The Sandman read along podcast
Sam Hodges wrote about the Novello Festival in today’s Charlotte Herald; unfortunately the article is not online. An excerpt:[Neil] Gaiman, author of the cult-favorite “Sandman” comics series, has created perhaps the biggest buzz of this year’s festival. Like [John] Grisham, he limits public appearances. But once he committed to Novello, he began talking up the […]
Reported by Leigh Weimers in yesterday’s Mercury News:Cult hero alert: Neil Gaiman, creator of the Sandman comic book series who’s now a novelist and screenwriter, comes to town Oct. 16 for a free afternoon Q and A session at San Jose State University and a paid-admission reading/book signing on campus that night. Details from the […]
The following uncredited article appeared in the 25th September edition of Design Week:Although Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman have been working together for 20 years, The Wolves In The Walls (published by Bloomsbury, priced 12.99) is only their second picture book together. The first was the more light-hearted The Day I Swapped My Dad For […]
Okay, let’s try this again without me missing the end link tag and IE crashing utterly for two hours (and nope, Coranto and Netscape don’t get along). Jeff Kapalka reported the following Endless Nights review in the September 28th Syracuse Post Standard“The Sandman: Endless Nights” **** (out of 4), DC Comics; $24.95. You can tell […]
And there may be more than this out there, but Factiva has gone slightly mad in the past few days and is being rather uncooperative in it’s new interface. Tom Russo reported the following review of Neverwhere in the September 28th Boston Globe:Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, author of the popular “Sandman” graphic novels, created and […]
Posted sans pictures. Scott Brown reported the following feature and interview for Entertainment Weekly on October 3rd, with additional reporting by Rachel Lovinger.Ask any God, Demigod, or divine manifestation, and they’ll all tell you the same thing: The tough part is the omnipresence. Neil Gaiman knows this better than any of them, especially today. Because […]
Yet more mentions in this week’s Dirda On Books, including the following:Michael Dirda: …I reviewed American Gods –favorably but with a number of cavils and reservations. But Neil and I became friends anyway.. Tee hee hee. ### And Tara is right. Her Neverwhere site may be only one out there at this point, and it’s […]
Laura Miller posted the following feature to Salon today. Forgive the length, but rather than have the nonsubscribers go thru the ad pages, thought it’d just be easier to post this full text:I stumbled into the strangely familiar and familiarly strange universe of Neil Gaiman’s writing through a side entrance of sorts, the novel Neverwhere, […]
Richard Vine reviews Alisa Kwitney’s Sandman, King of Dreams for the 20 September The Guardian:Don’t fear the reaper – it’s her brother you’ve got to worry about. That’s the message of Neil Gaiman’s essential comic book, The Sandman, which gets a loving, exhaustive and informed tribute in The Sandman: King Of Dreams, from assistant editor […]
Although the citation notes that this initially appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on September 17th, this Karen MacPherson piece was picked up online by the Bremerton, Washington Sun.British-born author Neil Gaiman has always set unusual career goals for himself. As a child, Gaiman wanted to be either a werewolf or a writer when he grew […]