The Sandman read along podcast
From the August 3rd Syracuse Post Standard, Jeff Kapalka’s very positive review of the Jill Thompson manga: What do you think of when you think of a picture of The Grim Reaper? Usually a guy, right? Skeletal. Wears long, black robes. Carries a scythe. Wrong. Longtime readers of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed “Sandman” series know that […]
And the word from Borders is:We will start giving out passes (like numbers) at 1pm. They will be colors, 50 for each color, rather then numbers. The first 200 will see him read, those after that will have to listen to him only. Again, expect a large turnout (keep in mind this is the first […]
There’s an interview with Neil at LostLevels.org, where Neil mentions that his favourite video game of all time was the text-based Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy game, which you can now play online as a Java-based web game! I have some very fond memories of this game myself.
From the August 8th Entertainment WeeklyWhat would bring best-selling children’s author Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler) and Evil Eye artist Richard Sala together? A colorful and quirky story about a yeti lurking outside a little boy’s window (above), of course, part of the third and latest installment in Art Spiegelman’s genre-bending comics anthology, Little Lit: […]
And you can thank Gwynedd for this one, as it didn’t show up in my searches:The Jeff Zaleski interview with Neil has been posted on Publishers Weekly’s website. That silence you are hearing is the absence of the word “Who?” being said when the question of “Do you have any books by Neil Gaiman?” is […]
The Quilt has it’s own page on Michelle’s corner of cyberspace. As well it should. ### Gnooks recommends what authors you should read next based on three authors you have previous enjoyed. It also attempts to map all the writers in the world in relation to each other. And this is the map for Neil.
From the ALA:The American Library Associations (ALA) Graphics department is pleased to introduce a new ALA Graphics poster featuring the Sandman (Lord of Dreams) in his library with the phrase A book is a dream you hold in your hand. The poster from Neil Gaiman, creator of the Sandman series, features original artwork by illustrator […]
“I can say that smiling, because I haven’t just had to make a $100 million movie for $4 million, but Dave was about three foot taller than he is now, and had hair.” And that’s only one of the numerous quotable lines in Rob Worley’s rather length piece about the MirrorMask presentation at Comicon. The […]
From a children’s books round up in the August 4th People magazine:The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean. In a mildly scary tale, a girl’s confidence grows after she detects strange sounds in the house and persuades her family to help dispel the intruders. While that is a summation of […]
SciFi Wire has posted more details on MirrorMask. ### From Comicon Pulse:New York Times best-selling author and comic book legend Neil Gaiman’s long-awaited Marvel Knights limited series 1602 is just a little more just 3 weeks away, set to debut on August 13th. Featuring art by the ORIGIN team of Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove […]