Neil Richard Gaiman
() [1] (born 10 November 1960 [2]) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. His notable works include The Sandman
comic series, Stardust
, American Gods
, Coraline
, and The Graveyard Book
. Gaiman's writing has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the 2009 Newbery Medal. The extreme enthusiasm of his fans has led some to call him a "rock star" of the literary world. [3]
He lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, [4] [5] [6] in an "Addams Family house". [7] He is divorced with three children: Michael, Holly, and Madeleine. Their mother is Mary McGrath. [8]
In June 2009, during the Q&A at an AIDS fundraising event they were doing together, the songwriter and performer Amanda Palmer (best known for her band, The Dresden Dolls, and her debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer
) and Gaiman stated that they were dating. [9] [10]
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Early life
Gaiman's family is of
Polish Jewish origins; his great-grandfather emigrated from
Antwerp before 1914
[11] and his grandfather eventually settled in the
Hampshire city of
Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores.
[12]
His father,
David Bernard Gaiman,
[13] [14]
worked in the same chain of stores;
his mother, Sheila Gaiman (
née
Goldman), was a pharmacist. He has two younger sisters.
After living for a period in the nearby town of Portchester, where Neil was born in 1960, the family settled in 1965 in the
West Sussex town of
East Grinstead. Gaiman lived there for many years, from 1965-1980 and again from 1984-1987.
[15] Gaiman was educated at several
Church of England schools, including Fonthill School (East Grinstead),
Ardingly College (1970-74), and
Whitgift School (Croydon) (1974-77).
[16]
Journalism, early writings, and literary influences
As a child and a teenager, Gaiman grew up reading the works of
C.S. Lewis,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Michael Moorcock,
Ursula K. Le Guin,
Lord Dunsany and
G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fan of
science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as
Samuel R. Delany,
Roger Zelazny,
Robert A. Heinlein,
Harlan Ellison,
H. P. Lovecraft,
Thorne Smith, and
Gene Wolfe.
In the early 1980s, Gaiman pursued
journalism, conducting
interviews and writing
book reviews, as a means to learn about the world and to make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. He wrote and reviewed extensively for the British Fantasy Society.
[17] His first professional short story publication was "Featherquest", a fantasy story, in
Imagine Magazine in May 1984, when he was 23.
[18]
In 1984, he wrote his first book, a biography of the band
Duran Duran, as well as
Ghastly Beyond Belief
, a book of quotations, with
Kim Newman. He also wrote interviews and articles for many British magazines, including
Knave
. As he was writing for different magazines, some of them competing, and "wrote too many articles", he sometimes went by a number of pseudonyms: Gerry Musgrave, Richard Grey, "along with a couple of house names".
[19]
In the late 1980s, he wrote
Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
in what he calls a "classic English humour" style. Following on from that he wrote the opening of what would become his collaboration with
Terry Pratchett on the
comic novel Good Omens
, about the impending
apocalypse.
[20]
Comics
After forming a friendship with comic book writer
Alan Moore, Gaiman started writing comics, picking up
Marvelman
after Moore finished his run on the series. Gaiman and artist
Mark Buckingham collaborated on several issues of the series before its publisher,
Eclipse Comics, collapsed, leaving the series
unfinished. His first published comic strips were four short
Future Shocks
for
2000 AD
in 1986-7. He wrote three graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long-time friend
Dave McKean:
Violent Cases
,
Signal to Noise
, and
The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch
. In between, he landed a job with
DC Comics, his first work being the limited series
Black Orchid
.
[21]
Gaiman has written numerous comics for several publishers. His award-winning series
The Sandman
tells the tale of
Morpheus, the
anthropomorphic personification of
Dream. The series began in 1989 and concluded in 1996: the 75 issues of the regular series, along with an illustrated prose text and a special containing seven short stories, have been collected into 11 volumes that remain in print.
In 1989, Gaiman published
The Books of Magic
(collected in 1991), a four-part mini-series that provided a tour of the mythological and magical parts of the
DC Universe through a frame story about an English teenager who discovers that he is destined to be the world's greatest wizard. The miniseries was popular, and sired an ongoing series written by
John Ney Rieber.
In the mid-90s, he also created a number of new characters and a setting that was to be featured in a title published by
Tekno Comix. The concepts were then altered and split between three titles set in the same continuity:
Lady Justice
,
Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man
, and
Teknophage
.
[22] They were later featured in
Phage: Shadow Death
and
Wheel of Worlds
. Although Neil Gaiman's name appeared prominently on all titles, he was not involved in writing of any of the above-mentioned books (though he helped plot the zero issue of Wheel of Worlds).
Gaiman wrote a semi-autobiographical story about a boy's fascination with
Michael Moorcock's anti-hero
Elric
for
Ed Kramer's anthology
Tales of the White Wolf.
In 1996, Gaiman and
Ed Kramer co-edited
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
. Nominated for the
British Fantasy Award, the original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by
Tori Amos,
Clive Barker,
Gene Wolfe,
Tad Williams, and others.
Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling Gaiman said “One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on
Sandman
, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I’m writing novels I’m painfully aware that I’m working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like
The Golden Ass
. And you go, well, I don’t know that I’m as good as that and that’s two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like — I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun.”
[23]
In 2009, Gaiman wrote a two-part
Batman story for DC Comics to follow
Batman R.I.P.
It will be called "
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" a play off of the classic Superman story "
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" by
Alan Moore.
[24] [25] [26] He will also be contributing a twelve-page Metamorpho story drawn by
Mike Allred for
Wednesday Comics, a weekly newspaper-style series.
Novels
In a collaboration with author Terry Pratchett (best known for his series of
Discworld novels), Neil Gaiman's first novel
Good Omens
was published in 1990. In recent years Pratchett has said that while the entire novel was a collaborative effort and most of the ideas could be credited to both of them, Pratchett did a larger portion of writing and editing if for no other reason than Gaiman's scheduled involvement with
Sandman
.
[27]
The 1996 novelization of Neil Gaiman's teleplay for the BBC mini-series
Neverwhere
was his first solo novel. The novel was released in
tandem with the television series though it presents some notable differences from the television series. In 1999 first printings of his fantasy novel
Stardust
were released. The novel has been released both as a standard novel and in an illustrated text edition.
American Gods
became one of Gaiman's best-selling and multi-award winning novels upon its release in 2001.
[28]
In 2005, his novel
Anansi Boys
was released worldwide. The book deals with
Anansi ('Mr. Nancy'), a supporting character in
American Gods
. Specifically it traces the relationship of his two sons, one semi-divine and the other an unaware Englishman of American origin, as they explore their common heritage. It hit the
New York Times
bestseller list at number one.
[29]
In late 2008, Gaiman released a new children's book,
The Graveyard Book
. It follows the adventures of a boy named Bod after his family is murdered and he is left to be brought up by a
graveyard. It is heavily influenced by
Rudyard Kipling's
The Jungle Book
. As of late January 2009, it has been on the
New York Times Bestseller children's list for fifteen weeks.
[30]
As of 2008, Gaiman has several books planned. After a tour of China, he decided to write a non-fiction book about his travels and the general mythos of China. Following that, will be a new 'adult' novel (his first since 2005's
Anansi Boys
). After that, another 'all-ages' book (in the same vein as
Coraline
and
The Graveyard Book
). Following that, Gaiman says that he will release another non-fiction book called,
The Dream Catchers
.
[31]
Film and screenwriting
Gaiman wrote the 1996
BBC dark fantasy
television series Neverwhere
. He cowrote the screenplay for the movie
MirrorMask
with his old friend
Dave McKean for McKean to direct. In addition, he wrote the localized English language script to the
anime movie
Princess Mononoke
, based on a translation of the Japanese script.
He cowrote the script for
Robert Zemeckis's
Beowulf
with
Roger Avary, a collaboration that has proved productive for both writers.
[32] Gaiman has expressed interest in collaborating on a
film adaptation of the
Epic of Gilgamesh.
[33]
He was the only person other than
J. Michael Straczynski to write a
Babylon 5
script in the last three seasons, contributing the season five episode "
Day of the Dead".
Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of
Nicholson Baker's novel
The Fermata
for director
Robert Zemeckis, although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made
The Polar Express
and the Gaiman-
Roger Avary written
Beowulf
film.
Several of Gaiman's original works have been optioned or greenlighted for film adaptation, most notably
Stardust
, which premiered in August 2007 and stars
Robert De Niro,
Michelle Pfeiffer and
Claire Danes, directed by
Matthew Vaughn. A stop-motion version of
Coraline
was released on 6 February 2009, with
Henry Selick directing and
Dakota Fanning and
Teri Hatcher in the leading voice-actor roles.
[34]
In 2007 Gaiman announced that after ten years in development
the feature film of
Death: The High Cost of Living
would finally begin production with a screenplay by Gaiman that he would direct for Warner Independent.
Don Murphy and
Susan Montford are the producers, and
Guillermo del Toro is the film's executive producer.
[35] [36]
Seeing Ear Theatre performed an audio play of "
Snow, Glass, Apples," Gaiman's retelling of
Snow White, which was published in the collection
Smoke and Mirrors
in 1998.
Neil's 2009 Newbery-Medal winning book
The Graveyard Book
will be made into a movie, with Neil Jordan being announced as the director during Gaiman's appearance on
The Today Show
, 27 January 2009.
Blog
In February 2001, when Gaiman had completed writing
American Gods
, his publishers set up a promotional web site featuring a
weblog in which Gaiman described the day-to-day process of revising, publishing, and promoting the novel. After the novel was published, the web site evolved into a more general Official Neil Gaiman Website.
[37]
Gaiman generally posts to the blog several times a week, describing the day-to-day process of being Neil Gaiman and writing, revising, publishing, or promoting whatever the current project is. He also posts reader emails and answers questions, which gives him unusually direct and immediate interaction with fans. One of his answers on why he writes the blog is "because writing is, like death, a lonely business."
[38]
The original
American Gods
blog was extracted for publication in the
NESFA Press collection of Gaiman miscellany,
Adventures in the Dream Trade
.
To celebrate the 7th anniversary of the blog, the novel
American Gods
was provided free of charge online for a month.
Personal life
Gaiman maintains friendships with several celebrities outside the comic book and science fiction fields, including:
- singer/songwriter/performer Amanda Palmer, whom he is currently dating [39]. He collaborated on an art book released as a companion piece to her debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer
[.]
- photographer Kyle Cassidy, with whom he collaborated on the book "Who Killed Amanda Palmer".
- comedic fantasy author Terry Pratchett, with whom he collaborated on the novel Good Omens
(it is not uncommon to see Terry Pratchett in the acknowledgements in Gaiman's books, and Gaiman in Pratchett's).
- singer/songwriter/performer Stephin Merritt, who has written music and lyrics for a stage musical of Coraline
and with whom he is collaborating on a "mystery project".
- singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton, whom he has joined in performances on stage on several occasions. [40]
- singer Thea Gilmore. [41]
- actor/comedian Lenny Henry, a fan of Black Orchid who pitched the idea that eventually became Neverwhere
to Gaiman [42].
- Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman, who appear as 'themselves' in Gaiman's short story "The Facts In The Case Of The Departure Of Miss Finch" which was included in his Fragile Things
collection, having initially appeared in the English/UK edition of Smoke and Mirrors
. Ross plays himself in Gaiman's short film A Short Film About John Bolton, and Gaiman appears in Ross's documentary In Search of Steve Ditko
. Goldman co-wrote the screen adaptation of Gaiman's novel Stardust
.
- illusionist Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller, who has mentioned Gaiman on his Free FM
radio show, and appeared in the Gaiman-written "Day of the Dead" episode of Babylon 5
.
- director Terry Gilliam, whom Pratchett and Gaiman teased by agreeing to sell him a film option for Good Omens
for one groat. [43]
- writer and director Roger Avary, who has worked with Neil on both Beowulf
and Black Hole
. The two met while Avary was developing the Sandman film at Warner Brothers. [44]
- author Kim Newman, helping develop the outline for (and originally planning to coauthor) his Anno Dracula
series. Gaiman was also thanked in the back of the first novel in the series. [45]
- author Diana Wynne Jones, whom he met at a conference. They have been friends and fans of each others' work since then. Wynne Jones dedicated her YA sci-fi/fantasy novel Hexwood
to Gaiman. Gaiman has acknowledged that the premise of American Gods was inspired in part by Wynne Jones's children's book Eight Days of Luke
.
- Science-fiction writer Michael Swanwick, with whom he traveled to China. [46]
He was also close to the late science-fiction author
Douglas Adams, whose
biography Gaiman wrote.
Friendship with Tori Amos
One of Gaiman's most commented-upon friendships is with the musician
Tori Amos, a
Sandman
fan who became friends with Gaiman after making a reference to "Neil and the Dream King" on her 1991 demo tape, and whom he included as a character (a talking tree) in
Stardust
.
[47] Amos also mentions Gaiman in her songs, "Tear in Your Hand" ("If you need me, me and Neil'll be hangin' out with the dream king. Neil says hi by the way")
[48], "Space Dog" ("Where's Neil when you need him?")
[49], "Horses" ("But will you find me if Neil makes me a tree?")
[50], "Carbon" ("Get me Neil on the line, no I can't hold. Have him read, 'Snow, Glass, Apples' where nothing is what it seems")
[51] , and "Not Dying Today" ("Neil is thrilled he can claim he's mammalian, 'but the bad news,' he said, 'girl you're a dandelion').
[51]. He also wrote stories for the tour book of
Boys for Pele
and
Scarlet's Walk
, a letter for the tour book of
American Doll Posse
, and the stories behind each girl in her album
Strange Little Girls
. Amos penned the introduction for his novel
Death: the High Cost of Living
, and posed for the cover. She also wrote a song called "Sister Named Desire" based on his
Sandman
character, which was included on his anthology,
Where's Neil When You Need Him?
.
Neil Gaiman is
godfather to Tori Amos's daughter Tash,
[53] and wrote a poem called "Blueberry Girl" for Tori and Tash.
[54] The poem has been turned into a book by the illustrator
Charles Vess.
[55] Gaiman read the poem aloud to an audience in San Francisco on 5 October 2008 during his book reading tour for
The Graveyard Book
.
[56] It was published in March 2009 with the title,
Blueberry Girl
.
S. Alexander Reed has written about the
intertextual relationships between Gaiman's and Amos's respective work. Reed does close readings of several of Gaiman's allusions to Amos, arguing that the reference to Amos happens as the texts expand and broaden their focus, and that Amos serves to disrupt the linear flow of the narrative. He reads this disruption in terms of psychoanalyst
Jacques Lacan's idea of the
mirror stage, arguing that the mutual referentiality serves to create an ideal vision of the reader-as-fan that the actual reader encounters and misrecognizes as themselves, thus drawing the reader into the role of the devoted (and paying) fan. The essay also contains a fairly thorough list of known references in both Gaiman's and Amos's work.
[57]
Litigations
In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by
Todd McFarlane to write a single issue of
Spawn
, a popular title at the newly created
Image Comics company. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman,
Alan Moore,
Frank Miller, and
Dave Sim each write a single issue.
In issue #9 of the series, Gaiman introduced the characters
Angela,
Cogliostro, and
Medieval Spawn. Prior to this issue,
Spawn was an assassin who worked for the government and came back as a reluctant agent of Hell but had no direction. In Angela, a cruel and malicious angel, Gaiman introduced a character who threatened Spawn's existence, as well as providing a moral opposite. Cogliostro was introduced as a mentor character for exposition and instruction, providing guidance. Medieval Spawn introduced a history and precedent that not all Spawns were self-serving or evil, giving additional character development to
Malebolgia, the demon that creates Hellspawn.
As intended (and legally allowed)
[58], all three characters were used repeatedly throughout the next decade by Todd McFarlane within the wider Spawn universe. In papers filed by Neil Gaiman in early 2002, however, he claimed that the characters were jointly owned by their scripter (himself) and artist (McFarlane), not merely by McFarlane in his role as the creator of the series.
[59] [60] Disagreement over who owned the rights to a character was the primary motivation for McFarlane and other artists to form Image Comics (although that argument related more towards disagreements between writers and artists as character creators).
[61] As McFarlane used the characters without Gaiman's permission or royalty payments, Gaiman believed his copyrighted work was being infringed upon, which violated their original, oral, agreement. McFarlane initially agreed that Gaiman had not signed away any rights to the characters, and negotiated with Gaiman to effectively 'swap' McFarlane's interest in the character
Marvelman [62] (McFarlane believes he purchased interest in the character when
Eclipse Comics was liquidated; Gaiman is interested in being able to continue his aborted run on that title) but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's creations entirely. The presiding Judge, however, ruled against their agreement being work for hire, based in large part on the legal ruling that "copyright assignments must be in writing."
[63]
The 24 February 2004 ruling ultimately upheld a district court ruling in October 2002
[64] granting joint ownership of the characters to Gaiman and McFarlane. On the specific issue of Cogliostro, presiding Judge John Shabaz proclaimed "The expressive work that is the comic-book character Count Nicholas Cogliostro was the joint work of Gaiman and McFarlane—their contributions strike us as quite equal—and both are entitled to ownership of the copyright".
[65]
This legal battle was brought by Gaiman and the specifically-formed Marvels and Miracles,
LLC, which Gaiman created in order to help sort out the legal rights surrounding Marvelman (see
the ownership of Marvelman sub-section of the Marvelman article). Gaiman wrote
Marvel 1602
in 2003 to help fund this project.
[66] All of Marvel Comics' profits for the original issues of the series went to Marvels and Miracles.
In 2009, Marvel Comics purchased Miracleman.
[67]
Gaiman is a major supporter and board member of the
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
[68]
Awards
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- Gaiman received a World Fantasy Award for short fiction in 1991 for the Sandman
issue, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (see Dream Country
).
- He has won the Comics Buyer's Guide
Award for Favorite Writer for the years 1991-1993, and received nominations from 1997-2000. His work on The Sandman
was awarded the Favourite Comic Book Story for 1991 and 1994.
- Gaiman was awarded the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Defender of Liberty award in 1997. [69]
- Good Omens
was nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1991 [70]
- Stardust
was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 1999 [71], and the illustrated version won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature 1999. [72]
- In 2000, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Book [73] and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative. [74]
- American Gods
won the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2002 [75], the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2002 [75], the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2002 [77] and the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel 2001. It is among the most-honored works of fiction in recent history. [78]
- Coraline
won the Hugo Award for Best Novella 2003, the Nebula Award for Best Novella 2003, the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book 2003 [79] and the Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers 2003. [80]
- In 2004, his short story "A Study in Emerald" won another Hugo (in a ceremony the author presided over himself, having volunteered for the job before his story was nominated). Also in 2004, The Sandman: Endless Nights
won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative and The Sandman: Season of Mists
won the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario.
- In 2005, Marvel 1602
won the Quill Book Award for Graphic Novels. [81]
- Anansi Boys
won him a second Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2006, as well as both the British and Locus Fantasy Awards for Best Novel [82]. The book was also nominated for a Hugo Award, but Gaiman asked for it to be withdrawn from the list of nominations, stating that he wanted to give other writers a chance, and it was really more fantasy than science fiction. [83]
- Gaiman has won 19 Eisner Awards for his comics work.
- From the comics fans in the rec.arts.comics* newsgroups, Gaiman won the Squiddy Award for Best Writer five years in a row from 1990 to 1994. He was also named Best Writer of the 1990s in the Squiddy Awards for the decade.
- In 2007 he was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award. [84]
- In 2007 Gaiman was presented with the Comic-Con Icon award at the Scream Awards.
- In January 2009, Gaiman's The Graveyard Book
was awarded the Newbery Medal. [85] It received the Best Novel Hugo on August 9 [86] [87]. In May, the audio version won two Audies: Children's 8-12 and Audiobook of the year. [88] In June 2009, it was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel. [89]
References in popular culture
- In SimCity 2000
, if the player queries a library and click "Ruminate" an article about cities' personalities appears which was written by Gaiman. The article is also available on the official Gaiman website. [90]
- In the science-fiction television series Babylon 5
, one of the races (The Gaim) is named in homage to Gaiman, and they are similar in appearance to the protagonist of Gaiman's "Sandman" comics.
Literary allusions
Gaiman's work is known for a high degree of allusiveness.
[91] Meredith Collins, for instance, has commented upon the degree to which his novel
Stardust
depends on allusions to Victorian fairy tales and culture.
[92] Particularly in
The Sandman
, literary figures and characters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on
G.K. Chesterton, both
William Shakespeare and
Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from within
A Midsummer Night's Dream
. The comic also draws from numerous mythologies and historical periods. Such allusions are not unique to
Sandman
.
Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators.
[93] However, Smith's viewpoint is in the minority: to many, if there is a problem with Gaiman scholarship and intertextuality it is that "... his literary merit and vast popularity have propelled him into the nascent comics canon so quickly that there is not yet a basis of critical scholarship about his work."
[94]
David Rudd takes a more generous view in his study of the novel
Coraline
, where he argues that the work plays and riffs productively on
Sigmund Freud's notion of
the Uncanny, or the
Unheimlich
.
[95]
Though Gaiman's work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in
Joseph Campbell's
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
,
[96] Gaiman says that he started reading
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
but refused to finish it: "I think I got about half way through
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
and found myself thinking if this is true — I don’t want to know. I really would rather not know this stuff. I’d rather do it because it’s true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."
[97]
Bibliography
See also
- List of fantasy authors
- List of horror fiction authors
- List of science fiction authors
Notes
- Author Name Pronunciation Guide - Neil Gaiman
- ''Comics Buyers Guide'' #1636 (December 2007); Page 135
- Author Neil Gaiman Inspires Starstruck Fans, Columbia Daily Spectator, Oct. 1, 2008
- Dream weaver
- A writer's life: Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman - Biography
- Interview - Neil Gaiman
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/04/all-questions-all-time.html
- Two Lovers
- Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman -- Live from New York City
- Gaiman, Neil. "journeys end", ''Neil Gaiman's Journal'', 16 January 2009
- Everyone has the potential to be great
- Everyone has the potential to be great
- "Head Bars Son Of Cult Man.", ''The Times'', London, 13 August 1968, p.2 col. c. (convenience link), Alternate.
A headmaster has refused the son of a scientologist entry to a preparatory school until, he says, the cult "clears its name". The boy, Neil Gaiman, aged 7, (...) Mr. David Gaiman, the father, aged 35, former South Coast businessman, has become in recent weeks a prominent spokesman in Britain for scientology, which has its headquarters at East Grinstead. - "East Grinstead Hall of Fame - Neil Gaiman", East Grinstead Community Web Site.
- "Neil Gaiman". Exclusive Books.
- Neil Gaiman - About Neil
- Neil Gaiman - About Neil
- Neil Gaiman - Rumour control
- ''Science Fiction Weekly Interview''
- The Vertigo Encyclopedia
- Teknophage-neilgaiman.info
- Ogline, Tim E.; "Myth, Magic and the Mind of Neil Gaiman", ''Wild River Review'', 20 November 2007.
- CCI: DC One Weekend Later - Gaiman on "Batman", Comic Book Resources, 27 July 2008
- SDCC '08 - More on Gaiman-Batman with Dan DiDio, Newsarama, 27 July 2008
- DC at Comic-Con ’08 Mike Marts, Newsarama Video, 27 July 2008
- "L Space - Words from the Master"
- American Gods wins a Hugo!
- "There's a first time for everything", Neil Gaiman's journal, 28 September 2005
- "Beyond Tea", Neil Gaiman's journal, 19 November 2008
- "From Las Vegas", Neil Gaiman's journal, 6 November 2008
- Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary: Shaping Beowulf's story, video interview with stv.tv
- He Is Legend
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/
- Neil Gaiman on Stardust and Death: High Cost of Living!
- The best film of 2006 was...
- Official Neil Gaiman Website
- Neil Gaiman's journal, 2/11/2008
- Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman -- Live from New York City
- "Thank You Mancunians"
- "On Hallowe'en the Old Ghosts Come..."
- "Gaiman Interrupted: An Interview with Neil Gaiman (Part 2)" conducted by Lawrence Person, Nova Express, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 2000, page 2.
- Neil Gaiman has lost his clothes
- http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061350160
- Anno Dracula: The Background
- Gaiman - Journal"
- Tori Amos, "Tear in Your Hand," ''Little Earthquakes''
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/312/2/31/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/378/3/28/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/234/1/26/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/220/1/30/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/220/1/30/albums
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/11/listening-to-unresolving.asp
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/07/blueberry-girls.html
- http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/185
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/10/chapter-six-in-san-francisco-yesterday.html
- Reed, S. Alexander. "Through Every Mirror in the World: Lacan's Mirror Stage as Mutual Reference in the Works of Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos." ''ImageTexT'' 4.1. [1]
- See Judge Shabaz's ruling for the legal reasoning: "As a co-owner, McFarlane was not violating the Copyright Act by unilaterally publishing the jointly owned work, but, as in any other case of conversion or misappropriation, he would have to account to the other joint owner for the latter's share of the profits."
- Listen to the "Oral Argument," List of Documents in case: 03-1331 : Gaiman, Neil v. McFarlane, Todd. Accessed 22 September 2008
- See also the official decision by Judge John Shabaz in The United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Nos. 03-1331, 03-1461. Accessed 22 September 2008
- See Khoury, George, ''Image Comics: The Road To Independence'' (TwoMorrows Publications, 2007), ISBN 1-893905-71-3
- See Judge Shabaz's ruling: "A tentative agreement was reached that... Gaiman would exchange his rights in Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro for McFarlane's rights in another comic book character, Miracleman."
- Judge Shabaz, Official ruling, as per "Schiller & Schmidt, Inc. v. Nordisco Corp., 969 F.2d 410, 413 (7th Cir. 1992)"
- "Gaiman in Stunning Victory over McFarlane in Spawn Case: Jury Finds for Gaiman on All Counts," by Beau Yarbrough, 3 October 2002. Accessed 22 September 2008
- See Judge Shabaz's ruling for similar statements on Angela and Medieval Spawn.
- "Marvel's "1602" Press Conference," by Jonah Weiland, 27 June 2003. Accessed 22 September 2008
- CCI: Cup O Joe
- "Neil Gaiman Talks Sandman, CBLDF on NPR," 19 September 2003. Accessed 22 September 2008
- Neil Gaiman Receives Defender of Liberty Award
- 1991 Award Winners & Nominees
- 1999 Award Winners & Nominees
- Mythypoeic Awards - Winners
- http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo2000.html
- http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Stoker2000.html
- 2002 Award Winners & Nominees
- 2002 Award Winners & Nominees
- Locus Award Winners by Category
- Honor roll:Fiction books
- Locus Award Winners by Category
- http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Stoker2003.html
- The Quill Awards: The 2005 Awards
- 2006 Award Winners & Nominees
- Hugo words...
- The Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award
- Gaiman's blog, 26 January 2009
- The Hugo Awards : 2009 Hugo Award Winners
- http://twitter.com/TheHugoAwards
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/finally-not-bridesmaid-actually.html
- http://www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl%20e&id=194&Itemid=3
- http://neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Essays/Essays_By_Neil/SIMCITY
- See particularly Rodney Sharkey, James Fleming, and Zuleyha Cetiner-Oktem's articles in ''ImageTexT'''s special issue on Gaiman's work: [1].
- Collins, Meredith. "Fairy and Faerie: Uses of the Victorian in Neil Gaiman's and Charles Vess's Stardust." ''ImageTexT'' 4.1. [1]
- Smith, Clay. "Get Gaiman?: PolyMorpheus Perversity in Works by and about Neil Gaiman." ''ImageTexT'' 4.1. [1]
- A Special Issue on the Works of Neil Gaiman, Introduction. [1]
- Rudd, David "An Eye for an 'I': Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and the Question of Identity" ''Children’s Literature and Education'' 39(3), 2008, pp. 159-168 [1]
- See Stephen Rauch, ''Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth'', Wildside Press, 2003
- The Wild River Review, "Interview with the Dream King"
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A headmaster has refused the son of a scientologist entry to a preparatory school until, he says, the cult "clears its name". The boy, Neil Gaiman, aged 7, (...) Mr. David Gaiman, the father, aged 35, former South Coast businessman, has become in recent weeks a prominent spokesman in Britain for scientology, which has its headquarters at East Grinstead. - "East Grinstead Hall of Fame - Neil Gaiman", East Grinstead Community Web Site.
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- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/312/2/31/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/378/3/28/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/234/1/26/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/220/1/30/albums
- http://everythingtori.com/go/galleries/view/220/1/30/albums
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/11/listening-to-unresolving.asp
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/07/blueberry-girls.html
- http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/185
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/10/chapter-six-in-san-francisco-yesterday.html
- Reed, S. Alexander. "Through Every Mirror in the World: Lacan's Mirror Stage as Mutual Reference in the Works of Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos." ''ImageTexT'' 4.1. [1]
- See Judge Shabaz's ruling for the legal reasoning: "As a co-owner, McFarlane was not violating the Copyright Act by unilaterally publishing the jointly owned work, but, as in any other case of conversion or misappropriation, he would have to account to the other joint owner for the latter's share of the profits."
- Listen to the "Oral Argument," List of Documents in case: 03-1331 : Gaiman, Neil v. McFarlane, Todd. Accessed 22 September 2008
- See also the official decision by Judge John Shabaz in The United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Nos. 03-1331, 03-1461. Accessed 22 September 2008
- See Khoury, George, ''Image Comics: The Road To Independence'' (TwoMorrows Publications, 2007), ISBN 1-893905-71-3
- See Judge Shabaz's ruling: "A tentative agreement was reached that... Gaiman would exchange his rights in Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro for McFarlane's rights in another comic book character, Miracleman."
- Judge Shabaz, Official ruling, as per "Schiller & Schmidt, Inc. v. Nordisco Corp., 969 F.2d 410, 413 (7th Cir. 1992)"
- "Gaiman in Stunning Victory over McFarlane in Spawn Case: Jury Finds for Gaiman on All Counts," by Beau Yarbrough, 3 October 2002. Accessed 22 September 2008
- See Judge Shabaz's ruling for similar statements on Angela and Medieval Spawn.
- "Marvel's "1602" Press Conference," by Jonah Weiland, 27 June 2003. Accessed 22 September 2008
- CCI: Cup O Joe
- "Neil Gaiman Talks Sandman, CBLDF on NPR," 19 September 2003. Accessed 22 September 2008
- Neil Gaiman Receives Defender of Liberty Award
- 1991 Award Winners & Nominees
- 1999 Award Winners & Nominees
- Mythypoeic Awards - Winners
- http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo2000.html
- http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Stoker2000.html
- 2002 Award Winners & Nominees
- 2002 Award Winners & Nominees
- Locus Award Winners by Category
- Honor roll:Fiction books
- Locus Award Winners by Category
- http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Stoker2003.html
- The Quill Awards: The 2005 Awards
- 2006 Award Winners & Nominees
- Hugo words...
- The Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award
- Gaiman's blog, 26 January 2009
- The Hugo Awards : 2009 Hugo Award Winners
- http://twitter.com/TheHugoAwards
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/finally-not-bridesmaid-actually.html
- http://www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl%20e&id=194&Itemid=3
- http://neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Essays/Essays_By_Neil/SIMCITY
- See particularly Rodney Sharkey, James Fleming, and Zuleyha Cetiner-Oktem's articles in ''ImageTexT'''s special issue on Gaiman's work: [1].
- Collins, Meredith. "Fairy and Faerie: Uses of the Victorian in Neil Gaiman's and Charles Vess's Stardust." ''ImageTexT'' 4.1. [1]
- Smith, Clay. "Get Gaiman?: PolyMorpheus Perversity in Works by and about Neil Gaiman." ''ImageTexT'' 4.1. [1]
- A Special Issue on the Works of Neil Gaiman, Introduction. [1]
- Rudd, David "An Eye for an 'I': Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and the Question of Identity" ''Children’s Literature and Education'' 39(3), 2008, pp. 159-168 [1]
- See Stephen Rauch, ''Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth'', Wildside Press, 2003
- The Wild River Review, "Interview with the Dream King"