Neil Gaiman Community

neil_gaiman @ 2008-06-08T11:36:00

2008-06-08T16:39:28Z

Hello, I have just started reading Neil Gaiman books and have fallen in love with his writing technique and plotting style.

What books would you say I have to read?

Thank you!
Jasmina

Good Omens hardback?

2008-05-31T14:02:41Z

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me...

Today I picked up a copy of Good Omens in hardback (second hand, £2 no less!). I sincerely doubted it was a first edition but the inside says 1990 so I knew it wasn't a reprint.

In any event, I tracked down this website: http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/terrypages/tpotherworks.htm#omens

Which has it there, it's: Guild Publishing, 12,000 copies, (CN 6407)

In any event, at the top it says that in the Corgi paperback they altered the text a bit? I was wondering if anyone knew if it was just the Gollancz first edition that was unaltered or if my version is as well? I don't feel up to comparing it line by line with my paperback...

If this makes any sense I'm amazed.

I'd be so chuffed if this was a different version as I only really bought it for the novelty of the picture of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett on the back ^_^

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neil_gaiman @ 2008-05-30T19:01:00

2008-05-30T11:03:23Z

Just wondering, is anyone else as borderline-hyperventilation-thrilled as I am that so many of Neil's novels are suddenly popping up as movies? :DDD Neverwhere has finally been optioned as a new film (a proper one, not the substandard TV adaptation), and by Weinstein no less, the company that did Project Runway, Hannibal Rising, and Rambo; Sandman's Death (love her) is being featured in Death and Me, directed by Guillermo del Toro, I think. Extra love, whoopee!; and Coraline is coming out next February. I wonder if anyone's doing American Gods.

And is it me, or does Neil have a thing for little boys growing up in graveyards/ making friends with other little boys who are dead? This short story from Fragile Things floats to mind, and so does the Sandman issue (Season of Mists, I think) where the dead come alive and there's a little boy stuck in his boarding school for the hols and suddenly all the dead schoolboys are back and he gets killed by a bunch of ghost bullies and gets nursed by this adorable dead boy named Paine who he eventually runs off with. Love that little episode.

(Update: Found out that Paine and Rowland were featured as the Dead Boy Detectives in several other graphic novels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Boy_Detectives <3 Does anyone have scans anywhere?)

oh, yay, it's almost confirmed....

2008-05-28T20:21:36Z

Gaiman to write new Who?
People
May 27, 2008 • Posted By Jeremy Bement
According to columnist Rich Johnston at Comic Book Resources, Neil Gaiman has already been asked by forthcoming Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat to write an episode of the show in 2010.

Johnston also mentions a couple of rumors flying around that have not yet been comfirmed nor denied. To read the entire article, click here.

http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkEEAuZpElovwuKmjy&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle

Doodles by Neil

2008-05-13T17:18:53Z

National Doodle Day Auctions:

One

Two

As part of NF Awareness month, celebrity doodles will be available for auction on eBay from May 8th - 18th.

These doodles have a very important aim: the funds they raise will benefit NF, Inc., an organization dedicated to providing support to individuals and families affected by neurofibromatosis (NF).

Neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder that affects one in every 2,500 births. NF is more common than Cystic Fibrosis, Muscular Dystrophy and Huntington’s Disease combined. Funds raised from the Doodle Day auction will go to support education, advocacy, coalitions, and research for treatments and a cure.

He drew... A genie and Dream? They are going pretty high compared to some of the other ones.

question about another gaiman community

2008-05-07T14:31:55Z

Does anyone know why gaimanism was deleted?

I really liked that community. I also wonder if anyone archived the posts so they could give me a copy of my introduction which was in the community shortly before it disappeared, :S.

Guess The Book (and chapter)

2008-04-23T15:10:56Z

For this round I'm ramping up the difficulty level a bit what's the book and chapter where Neil wrote this paragraph:

Of course, "kind of simple" is a relative concept in a school where even the remedial classes would give both Stephen Hawking and Merlin the Magician nosebleeds. Still, I had learned enough to know that the place I was in now was a place of raw and unfocused magic. A "subspace" that worked more by the rules of a collective consciousness than by mechanistic principles.

A short Neil interview from Winter and Sky McCloud

2008-04-18T18:10:17Z

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16044

All bound for NYCC

2008-04-16T10:39:01Z

At more or less the last minute, I have decided to head up for the CBLDF benefit reading at NY ComicCon this Friday.

Will I have the pleasure of seeing any of you there?

54 Stardust icons

2008-04-07T21:40:28Z

54 Stardust Icons.

TEASERS:

but do the stars watch us?

neil_gaiman @ 2008-04-01T01:17:00

2008-04-01T08:18:06Z

I know this is an odd question, but what color is Door's hair? I seem to remember it being orange.

American Gods for Free

2008-02-29T23:05:00Z

In case you don't already know about it: http://tiny.cc/WRiXE

American Gods is online, for free, for the next month. Go read it if you haven't, and spread the link to friends if you have ^___^

It's to celebrate the seventh birthday of Neil's blog (which is awesome), and which book was voted for my the blog readers... Blog can be found here if you're interested, and is also available as a feed to your friends page!

Enjoy ^^

Guess Teh Book

2008-02-27T13:40:12Z

Old Bailey was not, intrinsically, one of those people put in the world to tell jokes. Despite the handicap he persisted in trying. He loved to tell shaggy-dog stories of inordinate length which would end in a sad pun although, often as not, Old Bailey would be unable to remember it by the time he got there. The only public for Old Bailey's jokes consisted of a small captive audience of birds, who, particularly the rooks, viewed his jokes as deep and philosophical parables containing profound and penetrating insights into what it meant to be human, and who would actually ask him, from time to time, to tell them another of his amusing stories.

seventh blogiversary

2008-02-09T16:41:14Z

Over at the journal, you may already notice a little change, though this year's Anniversary Present is yet to be unveiled as of this writing.

If you'd like to get on the blogiversary fun, post your own sidebar images of birthday hats, cakes, and/or noise makers photoshopped onto Neil (or Morpheus, or his other creations) in reply to this post. I'll pick the best ones throughout the weekend and put them up on the site. Here's a photoshop file to get you started.

Nemi, in the Metro this week.

2008-02-06T00:07:04Z

London Calling

2008-02-03T23:10:59Z

I've been a Sandman fan since I was 11, and always thought Daniel should have gotten more love since he's the actual Dream now.

Death & Dream

I designed their clothing to pay homage to little revelatory symbols about their characters.. Such as how the "Death" card in the Vertigo Tarot was holding a blue rose, and Daniel was often pictured with poppies (symbolic of dreams for its narcotic nature). This also obviously includes the ankh sigils, Daniel's emerald (as opposed to Morpheus' ruby), and the ruby sleeve design I always loved from his original costume. Toss in a dash of Visual Kei/Gothic Lolita (especially because I love those cute little EGL tophats) inspiration, and here we are. I've got tons of love for the classic 80's punk look, but I figure they'd want to update their wardrobes a bit since then.

Set in London because the Death film will be, and I always loved the view of the Houses of Parliament across the Thames.

AliceMeichi.com - Illustration Portfolio

neil_gaiman @ 2008-01-25T17:04:00

2008-01-25T23:06:34Z

Just so you all know.. Amazon.com has a deal right now where if you preorder a book, you get 5% off. I preordered "The Graveyard Book" in hardcover and while it only saved 61 cents, it's better than nothing.

Stardust

2008-01-25T21:13:42Z

Have just started 'Stardust'. The first thing that struck me was the way the style/feel of the text and the subject matter - the market/fair - reminds me of Bradbury's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'. Is Bradbury known as one of Gaiman's influences? Would make sense.

neil_gaiman @ 2008-01-24T20:05:00

2008-01-25T01:13:16Z

"This is the best Neil Gaiman community I found."
Good. If you searched them all and this is the one that gets the highest stamp of approval...Well, I guess that means I don't have to go through the effort of doing it myself.
But I'm taking you at your word on this, Weirdel.

neil_gaiman @ 2007-12-24T02:25:00

2007-12-24T08:26:18Z

Hey everyone! Happy Holidays, and with that! I come baring gifts! Muhaha!

The Other Father at his "work desk." ^^

The Other Mother and Father, mommy's mad about something. :)

And finally, the heroine of the book, Coraline with the Other Mother.

Hope you enjoy! I'm having a bit of a computer-incompetence problem. xD

L.P.E.

MAGICMONKEYFLA.LIVEJOURNAL.COM

2007-12-15T17:13:27Z

hi everyone! merry xmas! well, if you have a chance, go visit my newly updated tori amos journal! you'll love it! cya

neil_gaiman @ 2007-12-14T21:13:00

2007-12-15T03:19:29Z

So, i'm in Barnes and Noble today, looking over some books for a long flight I have tomorrow. And I see hardback copies of Fragile Things in a big stack by the register, marked "Bargain Priced" for $6.98, and I start flipping through the top one. And my heart stops.

Two of the copies in the stack were autographed. The Gaiman penstroke, clear as day, one in blue, one in purple. I bought both.

So what strange things do Pinoy fans do when Neil Gaiman comes over?

2007-11-30T12:42:16Z

They ask him to

(1) Assist in a magic trick; and

(2) Help in proposing to a girlfriend.

Stuff to check out:

My pics from Book of Dreams (Book launch & Writing awards by Fully Booked & Neil Gaiman)

Transcripts and audio recordings from Neil's various appearances in the Philippines

Azrael's video coverage of Book of Dreams

More Fanart!

2007-11-29T00:07:54Z

I don't know if this is really the right place to show y'all this stuff, but.. This is the best Neil Gaiman community I found, and there's no Coraline communities.. ^^

I've started to re-draw some of the stuff from the book, for my little Niece (11), who loves the book, she got it for Thanksgiving more or less (Christmas present-turned Thanksgiving present, you could say).. and so, here are some more from Coraline! ^^
I'm adding them here as links so I don't take up so much room on this comm, as I hope there will be more to add! :D

This is the Cat, because my Niece is never happy with the pictures in books.. ^^;

And this is the Other Mother by the table with the buttons.

This one was done for the part near the end, where the Other Father was turning "doughy" in the (basement)?

L.P.E.

How my boyfriend ruined my Neil Gaiman experience

2007-11-26T04:49:54Z

First, I was able to ambush Neil after his talk last Thursday.

Then we headed at El Centro last Saturday at 6:30 a.m. for the 9 a.m. reading and signing.

Then he started signing the Sandman collection that Jason bought for me…

…and as much as I wanted to hug him and schmooze while he was signing my book, Jason kept pulling me away. Hmph.

And this is him finishing his "dedication".

And this is me closing the book and thanking him. And then Neil says, “Read what I wrote.” Which he had to say like, three times because I was too busy digesting the fact that Neil was like, there.

So okay, I read it.

And this is what he wrote.

And this is what followed.

And then we gave him a copy of my great grandfather’s book, “A collection of stories by Lola Basyang.”

And this is me at the BBDO after party.

Apparently Jason has been talking to Neil Gaiman, Jaime Daez, the organizers of the Ad Congress, and a bagillion other people for the past three weeks to pull off this operation.

I’m a happy bunny who can proudly say I’ve kissed Neil Gaiman (although I have no photo proof, boo!), won my first bronze Araw Award, and got engaged to the most super awesome man in the world all in one day.

Now excuse me, I’m dead tired from four days of trying to sneak into talks, partying, laughing with Kite and the boys, and, well, everything else. Zzzz…