"
This Halloween, give somebody a scary book, to read. That's it. That's the idea. It's going to be a tradition." It's
an idea Neil Gaiman came up a year ago. It's called
All Hallow's Read, with a website and everything, which has
book recommendations of all sorts, plus
stickers, bookmarks, cards, and a small story you can print off, as well as
a poster contest for next year's event.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Oct 31, 2011 -
22 comments
Stephen Strange was an arrogant doctor, until a car accident damaged his hands, leading him try every cure possible. Eventually he made his way to the East, where the story progressed, and now he's
Doctor Strange, master of magic! His thrilling tale is
set to be the first Marvel superhero movie since
Marvel was purchased by Disney. But there has been much history behind the latest movie, including a period when
Guillermo del Toro was involved and wanted to include Neil Gaiman,
a draft script by Alex Cox (1990, 5.1 mb PDF;
review), and
a draft script by Bob Gale (January 21, 1986, 3.5 mb PDF;
review). Along with these incomplete attempts, there was
the 1978 Dr. Strange TV movie, which you can watch online (
full movie with Portuguese subtitles, or
YT playlist). If you'd like another take, head to 1992 for the direct-to-video movie
Doctor Mordrid. Depending on who you ask,
it's a more or
less entertaining/accurate take (warning: spoilers) on Dr Strange. Modrid is
also online.
posted by filthy light thief
on Aug 9, 2011 -
34 comments
A Beijing graphics design house makes with the stylish and creepy in a Neil Gaiman adaptation of his tongue-in-cheek mini-story,
"Nicholas Was."
posted by Kitteh
on Dec 23, 2010 -
9 comments
Way Down Under The Ground. The
tale of
Orpheus's journey through the Underworld has been retold so many times, on
stage, in
film. Tennessee Williams saw it as
Orpheus Descending.
Neil Gaiman took the myth on in the
pages of
Sandman. Today, we have
Hadestown, a new album from
Anais Mitchell. Mitchell recorded "Hades & Persephone" for a
previous release, but
Hadestown is a fully-realized
folk opera, five years in the
making, a collaborative effort featuring contributions from
Greg Brown,
Ani Difranco,
The Haden Tripletts and Justin Vernon (the voice of
Bon Iver).
[more inside]
posted by grabbingsand
on Mar 9, 2010 -
18 comments
One day ago,
Neil Gaiman wrote the beginning of a story, which was
retweeted by BBC Audiobooks America as the
first of a thousand or so tweets that would compiled and edited to become an audiobook. People are
still contributing, and
BBCAA's blog has four scenes compiled (
1,
2,
3,
summary of scenes 1-3, and
4), for a total of 175 tweets. When 1,000 or so tweets are logged, they'll be edited into a script, and produced in a studio to make the final audiobook, which will be released for free on BBCAA's website. This isn't the first game of
exquisite corpse played via twitter that made a piece to be refined and presented in some way.
The first Twitter opera was
one of a few recent "gimmicks" to garner attention for the
Royal Opera House (
twitter opera feed,
ROH twitter feed,
ROH blog). The result, Twitterdammerung, was
given a decent review by opera critic
Igor Toronyi-Lalic.
posted by filthy light thief
on Oct 14, 2009 -
32 comments
Neil Gaiman's latest work,
The Graveyard Book, is a kind of undead Jungle Book, with a man-child being raised by various ghosts and ghouls rather than animals. He's been the whole thing a chapter at a time on each stop of his American promotional
tour, and posting the
videos online (and
blogging about it of course), which means that with tonights reading the entire thing will be available online.
posted by Artw
on Oct 8, 2008 -
38 comments
The novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman is being offered for free in its entirety at the Harper Collins website (only viewable using HarperCollins' BrowseInside system). It was put up in celebration of the seventh birthday of
Neil Gaiman's blog. Which is appropriate since Neil Gaiman
started his blog to chronicle the process of turning the text of American Gods into a physical book.
[via the man himself, natch]
posted by Kattullus
on Feb 29, 2008 -
25 comments
Anybody remember
Slow Bob In The Lower Dimensions? Turns out the short video, once a mainstay of early 90s late-night MTV, was created by one
Henry Selick, director of, oh,
The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone, and the forthcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman's
Coraline. A lot more on Selick; also, higher quality, alternate format (but slower loading) versions are available
here.
posted by kimota
on Jul 29, 2007 -
13 comments
The first issue of the comic book adaptation of Neil Gaiman's
Neverwhere was released yesterday. Mr. Gaiman is credited as a "consultant." So far, the story is fairly intact, but it's the visual element that deviates from the novel--characters look nothing like they were described, and don't even resemble the
old BBC miniseries. And for someone accustomed to the phenomenal artwork seen in most of Gaiman's previous graphic novels (which included several adaptations of his short stories),
Neverwhere seems downright bland. If a feature film follows in the same vein as this adaptation, will Gaiman pull an Alan Moore and
refuse all royalties? (Go easy on me; it's my first post.)
posted by Saellys
on Jun 23, 2005 -
32 comments
