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Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days

Included is his previously unpublished "tryout" story for DC editor Karen Berger.


Aristeas

This story appears to be referred to in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics: Aristeas was a poet who lived around 700 BCE, and became by transformation one of many ravens who have acted as both adviser and assistant to The Endless known as Dream.

Canada Bill Jones

In Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Mr. Wednesday tells his protégé Shadow a story about Canada Bill Jones to demonstrate the life of a con artist.

Child pornography laws in the United States

CBLDF leader Neil Gaiman remarked on how this could apply to his work The Doll's House, saying, "if you bought that comic, you could be arrested for it? That’s just deeply wrong. Nobody was hurt. The only thing that was hurt were ideas."

Doug Segal

Segal's first fringe festival show I Know What You're Thinking was well received by audiences and critics gaining a number of 4 and 5 star reviews as well as the interest of various notables such as the writer Neil Gaiman.

Dreams with Sharp Teeth

It is composed of original and archive footage of Ellison and talking head segments from colleagues and fans including Robin Williams, Peter David and Neil Gaiman.

François Mackandal

In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, a boy named Agasu is enslaved in Africa and brought to Haiti, where he eventually loses his arm and leads a rebellion against the European establishment.

Grimble

J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman and Lauren Child have cited the work as being a favourite book of theirs.

Hope Mirrlees

Since 2000, Mirrlees' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

House of Mystery

A one shot reprint (in color), Welcome Back to the House of Mystery, featured ten of the most highly regarded stories as selected by Alisa Kwitney in a Cain wraparound by Neil Gaiman and Sergio Aragonés, under the Vertigo imprint.

Illusion On-Demand

Illusion not only premiered Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere to American audiences but has been applauded for returning classic Doctor Who to television after well over a decade of absence.

In Search of Steve Ditko

The programme featured interviews with comics creators, editors and others including Jerry Robinson, John Romita Sr., Neil Gaiman, Joe Quesada, Ralph Macchio, Flo Steinberg, Alan Moore, Mark Millar, Stan Lee, and Cat Yronwode.

Joachim Witt

Joachim Witt also contributed the song "Vandemar" to the 2006 album Where's Neil When You Need Him?, a compilation of songs based on the works of author Neil Gaiman.

Lamy

Notable author Neil Gaiman wrote his book American Gods with his Lamy 2000, which he refers to as his "novel writing pen".

Mallory Reaves

Most recently, she became a published novelist, co-authoring The Silver Dream with Michael Reaves and Neil Gaiman.

Nutley, East Sussex

Author Neil Gaiman lived in Nutley between 1987 and 1992, and his house there became the setting for his book Coraline.

Over at the Frankenstein Place

On Nov. 1, 2011, Craig Ferguson, Sid the Bunny, Moby, Stephin Merritt, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer performed the song to open the Halloween episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Skartaris

Skartaris is depicted in The Books of Magic issue #3, part of a four-issue English-language comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman.

Stian Carstensen

He played the accordionist in the circus band (and the soundtrack) of the 2005 Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean film MirrorMask.

Swazzle

A discussion of the proper use of a swazzle is given towards the end of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch; throughout the story, a mysterious figure known as "Swatchell" works as the Professor in a Punch and Judy show where the narrator is staying with his grandparents.

Tales of Ghost Castle

Tales of Ghost Castle was "hosted" by Lucien, who later became an important supporting character in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.

Tales of the Unanticipated

Over the years, notable authors who contributed fiction, articles and/or poetry have included Kate Wilhelm, Eleanor Arnason, Damon Knight, Bruce Bethke, John Sladek, Stephen Dedman, and Neil Gaiman.

The Angel, Islington

The Angel Islington is also an actual Angel dwelling in the sewers of London Below in the Neverwhere book, TV series, and radio series by Neil Gaiman.

The Lion and the Unicorn

The rhyme is also the basis of an episode in the novel Stardust by Neil Gaiman, in which the protagonists of the novel, Tristran Thorn and Yvaine, witness a lion and a unicorn fight over a crown during their travels through an enchanted forest.

The Odd Gentlemen

Neil Gaiman announced in June 2013 he would be making his first game with the help of The Odd Gentlemen.

The People vs. George Lucas

Interviewees include a variety of figures such as Neil Gaiman, MC Frontalot and Gary Kurtz.

The Shadow over Innsmouth

The collection was edited by Stephen Jones, and included contributions by Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, David Sutton, Kim Newman (both as himself and Jack Yeovil), and other authors.

The Tenth Dimension

The Tenth Dimension has published some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy, including Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Aldiss and many others.

The Unexpected

The comic features "The Mad Mod Witch" (later known as "Fashion Thing" in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman) as a story narrator in #108-112, 114-116, 140, and 162, and "Judge Gallows" in #113, 118, 121, 125 and 133.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

He later discovered the works of a wider range of contemporary writers like Jonathan Safran Foer, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Neil Gaiman and Yann Martel, whom he calls his greatest influences.

Trident Comics

Trident Comic's aim was to provide creator-owned opportunities for not just established talent such as Neil Gaiman, Eddie Campbell and Grant Morrison, but new talent such as Mark Millar, Paul Grist and Dominic Regan.

Trident was an anthology title, and its first issue featured work such as Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, Neil Gaiman and Nigel Kitching's The Light Brigade and Grant Morrison and Paul Grist's St. Swithin's Day.

Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau (who reviewed the book for the New York Times), and was called "one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written" by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

Vroman's Bookstore

Vroman's has hosted many author readings, including celebrities like Goldie Hawn, Margaret Cho, Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter, Courtney Love, Salman Rushdie, Anne Rice, Joan Didion, Nick Hornby, Bret Easton Ellis, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, Chuck Palahniuk, and President Bill Clinton.

Wayne Alan Harold

Guests included P. Craig Russell, Jill Thompson and other artists of the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.

Zhang Jizhong

He has hired Neil Gaiman as a screenwriter and the two were introduced to each other by James Cameron, who turned down the role as director, but has agreed to help with the special effects of the film.


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