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A story of a thousand tweets begins with a single twit

filthy light thief — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:35:44 -0800

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.

The Gernsback Continuum

Artw — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:58:08 -0800

The 2009 Hugo awards have been announced at Worldcon. Winners include Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book for best novel, Ted Chiang getting best short story and Elizabeth Bear getting best novelette. Best Related Book was snagged by MeFi's own jscalzi. The award for best semiprozine, which was to be scrapped, has been saved, this year being won by Weird Tales - a surprise upsets as it's main problem was that it had essentially become the Locus magazine award for best Locus Magazine. As well as the Hugos other awards such as the Prix Aurora award for best Canadian SF and the Chesley Awards for SF art have been announced, and Cory Doctorow accepted the Prometheus award for Libertarian SF. Convention reporter provides continuing coverage (the convention still has another day to run) and Starshipsofa spin-off Sofanauts has an excellent series of podcasts with regular Amy H. Sturgis and others reporting from the con.

"That would not kill Dracula!"

Artw — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:23:59 -0800

Vampires are over, argues Neil Gaiman. (Via the Guardian, who rather oddly suggest the similarly over-exposed zombies as a replacement)

Kimota!

any portmanteau in a storm — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:35:03 -0800

Thanks to a combination of publishers going out of business and rights disputes Miracleman is probably the best superhero comic you never got the chance to read (previously on the blue). That looks set to change as today at SDCC, Marvel comics has announced that they now own the rights to the title.

I guess this post makes it Thursday comics...

Artw — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:25:57 -0800

Wednesday Comics, DC's spectacular new oversize anthology featuring characters from Batman to Adam Strange and Kamandi in one page installments of serialized stories, launched yesterday to much acclaim from the internet. USA Today will be reprinting the Superman story for the duration of the comics 12 week run.

...I didn't actually read the link...

Artw — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:06:48 -0800

It’s only natural that if you wish to present yourself as a well-read person, a certain degree of complete bullshit is required. There’s no shame in lying about what you’ve read. There’s only shame in getting caught. Then you look like a doofus, and an illiterate one at that... How to lie about books.

It was a Dark and Silly Night

Chocolate Pickle — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:38:28 -0800

It was a Dark and Silly night -- a cartoon written by Neil Gaman and drawn by Gahan Wilson. I wanna know the rules to "Jello Tag".

Heroes of UK comics

Artw — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:40:37 -0800

Leo Baxendale, Hunt Emerson Neil Gaiman, Melinda Gebbie, Brendan McCarthy, Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Posy Simmonds, Bryan Talbot - Paul Gravett's Heroes of UK Comics

Of Neil Gaiman and Infinite Canvas

filthy light thief — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:59:02 -0800

The Day the Saucers Came was originally published in 2006, in the (now defunct) EZine Spider Words 1, no. 2. Neil Gaiman has read the story aloud, on occasion. In December 2008, the story was made into a poster by a Finnish artist. That poster was then transformed into a fancy Flash presentation on Microsoft's Infinite Canvas ("A Funky Side Project from Microsoft Live Labs"). Infinite canvas was originally the theory that digital comics had no limit, credited to Scott McCloud's book, Reinventing Comics. As noted in comments on the Gaiman comic, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey's Tarquin Engine (previous) predates this by four years or so. And oddly enough, back in September 2008, there was an interview with Scott McCloud about Google Chrome entitled "The Infinite Canvas," referring to Chrome as a mechanism to further the possibilities for breaking the format limitations for comics. Then again, Microsoft's Touch Wall was demo'd back in May 2008, but as a very large physical touch-screen instead of a Flash-based presentation method.

The Coraline Boxes

Sailormom — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:21:36 -0800

The makers of the soon to be released movie Coraline put together 50 unique boxes that were mailed to 50 different bloggers. Each box contained items that were used in the making of the movie along with letters and photographs. So far, 22 of those bloggers have posted about the contents of the box they received. ::1::2::3::4::5::6::7::8::9::10::
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Man arrested for possession of explicit manga

peacheater — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:54:09 -0800

A man -- Christopher Handler -- has been arrested in Iowa for possession of explicit yaoi and lolicon manga. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is acting as a special consultant on the case. Mr. Handley's case began in May 2006 when he received an express mail package from Japan that contained seven Japanese comic books. That package was intercepted by the Postal Inspector, who applied for a search warrant after determining that the package contained cartoon images of objectionable content. Unaware that his materials were searched, Handley drove away from the post office and was followed by various law enforcement officers, who pulled him over and followed him to his home. Once there, agents from the Postal Inspector's office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, Special Agents from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, and officers from the Glenwood Police Department seized Handley's collection of over 1,200 manga books or publications; and hundreds of DVDs, VHS tapes, laser disks; seven computers, and other documents. Though Handley's collection was comprised of hundreds of comics covering a wide spectrum of manga, the government is prosecuting images appearing in a small handful. Neil Gaiman comments on the case. (via a post on his journal)

Centerfold

cjorgensen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:30:47 -0800

We had a tale of time travel getting a man out of a speeding ticket. (Previously) Now we have a man trying to pay a bill with a spider drawing --not a speeding ticket this time. (He mentions time travel as well.) Today he sold the spider on eBay for $10k. J. Giles unavailable for comment. Neil Gaiman thinks selling 7-legged spiders is fine if they are not sold in quantity.

Here’s sand in your eye

Artw — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:58:42 -0800

Neil Gaiman celebrates 20 years since the first publication of Sandman. Yes it’s that old. Io9 lists five ways in which Sandman changed the comics world.

Neil Gaiman is creepy, but not a doll

Caduceus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:50:11 -0800

Neil Gaiman helps Jonathan Coulton perform the song "Creepy Doll." [slyt] Sure, it's not Bike Hero, but still pretty awesome if you like Coulton or Gaiman.

Storytime with Neil Gaiman

Artw — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:03:07 -0800

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.

The Bedlam Cometh

chuckdarwin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:24:05 -0800

A film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award winning novella, Coraline will be out (in 3D) in early 2009. [Previously] Adapted and directed by Henry Selick Dakota Fanning ... Coraline (voice) Ian McShane ... Mr. Bobinski (voice) Teri Hatcher ... Coraline's Mother / Other Mother (voice) Keith David ... The Cat (voice) Jennifer Saunders ... Miss Forcible (voice) Dawn French ... Miss Spink (voice) John Hodgman ... Coraline's Father / Other Father (voice) Music will be by They Might Be Giants

R Comics Gud?

Artw — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:38:26 -0800

The 100 best comic book runs as voted for by the readers of Comics Should be Good. Notes

Neil Gaiman's American Gods

Kattullus — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:25:06 -0800

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]

Photoshopped pictures of people with mouths instead of eyes

Kattullus — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:00:15 -0800

Photoshopped pictures of people with mouths instead of eyes via Neil Gaiman who may or may not have pioneered the concept with his nightmarish creation The Corinthian.

You should read Gunnerkrigg Court

Lentrohamsanin — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:38:18 -0800

Gunnerkrigg Court is a lovely and strange webcomic by Tom Siddell. While its scenario bears a passing resemblance to Harry Potter (magic school, main character with a strange destiny, etc.), there's something quite different going on here. Chapter One, for instance, deals with how to get an anthropomorphic shadow back to its forest home, using only a box of discarded robot parts and a young girl's initiative. And that's just the beginning. Need a more trustworthy endorsement than mine? Neil Gaiman likes it.

Who Is Steve Ditko?

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:03:21 -0800

Co-creator of Spider-Man, Steve Ditko is famous for weird, distinctive art, his 1966 departure from Marvel Comics, and granting very few interviews in the course of his decades-spanning career, preferring to let creations such as The Creeper, the Objectivism-inspired Mr. A, and Squirrel Girl speak for him.
Okay, Squirrel Girl not so much.
Jonathan Ross turns the spotlight on the artist in the BBC4 documentary, In Sea rch of Steve Dit ko. Did they find him? Well, that's The Question, isn't it?

Smell Like Alan Moore's Swamp Thing

jonson — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:10:01 -0800

Are you tired of NOT smelling like characters in Neil Gaiman books?? Well thank Morpheus, just like Alex Burgess in The Wake, your long nightmare is at an end thanks to this collection of Gaiman-inspired perfumes & colognes.

Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft

Kattullus — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:33:02 -0800

Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft is a 45-minute BBC radio documentary: "Geoff Ward examines the strange life and terrifying world of the man hailed as America's greatest horror writer since Poe. During his life, Lovecraft's work was confined to lurid pulp magazines and he died in penury in 1937. Today, however, his writings are considered modern classics and published in prestigious editions. How did such a weird, wild and ungodly writer get canonised? Among the writers considering his legacy are Neil Gaiman, ST Joshi, Kelly Link, Peter Straub and China Mieville." ST Joshi, a biographer of Lovecraft, has an essay up on The Scriptorium. Wikisource has an extensive collection of his writings, including not only his most famous novels and short stories, but also essays, letters, poetry and legal documents. He is buried in the city of his birth, Providence, Rhode Island, where he does eternal lie, even though someone made an unsuccessful attempt to exhume him in 1997.

and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee

chuckdarwin — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:56:42 -0800

Paramount does Neil: Gaiman's book (illustrated by Charles Vess) is being made into a film called Stardust. You can watch the trailer or read the first chapter online. The film is directed by Matthew Vaughn, who doesn't exactly have a strong fantasy background. Cross your fingers, Gaimanites.

Readers Digest

Silki — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:31:35 -0800

You are what you eat? How about eating Gingerbread House on the Rock, Neverwhere Soup, Coraline-au-prune, and having ambitions to eat the Compleat Works of Neil Gaiman. I agree with his taste in books, but I thought people grew out of that paper-eating phase by their teenage years (except when meals are prepared by a Sous-Chef with an Inkjet).