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Neil Gaiman Celebrates Dismissed Charges Against A Comic Book Store Owner,
2008-04-22 00:05:00 Neil Gaiman celebrates the dismissal of charges against a Georgia comic book store owner, at New York Comic-Con.
NYCC: Neil Gaiman?s CBLDF Charity Reading
2008-04-21 22:06:00 Author Neil Gaiman participated in a reading and audience Q&A session at this NYCC charity event for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
By: Geeks of Doom
Neil Gaiman Celebrates Dismissed Charges Against A Comic Book Store Owner,
2008-04-21 12:05:00 'Comics is just this strange, bastard medium that's thought to be intended for kids,' the writer says.By Jennifer Vineyard Neil Gaiman Photo: MTV News Comic book legend Neil Gaiman has a black eye at the moment — and he likes to joke that he got it "battling for the First Amendment." The truth is something closer to a curious incident involving his dog and a pipe, but because he suffered the injury just prior to an appearance at New York Comic-Con to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which just won a case that Gaiman has been championing for the past three years, we'll let him get away with the fudge. Since the CBLDF had spent more than $100,000 to help defend a comic book store owner named Gordon Lee who was charged with distributing harmful material to a minor, Gaiman was more than happy to announce prior to his reading that the case had been dismissed late Friday afternoon. "One of his employees mistakenly gave a kid on Free Comics Day a comic with a...
NYCC: CBLDF News: Charges Dropped in Gordon Lee Case
2008-04-19 06:03:00 Author Neil Gaiman announced today at a CBLDF charity event that all charges have been dropped in the three-year-old case against Rome, Georgia, comic book store owner Gordon Lee.
By: Geeks of Doom
Review: Odd and the Frost Giants By Neil Gaiman
2008-04-06 12:02:00 A book review of Neil Gaiman's World Book Day story Odd and the Frost Giants. No spoilers.
Eastercon Photos
2008-03-28 00:21:00 One of the people in this picture is excited and the other has just seen the size of the queue. You work out which: The Friday Flash Fictioneers of the Apocalypse: Left to right: Gareth D Jones, Martin McGrath, Paul Graham Raven, Me, Gareth L Powell, Justin Pickard and Shaun C Green ...
Eastercon: China, Neil and Charlie oh my?
2008-03-27 23:54:00 So over at Nostalgia for the Future, Justin has an excellent write up of Eastercon and nicely distills China’s keynote. China was a bit of a revelation. A fascinatingly literate and erudite speaker; I spent a lot of the weekend coming out of his panels with a list of words that I hadn’t known existed. But ...
Thursday Thirteen - 13 Books, more or less
2008-03-27 12:02:00 I’m a voracious and somewhat undisciplined reader. First off, I tend to have two or three books on the go at any one time. I’ll read bits and pieces of one, skim through another that I’ve read before, start another and decide it’s not my cup of tea. I’m a firm believer in the ...
Obama as Dream (from Neil Gaiman?s "Sandman")?
2008-03-10 13:03:00 Don’t know who created this (the place I found it in just linked to it as a remote image), but it is certainly something you don’t see every day. One of the best parts from the first volume of Gaiman’s Sandman, with Obama as Morpheus/Dream and Hillary as Choronzon, a demon. I hadn’t read ...
By: Way of the Mind
DVD Review: ?Beowulf? Unrated Director?s Cut
2008-03-09 00:03:00 This one-disc edition offers up several behind-the-scenes bonus features as well as the unrated director's cut of the Robert Zemeckis-directed motion capture film, starring Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie.
By: Geeks of Doom
Rachel McAdams Eyes Neil Gaiman?s ?Black Orchid? As Superhero Role - SendMe
2008-03-07 16:13:00 Rachel McAdams Eyes Neil Gaiman's 'Black Orchid' As Superhero RoleJessica Alba has her Sue Storm, Jennifer Garner her Elecktra. Kirsten Dunst, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, ? heck, even Ellen Page ? have all had their moment in the comic book spotlight. Just how many roles for female superheroes could possibly be left? Maybe the best one of all, insisted “Notebook” star Rachel McAdams. “I just read this book ‘Black Orchid’ and it’s a really interesting character,” the actress said. “She’s a superhero that’s a flower. I don’t know if that would work or the audiences would be interested in that, but she was kind of cool.” Not just a flower, but a plant/human hybrid able to alter her appearance and voice, regenerate — even fly. And one that, although relatively unheard of, comes with a pretty recognizable comic pedigree, McAdams reminded. “I like all the Neil Gaiman stuff. It’s great,” M...
By: El Cine
Neil Gaiman, el alto coste de la vida
2008-03-06 05:28:00 Existe un limbo más allá del bien y del mal donde residen creadores de fantasÃas barrocas como Tim Burton, Edward Gorey o Neil Gaiman. Son autores que ponen su piel en los personajes y, en la distancia, unos y otros se confunden. Por su aire de eterno rockero culto no pasan los años, pero Neil Gaiman cumplirá 48 el próximo invierno. Sus fans dicen de él que es el Shakespeare de los cómics.
By: ComicPeru
Read Neil Gaiman?s ?American Gods? Online For Free All This Month!
2008-03-03 03:36:00 HarperCollins Publishers has posted the entire novel online for free all this month -- get reading!
By: Geeks of Doom
More ?Coraline? Teaser Trailer + ?Prince of Stories? Cover
2008-02-23 18:12:00 Watch out the higher quality versions of the Coraline teaser trailer, plus check out the Dave McKean cover for the new book about author Neil Gaiman.
By: Geeks of Doom
?Coraline? Teaser Trailer
2008-02-22 02:40:00 Watch the teaser trailer here for the stop-motion animated film written and directed by Henry Selick, based on the 2002 children's book.
By: Geeks of Doom
David Fincher to Direct ?Black Hole?
2008-02-21 18:11:00 Zodiac director David Fincher will helm the Neil Gaiman/Roger Avary-scripted film adaptation of the Charles Burns graphic novel.
By: Geeks of Doom
Author of the month - Neil Gaiman and XBL: Friends List Part I
2008-02-12 23:17:00 Neil Gaiman, I pick you! ‘M is for Mirrors you’ll stare in forever/ N is for Night and for Nothing and Never’ - taken from one of Neil Gaiman’s journal entries. I thought I would introduce something different to my blog this month. I was going to pick an author that I like and talk about some ...
The Rise of Free Online Books
2008-02-12 22:48:00 Paulo Coelho gives us an innovative example on how to get rich as an author. He’s been “pirating his own work for years, spreading electronic versions of his novels over the BitTorrent filesharing network for potential readers to download.” He even established the blog The Pirate Coelho for this purpose, the Guardian Newspaper Book ...
New Year, New Challenges, Same Dodgy Haircut
2008-01-01 15:44:00 Well it’s now 2008. 2007 was a funny year. I got to travel to new places (Paris, Washington, Hong Kong, Hamburg). I got to be embarrassing in front of one of my favourite writers…several times. I spent the first year in my own house (kind of - I think technically I only own the door at ...
More Top Fives: Short Stories
2007-12-30 14:42:00 I’m back in London. I spent most of yesterday driving, we took the opportunity to call in with some friends on the way back and we were not helped by proper Welsh rain. Now I’m quite enjoying flumping on my own sofa and not doing anything. Ergo there are no hilarious hijinks to report. I’d better ...
Merry Christmas
2007-12-25 13:08:00 It’s Christmas morning here in the UK. At least for the next twenty minutes or so. I’ve already had a glass of champagne and, by way of warm up for eating my own body weight in turkey, smoked salmon and scrambled egg on toast. Oh yes, we do Christmas in style here. My presents have gone down ...
A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, Free Audio Story
2007-12-25 12:29:00 A Study in Emerald is a short story written by British fantasy and graphic novel author Neil Gaiman. The story is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche transferred to the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
By: Asiaing.com
?Coraline? Sneak Preview
2007-12-22 15:56:00 Watch the first footage from Henry Selick's stop-motion animated film, based on the children's book by Neil Gaiman.
By: Geeks of Doom
DVD Review: Stardust
2007-12-19 00:28:00 Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this action fairy-tale adventure, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.
By: Geeks of Doom
MirrorMask
2007-12-16 23:14:00 My sister, S, was visiting this weekend. And very kindly brought her copy of MirrorMask up for me to watch. The plan had been to watch it on Saturday evening after an afternoon spent with a collection of my old school friends. Plans went a bit awry after I sampled one of my friend?s home brew ...
Beowulf 3D
2007-12-15 12:42:00 Ok, now I get it. Constant readers will recall that I saw Beowulf a few weeks ago and that I was not all that impressed. I thumped my animation bible, cursing motion capture as the work of the devil. Which makes this kind of embarrassing because last night I saw Beowulf in 3D at the IMAX in ...
Hear Neil Gaiman's Ad Cong Talk
2007-11-30 03:03:00 Transcripts and Recordings from Neil?s Subic Appearances The ever-reliable Charles Tan has posted tons of goodies on his blog for us:From the Ad Congress:Audio Recording ? Imagination and Creativity in the Contemporary World (50:27, 24 MB) Q&A (26:59 13 MB) From ?A Gathering of Dreamlings and Nightmares?: Audio Recordings:The Graveyard Book Reading (51:35, 24 MB)Talk and Q&A (58:06, 27 MB) Transcript: click click! Excerpt: Good morning! This microphone? there are elves! Right. In spite of the fact that some of you were here 1230 and probably asleep quietly in the background somewhat, one of the reasons I became a writer was to not get up early in the morning. And this qualifies as early and I did really well at the Advertising Congress the other day because that started at 930 and I was still on jet lag American time. My soul was still halfway across the Pacific and my theory is that souls travel at 60 miles an hour, about as fast as the fas...
Beowulf
2007-11-27 12:30:00 Normally I post reviews within a few hours of having seen the film but I waited in the case of Beowulf. Why? I needed time to digest it, to consider what I thought and to wonder if I should in fact wait to see it in 3D before making a decision. I still plan to see ...
Kindling a debate
2007-11-20 21:21:00 Amazon have released the Kindle reigniting the debate over the future of the book pulling in comments from many people such as John Scalzi over at Whatever and Paul Raven over at Velcro City. Meanwhile Neil Gaiman’s got in on the action, you can check out his thoughts here. Neil makes a pretty compelling argument for ...
Movie Review: Beowulf
2007-11-17 05:59:00 Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie star in this motion-capture animated fantasy by director Robert Zemeckis.
By: Geeks of Doom
Gathering Dreamlings and Nightmares with Neil Gaiman
2007-11-16 08:56:00 Now?s your chance to meet one of the greatest living post-modern authors, Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman is returning to the Philippines this November to speak at the 20th Philippine Advertising Congress, and will also be having a special book reading just for his fans.Gaiman is no stranger to ?The New Order,? the main theme of this year?s Ad Congress, because it?s largely because of his efforts that the ?graphic novel? has come into its own as a legitimate and very popular art form.Although he loved to read comics as a child, Gaiman?s interest waned in his teens when he felt that he could learn nothing new from the medium. However, the emergence of the graphic novel in the 1970?s and 1980?s inspired Gaiman to become a comic book writer. During the early 1980?s, he worked as a freelance journalist and editor until he was able to publish his first comic book, Violent Cases, in collaboration with artist Dave McKean in 1987. Afterwards, Gaiman was invited by DC comics to do Black Orchid. Th...
Geeks Gear Up For ?Beowulf?
2007-11-15 16:09:00 UsGeeks of Doom have been chatting it up together about the Robert Zemeckis-directed Beowulf, which hits theaters this week. Herein lies some of our thoughts...
By: Geeks of Doom
?Beowulf? in IMAX 3D Opens Friday
2007-11-15 02:13:00 Here's a listing of theaters playing Beowulf in IMAX 3D.
By: Geeks of Doom
Spike TV Scream 2007 Winners!!!
2007-10-24 03:58:00 PRESS RELEASE HARRISON FORD CROWNED WITH FIRST EVER HERO AWARD NEIL GAIMAN, “STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN” AND ALICE COOPER HONORED “TRANSFORMER” STARS SHIA LABEOUF AND MEGAN FOX SCORE MAJOR AWARDS JESSICA BIEL NAMED FANTASY FOX; “HEROES” ACTRESS HAYDEN PANETTIERE WINS BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE SHOW PREMIERES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 AT 10PM, ET/PT Spike TV put on an out of the world performance bringing ...
By: Geeks of Doom
Stardust
2007-10-21 20:27:00 After months of waiting and jealously watching blogger after blogger go to see Stardust in the states it finally went on general release in the UK. Yesterday I finally got to see the movie. And it was wonderful. Most regular readers would expect me to say that. I am an unashamed Neil Gaiman fan but it’s ...
Theater Review: The Wolves In The Walls
2007-10-21 05:50:00 The teen queen takes her little brother to see the musical adaptation of the Neil Gaiman children's story and loves it!
By: Geeks of Doom
Monday Musings
2007-10-08 23:36:00 Last week I tried to be organised and to write my Friday Flash Fiction before Friday. And I did. I also then forgot it, having been none to impressed with it in the first place, and so I had to write a brand new one that became “A Bit of a Pickle”. Anyway I couldn’t really ...
Rambling along the digital highway with no particular place to be
2007-10-01 22:28:00 So I’ve been trawling the web for something interesting to say, something other than the obvious gloating that I’m-going-to-see-Neil-Gai-man-tomorrow-and- wouldn’t-it-be-a-giggle-i-f-I-went-in-my-casual-gear (he’s not the only Neil with a penchant for black and an aversion to brushing his hair). First I went over to Joey Moggie for inspiration but alas my digital friend has been strangely quiet of ...
Neil Gaiman Interview
2007-09-27 14:48:00 There’s a good Neil Gaiman interview over at The Guardian. For those who are interested. I reckon there’ll be a lot more of these in the run up to the release of Stardust in the UK but I quite liked this one so I thought I’d share.
Susanna Clarke
2007-09-25 18:48:00 Ok. At the theatre a bit early. Handset playing up so bear with me. Tickets just going out. ******** No phones allowed so this is it until i get in. Sorry. Really must go-being glared at. ******** Well i?m out now. Still in central london. The evening was not without mishap: a fire alarm nearly ended the whle thing. ...
Basking in the warmth
2007-09-24 22:10:00 I realise I promised not to talk about the house anymore but I have finally got heating! Yes if my life gets anymore exciting I may pass out. - It’s taken eight days (it’s meant to take five tops). - We’ve gone through two boilers, two fans and two gas meters - We’ve had a gas leak - We’ve had ...
The green green grass of home
2007-09-22 02:29:00 I’m home. Not my home London, my home Wales. Well my parent’s home in Wales. It’s still home to me and periodically I must return, vampire like, to my lair to recharge the Taffro. It’s late…this entry may not make sense. After the debacle of the last few days it’s a bloody relief to be in a ...
Relativity
2007-09-15 15:43:00 For some reason last week feels like an age away, rather like looking down the wrong end of a telescope. I seem to have been flitting around all over the place, trekking around with the 2nd draft of “Priest” all the while, somehow I managed to fit in a ride on Wednesday. Alas one trip ...
Second R-Rated ?Beowulf? Trailer
2007-09-06 13:48:00 Second red-band trailer and third official podcast for the upcoming film.
By: Geeks of Doom
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