Calling all Neil Gaiman fans! Baytor, a_lamat, chuy, et al., get out of your dreams! Make me a complete convert!

So far, I've only read the following Gaiman works:

- Preludes and Nocturnes
- Dream Country
- Season of Mists
- Fables and Reflections
- Endless Nights

Up to now, I haven't finished American Gods.

Any suggestions?

Over twenty years as a professional writer, Neil Gaiman has been one of the top writers in modern comics, and is now a best-selling novelist, whose most recent novel for adults, American Gods, was awarded the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX and Locus awards, while his children's novel Coraline, has been, like American Gods, an international bestseller and an enormous critical success.

2004 will see the release of Mirror Mask, a film written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean for the Jim Henson company and Columbia Tristar.

He was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman, which won Neil the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for best writer (1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994), best continuing series (1991, 1992 and 1993), best graphic album-- reprint (1991), and the Best Graphic Album -- New (1993); the Harvey Award for best writer (1990, 1991) and best continuing series (1992); and Sandman #19 took the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story (making it the first comic ever to be awarded a literary award). He has won many other awards including the 1993 Diamond Distributors 'Gem' award, voted on by comics retailers internationally, for expanding the marketplace of people who read comics.

Norman Mailer said of Sandman "Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time". Ten Sandman collections have appeared to date: "Preludes and Nocturnes", "The Doll's House", "Dream Country", "Season of Mists", "A Game of You", "Fables and Reflections", "Brief Lives", "Worlds' End", "The Kindly Ones" and "The Wake". Sandman the comic sold over a million copies a year. The collections have sold several million copies in paperback and hardback, and remain in print to this day. Warner Brothers have optioned Sandman for a movie, and the LA Times described it as "The greatest epic in the history of comic books" and "the best monthly comic book in the world".

Gaiman and Sandman made headlines when, at Sandman #75, Gaiman announced that the story that began in Sandman #1 was over, and DC Comics cancelled the title: at the time it was their best-selling monthly comic.

Gaiman's three-part series Death: The High Cost of Living was released by DC in February 1993, and was the single best-selling title for 'mature readers' ever, with the first issue alone selling over 300,000 copies. The three parts of the story were collected in late 1993 to widespread acclaim. Warner Brothers has optioned Death: The High Cost of Living as a movie, and contracted Gaiman to write the screenplay and to direct the film.

Death: The Time of Your Life, released in March 1997 in hardcover, won the GLAAD award for Best Comic of 1996.

Neil wrote Signal to Noise (illustrated by Dave McKean) a graphic novella about a dying film director serialised in The Face (June 1989 - Jan 1990), reprinted by Gollancz in July 1992, winner of an Eisner award as best graphic album, and broadcast in October 1996 as a radio play by BBC Radio Three, with a script by Gaiman, starring Warren Mitchell, and nominated for a SONY Radio Award. Other books with Dave McKean include Violent Cases (1987), and Black Orchid (1988). Violent Cases, a meditation on memory, evil, and kids' birthday parties, won the Eagle Award as Best Graphic Novel [1988], and Gaiman won the Eagle as Best Writer of American Comics [1990].

The first collection of Neil's SF series Miracleman, 'The Golden Age', appeared in 1992 from Eclipse (USA) and Harper Collins (UK).

Angels and Visitations (DreamHaven 1993), a hardcover small press collection of his short fiction, prose and journalism, issued to celebrate ten years as a professional writer, sold out its first printing of 10,000 almost immediately, and went back to press five times, before Gaiman and the publishers put it out of print. Copies now go on eBay for hundreds of dollars. One of the stories from the collection, 'Troll Bridge', and the collection itself, were nominated for World Fantasy Awards for 1994, and the book was awarded the 1994 International Horror Critics' Guild Award as Best Collection. His short stories, in prose and poetry, have been reprinted for the last six years running in the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror collection, and have also been picked up by the British Best New Horror collection.

Other comics work includes Mr Punch, from Victor Gollancz and DC Vertigo (November 1994), with art by Dave McKean, a dark tale of childhood and puppets; and Alice Cooper's The Last Temptation, an adaptation, by Gaiman, of the story he created around which Alice Cooper wrote his album of the same title.

Gaiman was co-originator, co-plotter and co-editor of the Utterly Comic Comic Relief Comic, which raised £45,000 for the UK Comic Relief charity in 1991.

Co-author, with Terry Pratchett, of Good Omens, a very funny novel about how the world is going to end and we're all going to die, which spent 17 consecutive weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller lists in 1990 and has gone on to become an international bestseller. It is under movie option to the Samuelson Brothers (Wilde; Carrington) and Renaissance Films. Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni wrote the script.

Other books include the cult hit Ghastly Beyond Belief [1985] and Don't Panic [1987], and, as editor, a book of poetry, Now We Are Sick [1991]. His essays have appeared in "Horror:100 Best Books", and "100 Great Detectives".

His six part fantastical TV series for the BBC, called Neverwhere, set in a strange world beneath London, was broadcast in Autumn 1996, and his novel, also called Neverwhere, set in the underground world of the television series, was released in the UK by the BBC and from Avon books in July 1997: it appeared in hardcover on a number of best-seller lists, including the LA Times list (at #3), the San Francisco Chronicle list and the Locus list (at #1). Rights to the book have been sold around the world. It was awarded the prestigious Julia Verlanger Award for best fantasy/SF novel published in France in 1999.

The film rights to Neverwhere have been bought by Jim Henson Productions, and Gaiman has written a draft of the script for the film.

In 1997 Gaiman wrote an episode for the final season of cult TV show "Babylon 5", 'The Day of the Dead', the only episode in the last three seasons not to have been written by the show's creator, J. Michael Straczynski.

In 1998 he wrote the English language script for Miyazaki's record-breaking Japanese film Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke), which Miramax released in 1999. Gaiman's script was praised by Roger Ebert and Janet Maslin and was nominated for a Nebula Award.

Gaiman's first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish, came out from White Wolf books in May 1997, illustrated by Dave McKean, and was listed by Newsweek as one of the best Children's Books of 1997.

In August 1999 Stardust was awarded the prestigious Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults.

His most recent collection of short fiction, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, came out from Avon in the autumn of 1998. It was nominated in the UK for a MacMillan Silver PEN award as the best short story collection of the year.

Gaiman's 1999 return to Sandman, the prose book The Dream Hunters, with art by Yoshitaka Amano, was awarded the Bram Stoker award for best illustrated by the Horror Writers Association, and was nominated for a Hugo award.

American Gods (2001) a novel for adults, appeared on many best of the year lists, was a New York Times Bestseller in both hard and paperback, and won the Hugo, Nebula, SFX, Bram Stoker, and Locus Awards. It was nominated for many other awards, including the World Fantasy Award, and the Minnesota Book Award.

Two Plays For Voices (2002), an audio adaptation of two short stories by Neil Gaiman, and starring Brian Dennehy and Bebe Neuwirth, was awarded a 2002 Audie Award by the audio publishers association.

At the end of 2002 Gaiman wrote and directed his first film, in association with Ska Films: a short, dark, funny film called "A Short Film About John Bolton", which should be available on DVD toward the end of 2003 or early 2004.

Gaiman's work has appeared in translation in Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany, France, Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Israel, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Finland, Japan, Hungary, Turkey, Korea, Portugal and lots other countries he can't think of off-hand. His journalism has appeared in Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, The Observer Colour Supplement, and many other places. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers.

Tori Amos sings about Neil on her albums 'Little Earthquakes', 'Under the Pink', 'Boys for Pele' and 'Scarlet's Walk'; and he's written songs for Minneapolis band The Flash Girls ("the find of the year and perhaps beyond" -- Utne Reader). He appeared on the cover of photographer Patti Perret's book of photos of authors, The Faces of Fantasy.

Gaiman is presently working with the Dancing Ferret Discs record label to produce an album of original songs written about his diverse characters and stories; various recording artists will participate in the compilation.

In August 1997 the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a First Amendment organisation, awarded Gaiman their Defender of Liberty award for his work 'defending First Amendment freedoms'. In 2000 he did the final series of "Guardian Angel" readings, which he had been doing for the CBLDF since 1993. Following the "Last Angel Tour" Gaiman replaced the retiring Frank Miller on the CBLDF Board of Directors.

Neil Gaiman has somehow reached his early forties and still tends to need a haircut.

source : neilgaiman.com

Neil Gaiman ba? How 'bout Greg Rucka, hehe

I'm still reading his American gods, thanks to you.

And so far i got Part I to V of 1602, a limited series he collaborated with Marvel. It's like the past life of the Marvel characters. The only character that i'm sort of clueless was Virginia Dare, was she MJ - tut tut, nyek parang ang layo ah

Suggestions? Hmm... buy another copy of American Gods and finish it this time!

Haven't read much of his Sandman series, although my favorite story from it would have to be Ramadan. It's either in the Fables and Reflections or Worlds' End collection yata and it's the first Sandman story I ever read. (Jeez, can't believe I bought that issue a decade or so ago.) It's about the caliph of Baghdad who decided to sell his majestic city and all its wonders to Morpheus.

alamat, Virginia Dare is based on a real person, I think. The real Virginia Dare along with the entire colony she belonged to vanished without a trace. And Rucka rocks!

Anak kayo ng kuwago! Eh mas marami pa pala akong nabasa kesa sa inyo? Ahihihi.

chaosjap, thanks for the informative cut and pasted post with source. Care to put in your original two cents worth?

Yes, Arni, you've now read more Sandman than I have. If you ever want to give his prose stories a try again, start with Smoke and Mirrors, a collection of his short stories.

i cant

ive only read his works on
sandman and alice cooper's sideshow - comics

its too limited for an in-depth analysis.


BUTT i find his works much
odd and goth-like. real nice

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ic, according to Gaiman in his 1602, Virginia was the very first-born of the English colonists, she belongs to the Roanoke. I'm just kinda puzzle about her significance in the Marvel Universe, maybe because her bodyguard was rojhaz whom i understand the Cap. I already got my copy of Part 6, and i like this issue in particular - finally, the Beast and the Iceman go rolling. The Treasure of Templars was actually Thor. The Fantasticks has been freed. And the high inquisitor aka Magneto has up for something.

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I agree! American Gods is one of my current faves of Gaiman's works!

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here are the books i've read... not counting the illustrated ones..

neverwhere
stardust
american gods

Nagustuhan niyo ba ang American Gods? Kasi katatapos ko lang basahin yung last month... At...

Sabi nila ok daw ang Neverwhere.

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I am currently finishing his American Gods and at the same time all of his Sandman volumes. I already read his novel Stardust na parang pang bata ang dati, but of course, it is not.

i dunno what it is about american gods..ikept thinking that even for a fantasy book, the premise of the story was so...nonsensical. so of course it came as a shock to me that i couldnt put it down.

i havent read his sandman series and coraline but my friend has copies of these kaya manghihiram na lang muna ko para tipid and ill just buy a copy if i really like it.

i'm a self-proclaimed gaiman-iac! so far i've read/listened to/watched the ff:

novels:
-coraline
-stardust
-american gods
-good omens
-neverwhere

graphic novels:
-sandman
-the death series
-endless nights
-1602
-wolves in the walls
-the day i swapped my dad for two goldfish
-black orchid
-signal to noise
-the last temptation
-violent cases
-the dream hunters
-mr. punch
-books of magic

short stories:
-smoke and mirrors
-harlequin valentine
... etc (dami kasi)

audiobooks:
-two plays for voices
-instructions
-a writer's prayer

tv series:
-neverwhere (BBC)

cant wait for mirrormask!

i'm glad i found this thread!

nabasa ko na ang american gods at ang stardust

basahin niyo rin ang good omens, bad omens co-author siya doon.

di ba ngayong buwan lalabas ang bago niyang libro na anansi boys?

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yup, september 20 in the states.
just dunno when in manila.
read a few excerpts. very promising.

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labas na sa powerbooks, fully booked at bibliarch for 1,099 bucks hardbound

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I'm gonna try one of Gaiman's novels again this weekend when I borrow books from the public library ... so that Baytor and I or any of the other Gaiman fans have something new to talk about.

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