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Revision as of 18:37, 11 September 2002 by Lee Daniel Crocker (talk | contribs)(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. As of 2002 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, and a large number of articles for Knave magazine), Gaiman turned to comics. 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, who asked him to revive the character Black 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 and 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 and the English language script to the anime movie Princess Mononoke. His works include:
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Black Orchid (1988) (with Dave McKean)
- The Sandman series (1989-1996) (with various artists)
- Miracleman (1990-1993) (with various artists)
- Violent Cases (1987, 1991 US) (with Dave McKean)
- Books Of Magic (1991) (with various artists)
- Signal to Noise (1992) (with Dave McKean)
- Death: The High Cost of Living (1993) (with Chris Bachalo)
- Mr. Punch (1994) (with Dave McKean)
- Alice Cooper and the Last Temptation (1994) (with Michael Zulli)
- Angela Vol. 1 mini series (1995) (with Todd McFarlane)
- Death: The Time Of Your Life (1996) (with Chris Bachalo)
- The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (1999) (with Yoshitaka Amano)
- Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days (1999) (a collection of early work with various artists)
- Murder Mysteries (Dark Horse) (2002)) (adapted by P. Craig Russell)
- Harlequin Valentine (2002) (with John Bolton)
- Prose and Words with Pictures
- Good Omens (1990) (with Terry Pratchett)
- Angels and Visitations (1993) (a collection of short stories)
- Snow, Glass, Apples (1994) (short story illustrated by Charles Vess)
- About Cats and Dogs (1997) (two short stories)
- Neverwhere (1996, 1997 US)
- Smoke And Mirrors (1998) (a collection of short stories)
- The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (1998) (a picture book illustrated by Dave McKean)
- Stardust (1998, 2000) (illustrated by Charles Vess)
- American Gods (2001)
- Murder Mysteries (Biting Dog Press) (2001) (illustrated by George Walker)
- Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002) (a miscellany)
- Snow, Glass, Apples (Biting Dog Press) (2002) (with George Walker)
- A Walking Tour of the Shambles (2002) (with Gene Wolfe)
- Coraline (2002) (US ed illustrated by Dave McKean)
- Audio
- Warning Contains Language (1995) (stories read by Gaiman, music by McKean)
- Signal to Noise (2000) (audio drama with full cast and music)
- American Gods (2002) (read by George Guidall)
- Coraline (2002) (US ed. read by Gaiman, UK ed. by Dawn French)
- Two Plays for Voices (2002) (Snow, Glass, Apples and Murder Mysteries with 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 (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.
Gaiman received a World Fantasy Award for short fiction in 1991 for the Sandman issue, A Midsummer Night's Dream (see Dream Country). He received the 2002 Hugo Award for outstanding novel for American Gods.
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