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How Dave McKean created those gorgeous Sandman covers before Photoshop

These days, you never really question how a comic book cover or book cover is made, because even if there are a variety of tools in use, they’re all going to be digital. When Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series debuted, it was before the days of Photoshop, yet artist Dave McKean created some incredibly striking covers using real art and real objects.

posted 12 December, 2012
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Yes, this is Doctor Who and Neil Gaiman having breakfast. I think I just wet the bed.

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posted 07 December, 2012
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Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who episodes will have Cybermen and Warwick Davis

Even though Cybermen have been used a hell of a lot in the last several seasons of Doctor Who, I’m always up for a Neil Gaiman penned episode of Who any day. So if it has Cybermen, whatever. But it will also have actor Warwick Davis… you know, that little fellow from Willow.

posted 08 November, 2012
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Concept art for the 1990s Sandman movie that never was

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is one of the most popular comic book series of the past 30 years, you would think that it would have been snatched up by Hollywood execs and spun off into an unrecognizable blockbuster franchise by this point. As it turns out, Gaiman actually met with Warner Bros. to pitch a film adaptation of his work back in early ’90s, but they just didn’t seem to get the sprawling narrative — in spite of some really lovely visual aids that had created by Jill Thompson.

San Diego Comic Con: Neil Gaiman announces he’s writing more ‘Sandman’

With Comic Con now more about movies and video games, it’s good to have some real, fantastic comic book news.

IHC Puppet Theater: Neil Gaiman meets Alan Moore

This is a little video that two friends of mine do with Puppet Neil Gaiman and Puppet Alan Moore. Well, today Neil Gaiman saw it and tweeted about it!!

Here’s the link to his tweet: https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/217665982875963393

posted 26 June, 2012
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Neil Gaiman reads a story for Ray Bradbury, “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury”

For your Sunday evening, listen to Neil Gaiman and his wife Amanda Palmer reading the story “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury”. Amazing.

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Neil Gaiman writes a one-page comic for some lucky guy to get tattooed on his back

Burton Olivier, a fan of novelist and comic book writer Neil Gaiman, wanted a special tattoo to cover his back, so he reached out to Gaiman to create one for him. Gaiman agreed, if Olivier would make a contribution to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Gaiman hired comic book artist David Mack to make the visual design, then composed the following poem:

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.

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All ten volumes of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman finally coming to one collection

DC is bringing out an all-ten-volumes-in-one-slipcase edition of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Gaiman writes, “I’m thrilled. You have no idea how long I’ve been asking DC to do one of these. (Er, about 16 years.)”

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Neil Gaiman’s amazing keynote address to the University of the Arts class of 2012

If you are in any sort of artistic or creative field, or you aspire to, you absolutely need to watch this video. Or if you just like Neil Gaiman. Or if you’re not a heartless bastard. Okay, that last part gets rid of most of you… including me. Damn.

Disney buys the movie rights to Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’

After the success of bringing Neil Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’ to the big screen, Disney has now acquired the rights to Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’, and has hired Coraline director Henry Selick to bring it to the big screen.

Creepy Neil Gaiman Christmas card of the day: “Nicholas Was”

IHCer James of 39 Degrees North made this creepy animated Christmas card last year that’s just as good this year. It’s a short animation of Neil Gaiman’s poem “Nicholas Was”.

posted 23 December, 2011
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Neil Gaiman to provide a narrative voice to an animated Bluntman and Chronic

So Kevin Smith is planning on doing a Bluntman and Chronic cartoon and both Smith and Jason Mewes felt they needed an “Alfred”, or an authoritative narrative voice of reason. So Mewes reaches out to Neil Gaiman on Twitter and Gaiman is all like “yeah sure”. Just like that.

posted 29 November, 2011
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Morning music: Neil Gaiman and wife performs music from Rocky Horror on Craig Ferguson

On Monday night, Neil Gaiman, his wife Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, Moby and Steven Merritt performed a cover of “Science Fiction Double Feature” from Rocky Horror Picture Show on Craig Ferguson. So much win in a compact package.

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