Okay, maybe not, but this Feb 9th episode of Something Positive made me chuckle:
The webcomic itself was an answer to the various reviews around the place that referred to Coraline as “Tim Burton’s Coraline”. For Neil Gaiman’s take on the matter (and where I got the link to the webcomic from) see this Gaiman Journal post including this:
“It was irritating when people started asking me why the advertising said “From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas“, and wasn’t it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry’s name, I had little patience with it.)”
What is irritating, given that Coraline had it’s US release this month is that we have to wait until May to see it. It’s like the old days of US release way in advance of UK all over again.
But it looks very, very good anyway, no matter when I get to see it.
Sun, Feb 15, 2009
Books, Film, TV and radio