Deepti Hajela’s Associated Press piece on Endless Nights is making the rounds, showing up on the websites ranging from the major (Canada’s CANOE; the New Orleans Times Picayune; and the Miami Herald), to the smaller markets (the Tacoma, Washington News Tribune, the Poughkeepsie, New York Journal, and the Attleboro, Massachusetts Sun Chronicle). And that’s just […]

Tim Clodfelter reported the following interview to the Winston-Salem Journal on September 21st.Writer Neil Gaiman is happy to see his British miniseries Neverwhere finally getting an official DVD release in the United States. “I think it actually got to the point where the bootlegs were one of the mainstays of eBay,” Gaiman said by phone […]

From Liane Hansen’s interview with Art Spiegelman about Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night, broadcast on NPR Weekend Edition on September 21st:…LIANE HANSEN: One example that is just delightful, and it’s two people who are well-known even outside, I think, the comic-novel world and the comics world, it’s one that’s done by […]

Heidi MacDonald covered the New York Is Book Country for Comicon Pulse. And I could use some help here. If people have posted to their journals (and would be willing to provide links for) their reports from the Saturday and Sunday things, I could use summaries. (and an early thank you to the people who […]

Deepti Hajela reported the following for the Associated Press today:NEW YORK (AP) – It’s a fan’s dream come true: the Sandman is back. Seven years after he stopped writing his ground-breaking, history-making comic book series, author Neil Gaiman has returned, once again telling stories about Morpheus, the King of Dreams, and his six siblings, collectively […]

From the “Children’s Books In Brief” section of today’s New York TimesTHE WOLVES IN THE WALLS. By Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. HarperCollins. $16.99. (Ages 5 to 8) The author and illustrator of the Sandman graphic novels collaborate on a semi-scary story about Lucy and her family, her old house and the wolves she […]

With many thanks to Laura Watkinson for all her work in translating this profile reported by Bart Holsters in De Morgen from the original Dutch! American Gods Original title: American Gods Translated by Hugo and Nienke Kuipers Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam, 524 p., 26.95. Coraline Original title: Coraline Translated by Henny van Gulik and Ingrid Töth Luitingh-Sijthoff, […]

Something to reiterate: My policy is always to remove articles posted here by request. It is doubly so with this, as National Public Radio is one of the last, best voices that we have available to us in the States. It’s a resource that is definitely worth both your attention, and support. End of caveat. […]

For those of you keeping score at home, Neil has been mentioned in (in no order of importance) USAToday, CNN, Forbes, the Village Voice, and the New York Times in the last four days. And the audio for his interview with Neal Conan on NPR’s Talk of the Nation will be available online after 6pm […]

From the DC Comics press release:September 10th, 2003 – DC Comics is the sponsor of the first-ever graphic novel block at the nation’s premier non-profit literary festival, New York Is Book Country, announced Paul Levitz, DC Comics’ President and Publisher. This year’s 25th anniversary festival will feature a Neil Gaiman special event and a limited […]