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Revision as of 10:37, 11 September 2002 by 209.239.207.229 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Neil Gaiman, British science fiction and comic book author, born November 10, 1960 in the United Kingdom. Currently lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.
After a start in the world of journalism (during which he wrote his first book, a now sought-after throwaway biography of the band Duran Duran). Gaiman turned to comics early on in his career, he wrote two graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long time friend Dave McKean in the UK, "Violent Cases" and "Signal to Noise". His first US comics work was for DC Comics editor Karen Berger to revive the character of theBlack Orchid. He has written a multitude of comics for several publishers, but his best-known comic work is the The Sandman comics series, which chronicles the adventures of Morpheus, the personification of the human imagination, who is one of the Endless (Seven sibling "beings" who are integral to the way the universe works and have existed since, well maybe since it all began!). All 75 issues of the regular series have been collected into 10 volumes that are still in print and selling well. Gaiman also writes; songs, poems, novels, and wrote the BBC dark fantasy television series Neverwhere, the teleplay for the "Day of the Dead" episode of the Babylon 5 TV show as well as the English language script to the anime movie Princess Mononoke. Basically he does it all and is damn good at it. His works include:
Comics & Graphic Novels
- The Black Orchid 88 (with Dave McKean)
- The Sandman series 89-96 (with various artists)
- ’’Miricleman series 90-93’’ (with various artists)
- Violent CasesUK87 US91 (with Dave McKean)
- ’’Books Of Magic 91’’ (with various artists)
- Signal to Noise UK92 (with Dave McKean)
- ’’Death: The High Cost of Living, 93’’ (with Chris Bachelo)
- Mr.Punch 94 (with Dave McKean)
- Alice Cooper and the Last Temptation 94 (with Michael Zulli)
- ’’Angela, Vol. 1 mini series 95’’ (with Todd McFarlane)
- ’’Death: The Time Of Your Life 96’’ (with Chris Bachelo)
- The Sandman, The Dream Hunters 99'’ (with Yoshitaka Amano)
- Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days 99 (a collection with various artists)
- Murder Mysteries, Dark Horse ed 02’’ (adapted by P. Craig Russell)
- Harlequin Valentine 02 (with John Bolton)
Prose & Words with Pictures
- Good Omens 90 (with Terry Pratchett)
- Angels and Visitations93 (a collection of short stories)
- Snow, Glass, Apples 94’’(short story illustrated by Charles Vess) * ’’About Cats & Dogs 97’’ (two short stories) * Neverwhere UK96 US97
- Smoke And Mirrors 98 (a collection of short stories)
- The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish 98
(a picture book illustrated by Dave McKean)
- Stardust, DC ed 98 (illustrated by Charles Vess)
- Stardust, Avon ed 00
- American Gods01 (won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel)
- Murder Mysteries, Biting Dog Press ed 01(pictures George Walker)
- Adventures in the Dream Trade 02 (a collection of stuff)
- Snow, Glass, Apples Biting Dog Press ed 02 (with George Walker)
- A Walking Tour of the Shambles 02 (with Gene Wolfe)
- Coraline02 (A children's book, some printings with
illustrations by Dave McKean)
Audio
- ’’Warning Contains Language95’’(stories read by Gaiman, music by McKean)
* Signal to Noise 00’’ (audio drama with full cast and music)
- ’’American Gods, Audio 02’’ (read by George Guidall)
- ’’Coraline, US audio 02’’ (read by Gaiman)
- ’’Coraline, UK audio 02’’ (read by )
- ’’Two Plays for Voices 02’’ ( Snow, Glass, Apples & Murder Mysteries full cast & music)
Gaiman is a Board Member as well as an active supporter of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and he regularly participates in fundraisers for the group including creating materials such as the original Snow, Glass, Apples for the purpose of fundraising (the CBLDF owns the copyright).
Shortly before the publication of American Gods, Gaiman began to write a weblog, which now resides on his official site and is one of the most-read weblogs on the Internet. Parts of it were extracted for publication in the NESFA Press collection of Gaiman miscellany, Adventures in the Dream Trade.
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