From the January 26th Publisher’s Weekly: An unusual anthology that will star a number of prominent authors as lyricists for a “lit rock” group was signed by Brooklyn’s small Soft Skull Press. It’s called As Smart as We Are, after a line in one of the songs, and will offer work by 17 writers, including […]

Paul Cole reported the following on the 15 Feb Sunday Mercury:Legends IITHE premise is simple. Invite the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy to revisit the worlds they’ve created and offer a new slant on the stories that have already made them best-sellers. Hence the second helping of Legends finds Raymond E. Feist back […]

The January 25th Star Tribune carried Eric Hanson’s feature on Coraline and Neil, amongst other things. The story began, appropriately, with a child. A little girl would arrive home from school, climb into her father’s lap and weave tales from the loose threads of her imagination and dreams. He found them disturbing but fascinating. In […]

From Aardwolf Publishing:As you may know, Dave Cockrum has been very ill and his friends are putting together a tribute book and auction to help Dave and his wife Paty. The Uncanny Dave Cockrum Tribute will be an art portfolio celebrating the works of Dave Cockrum and the characters he created. Edited by Clifford Meth, […]

Don’t think this has been on journal.Scott just let me know that Borders had posted Neil’s interview with Gene Wolfe around the 14th. *** And SilverBullet Comics reprinted the press release about 24 Hour Comics Day, and the associated collection, edited by Scott McCloud, that is being published.

From the January 22 Dirda on Books column in the Washington Post: This past weekend I was up in New York for the Baker Street Irregulars conference, which is usually held earlier in the month, closer to the January 6 that is presumed to be Sherlock Holmes’s birthday. As a result of the late date, […]

Charles de Lint reported the following review of Endless Nights in the February 2004 Fantasy and Science Fiction:Has it really been seven years since Gaiman finished off his lengthy Sandman saga? Though I suppose, once you start counting up the projects in between, which include fascinating books such as Neverwhere, American Gods, and Coraline, you […]

Mark Graham reviewed Alisa Kwitney’s The Sandman: King of Dreams in the January 2nd Rocky Mountain News:In the first years of the 1960s, I was obsessed with high school football. I also loved comic books. On normal days, with three hours of practice and the fact that I actually did study, I didn’t have much […]

Charles Shaar Murray reviewed Endless Nights in the 6 January Independent.Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, published in monthly comic-book form between 1988 and 1996 and still going strong in graphic-novel anthologies, was a prodigious publishing event. It was characterised by Norman Mailer, no less, as ‘a comic strip for intellectuals’. After 2,000 pages and 10 graphic novels, […]