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Sep. 25th, 2003 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiTerrific article on Neil Gaiman and the new Sandman book, Endless Nights.
In other news, I read The Wolves in the Walls to Harrison's class of four year olds today - they loved it, and by the end, they were all saying, in chorus, When the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over!
(yes, both those links take you to the books on amazon, using the FA-associates code. call me a shill - I would've made the post anyway...)
Now, one of the bits in the article says,
I am one of those fangirls who came to Gaiman via prose, and I don't think I would've picked up one of the comic books if my husband - then my brand new boyfriend - hadn't pressed a copy of one of the Sandman collections into my hands back in 1995, when he saw the well-read copy of Good Omens on my shelf - and the sidenote is, I'd purchased Good Omens not because of Pratchett's name on the cover, but because I recognized Gaiman as the journalist who'd written the bio of Douglas Adams that I'd read, on assignment from the teacher, in a 1997 philosophy class in high school. SO I think I was vaguely a fan, preprose.
One of the most fascinating things about being at the booksigning on Monday was just how many couples were there - comic book fanboys and the fangirls who love Neil - and I could say all sorts of presumptive things here that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubydebrazier would thwap me for about girls and comic books, but the true fact is, most die hard comic book fans are boys - perhaps because the girls who, like me, read Archie, eventually put them aside for teenybopper magazines with real, cute and unattainable boys like (then) Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, and (now) Dan Radcliffe and the boys on Everwood.
On Monday night, Aaron and I talked about the idea of a Harry Potter comic book, and the fact that both of us agree that only Neil's most regular illustrator, Dave McKean, would be the one person who isn't currently a fanartist in the fandom who could do Harry's world any sort of justice - and that it's probably only fair that McKean is working on the art side of PoA - anyone know what he's doing, exactly, though? Now that would be a crossover that's Worth It All...
But if there was a comic book version of the Potterverse, it would probably be marketed to ickle kidlings like the Archie and Donald Duck comics and it would be horrible and we'ld all hate it and say how much better work our own fanartist friends do.
And a bunch of us would probably buy it anyway, and hate ourselves for doing so.
In other news, I read The Wolves in the Walls to Harrison's class of four year olds today - they loved it, and by the end, they were all saying, in chorus, When the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over!
(yes, both those links take you to the books on amazon, using the FA-associates code. call me a shill - I would've made the post anyway...)
Now, one of the bits in the article says,
Since those last two titles both hit the New York Times bestseller list, I'm surely not the only reader to first fall in love with Gaiman's imagination via the medium of plain prose. Somehow, though, he hasn't quite registered on the public's consciousness as decisively as he ought to. He is, as one journalist put it, the famous author you've never heard of, a baffling fact in the age that made J.K. Rowling its darling.
I am one of those fangirls who came to Gaiman via prose, and I don't think I would've picked up one of the comic books if my husband - then my brand new boyfriend - hadn't pressed a copy of one of the Sandman collections into my hands back in 1995, when he saw the well-read copy of Good Omens on my shelf - and the sidenote is, I'd purchased Good Omens not because of Pratchett's name on the cover, but because I recognized Gaiman as the journalist who'd written the bio of Douglas Adams that I'd read, on assignment from the teacher, in a 1997 philosophy class in high school. SO I think I was vaguely a fan, preprose.
One of the most fascinating things about being at the booksigning on Monday was just how many couples were there - comic book fanboys and the fangirls who love Neil - and I could say all sorts of presumptive things here that
rubydebrazier would thwap me for about girls and comic books, but the true fact is, most die hard comic book fans are boys - perhaps because the girls who, like me, read Archie, eventually put them aside for teenybopper magazines with real, cute and unattainable boys like (then) Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, and (now) Dan Radcliffe and the boys on Everwood. On Monday night, Aaron and I talked about the idea of a Harry Potter comic book, and the fact that both of us agree that only Neil's most regular illustrator, Dave McKean, would be the one person who isn't currently a fanartist in the fandom who could do Harry's world any sort of justice - and that it's probably only fair that McKean is working on the art side of PoA - anyone know what he's doing, exactly, though? Now that would be a crossover that's Worth It All...
But if there was a comic book version of the Potterverse, it would probably be marketed to ickle kidlings like the Archie and Donald Duck comics and it would be horrible and we'ld all hate it and say how much better work our own fanartist friends do.
And a bunch of us would probably buy it anyway, and hate ourselves for doing so.
