Tag Archive | "Neil Gaiman"

Marvelman taking a while to sort out. Tom Brevoort surprised.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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(From the published Marvelman Family’s Finest #1, July 2010 – variant cover by Dougie Braithwaite, posted on his Facebook. Still with the old, Marvel owned MM logo, nearly one year on, still no movement.) Okay, some latest on the attempts by marvel to get Marvelman back in print and finished. There’s a little background here, and [...]

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Neil Gaiman talks his Doctor Who episode

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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Neil Gaiman talks, in a spoiler free way, about the episode of Doctor Who he wrote, which will be going out in the UK this very Saturday (via Digital Spy):

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“Pencil-necked weasel”

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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I almost missed this until author Jeff VanderMeer pointed me in the direction of this City Pages site, but apparently Neil Gaiman was insulted – pretty much verbally abused actually – by some ridiculous Republican politician in Minnesota who clearly has no manners and no decorum or any ability to conduct himself in public in [...]

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The Moth presents Neil Gaiman

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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The Moth presents a good video with Neil Gaiman, recorded live at 27 Arts in New York in 2007 as part of PEN’s World Voices Festival (link via Wim):

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Strengthen the bookshelves – Absolute Sandman Volume 5…..

Saturday, March 12, 2011

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It appears DC have had a look at the accounts and realised that the dip in profits in 2010 may have had something to do with a complete lack of the very profitable high price point Absolute Sandman Volume for the first year since 2006. Absolute Sandman Volumes 1-4 appeared, one a year, from 2006-2009. [...]

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Gaiman on Piracy – “it’s people lending books”

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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Neil Gaiman, in his role as patron of The Open Rights Group, has recorded a video piece all about digital piracy and books (and by extension, Comics). The take away bit, the potentially contentious bit is this: “….. And that’s really all this is; it’s people lending books.” Those nice folks at Comic Alliance have transcribed [...]

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Congratulations Mr & Mrs Gaiman

Monday, January 3, 2011

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Seems like Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer were married last night. Congrats to the pair of them. (Via here and here)

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Gaiman and McKean get musical

Saturday, December 25, 2010

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The Sky at Night – no, it isn’t a video of Sir Patrick Moore talking astronomical bodies, it’s a musical collaboration between friends and regular collaborators Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman:

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Nicholas Was…..

Saturday, December 25, 2010

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39 Degrees North: Christmas Card 2010 from 39 Degrees North on Vimeo. Seasonal greetings from Neil Gaiman – his dark Christmas poem Nicholas Was has been adapted by a Beijjing motion/graphics design studio. And Neil’s impressed – as are we.

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Welcome, Cereal Convention

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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The first three volumes of the new editions of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman go on the racks today, nice new trade paperbacks (using the much restored artowrk and colouring from the Absolute Sandman editions) of Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll’s House and the short story collection Dream Country. Glancing inside Doll’s House I’m reminded of a [...]

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P. Craig Russell’s vision of Death in Action Comics

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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Paul Cornell blogs about the forthcoming issue 894 of Action Comics which not only features Neil Gaiman’s character Death making a rare appearance in the DC Universe but this lovely P. Craig Russell variant cover as well. (Yes, I hate variant covers as a concept, but it doesn’t mean I can’t occasionally enjoy looking at [...]

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British Fantasy Awards winners

Monday, September 20, 2010

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The British Fantasy Awards were announced over the weekend at Fantasycon, with Conrad Williams taking the August Derleth Fantasy Award/Best Novel for One, which I must confess I’ve not come across before. Best novella went to Sarah Pinborough for The Language of Dying (I’ve not read that one but have read Sarah’s recent novel from [...]

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Moore had the Simpsons, Gaiman gets Arthur….

Saturday, September 18, 2010

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Following a recent tradition of comic celeb cameos on popular animated series, Neil Gaiman is going to be immortalised on US kids TV show Arthur: From the press release: “This season, we’re hoping to empower our young viewers to go after their goals and dreams. Whether that means becoming a wheelchair basketball champion, or expressing [...]

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It’s a Book (Comic)…. and Books (Comics) are sharks….

Sunday, September 12, 2010

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Not comics, but this trailer to Lane Smith’s new book; It’s A Book just seemed to sum up so many of my feelings towards digital books/comics that I couldn’t resist putting it up. Plus, Lane Smith’s children’s books are wonderful things. (Lane Smith link via Superpunch) I honestly believe that books and comic collections are [...]

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More Sandman TV rumours… and Gaiman’s Doctor Who

Saturday, September 4, 2010

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Via Heidi at The Beat (after the original at The Hollywood Reporter)comes news of the oft-mentioned, oft-rumoured Sandman TV show: “The Sandman,” the Neil Gaiman-penned comic book series considered a seminal work in the medium, is in the early stages of being developed into a TV series. Warner Bros. TV is in the midst of acquiring [...]

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