At the very top of the Barnes and Noble SF,Fantasy & Horror list for their picks of the best of 2001, amongst books like Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned and Jonathan Carroll’s The Wooden Sea, was American Gods. Upon rereading Sharon Bosley’s review of the book in B&N Explorations, this is not at all […]

DEREK TSE, “ENTER SANDMAN’S WORLD.” , The Toronto Sun, 11-11-2001, pp S4. So far, talented British comics writer Neil Gaiman’s crowning achievement has been his groundbreaking Sandman series. Published by DC Comics from 1987 to ’96, The Sandman chronicled the adventures of the title character, the flawed, God-like master of our dreams. Also known as […]

Robin Wallace-Crabbe, “Marooned by the past.” , The Australian, 10-27-2001, pp B11Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (Hodder Headline, 504pp, $29.95) is his best, principally because there’s something true beneath its froth of sci-fi invention. This truth is the presence of ancient gods of the kind Richard Wagner liked, who accompanied travellers to the new world and […]

From Rocco Versaci’s article, “How comic books can change the way our students see literature: One teacher’s perspective.” A final example of a title that would certainly engage our students in middle and high school English classes is Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, collected in ten graphic novel collections. During its seventy-five issue run, Sandman had the […]

Apologies for updates being few and far between – like myself, my ISP appears to be having a breakdown. Not fun. If you haven’t already, go pick up or order Heroes. Just be prepared to have to pick up copies for anyone you show it to as well. It’s that sort of comic. On a […]

A few items from Newsarama: Full transcript of the Marvel/Gaiman press conference on Oct 24th. Press release, same conference. Note on the hardcover Endless books.