoy. Very cool stuff. Then again, judging from the selected book […]
There’s a longish article in the May 4th Oregonian about what Henry Selick is up to at Vinton Studios. It’s not Coraline, at least not just yet, but still if you’re interested in animation, it’s a good read.
Yahoo! has recently launced a site – video.search.yahoo.com – that searches for videos available online. Considering the dearth of appearances (Fox Movie Channel notwidthstanding), you might be amused how many results there are for Neil, and the odd places they have appeared.. (The more advanced version of the search is here.)
Yes, I know, these are late – been recovering. Apologies. 1602 has been nominated for a 2005 Harvey Award for Best New Series. The HarperCollins AuthorTracker notes that MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture was put on sale yesterday. And there are very interesting articles on graphic novels in the April 28th […]
Ed Douglas interviews Matthew Vaughn at Superhero Hype about his upcoming projects, icnluding directing Stardust.
The Price by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, in Creatures of the Night (Dark Horse Books), has been nominated for the Eisner for Best Short Story. Yes, I know this was already posted in the journal, but it’s a fairly important sort of award, and should be noted elsewhere too. The full list of nominees […]
Voices of Youth Advocates‘s list of Best SF, Fantasy and Horror 2004 includes the anthologies Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, The Fairy Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm and New Magics: An Anthology of Today’s Fantasy. (thanks janni)
With thanks to batwrangler for providing the text. From the excellent Guardian‘s overview on the best in current children’s literature, dated 31 March:The greatest stories ever told…What’s the story? Classics for every ageAge 0-5…Neil Gaiman (words) and Dave McKean (pictures) form the mostdistinctive partnership working in picture books (The Wolves in the Walls, The Day […]
From the March 29th Chicago Sun-TimesFans of graphic novels will know the name Neil Gaiman right off the bat. The English-bred, U.S.-based writer is best known as the creator of Sandman, the monthly cult DC Comics horror series that first appeared in 1988 and has been described by Norman Mailer as “a comic strip for […]
From the March 15th Booklist:Blaschke, Jayme Lynn. Voices of Vision. Apr. 2005. 224p. Univ. of Nebraska/Bison, paper, $14.95 (0-8032-6239-6). 813. Anthologies of mainstream author interviews are common enough, but similar resources covering sf creators rarely see print, except online. Blaschke, fiction editor for RevolutionSF.com, fills something of a vacuum, then, with this outstanding collection of […]