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Baseball Statistics Pornography

Mach5 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:48:11 -0800

Mariano's Gonna Cut You, and other stat-and-graph filled baseball analysis from Beyond the Boxscore. via the excellent Yankees blog at LoHud. 10 days to opening day! * Unless you are a Braves/Phillies fan.

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.

To the letter

Sparx — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:22:16 -0800

Comixfilter: Todd Klein discusses lettering choices for Sandman Comics writers and artist get a fair amount of press. But the letterer can make a huge amount of difference to a piece of comic art. Here's a recollection from the (almost) continous letterer of one of comics' major works.

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.

I hope one of them gets Rush to do the soundtrack...

jonson — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:44:13 -0800

National Geek Day. Neil "Sandman" Gaiman & Joss "Buffy" Whedon both have movies coming out this weekend; in honor of the nerd confluence of events, Time magazine conducted a joint interview with the two.

Neverwhere Comic Adaptation

Saellys — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:25:46 -0800

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.)

Morpheus promotes reading

dragonmage — Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:56:14 -0800

Sandman READ poster Anyone passing through libraries will have seen the series of READ posters, starring any number of actors, sports stars, musicians, and other celebrities. Everyone from Alex Baldwin to WWF wresllers to Yoda have been so honored.

Now you can add a comic character to that list. Neil Gaiman's creation of Morpheus, the Sandman, is now available as a poster. The artwork is by P Craig Russell, who was the artist for an issue of Sandman.

thatwhichfalls — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:40:23 -0800

The Vertigo Tarot by Dave McKean, illustrator of among many other good things the Sandman comics, was reissued in August. The cards, loosely based on characters from DCs Vertigo comic inprint, are among the most uneasily beautiful interpretations I've ever seen. The original set was in a limited edition of 5000 copies and is changing hands for suitably outrageous sums on ebay. The new edition (slightly smaller cards) retails around the $30 mark.