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Alex De Campi and Neil Gaiman?

Oh please make this happen. Bleeding Cool writer Alex DeCampi (and animation director) suggested on Twitter that this manner of animation would suit a Neil Gaiman story very well indeed.

Alex De Campi: Amazing book animation this would be fun to do for a @neilhimself short story…

Thing is on Twitter, you're playing with live bullets.

Neil Gaiman: do I need to record one specially?

Alex De Campi: it would have to be Quite Short Indeed, or only the initial page of a long story, due to animation taking a bloody long time

Alex De Campi: it also might work rather well for a poem. If you have suggestions, let me know. It would take me ages, though. I am slow.

Neil Gaiman: maybe a short short like Nicholas Was.

Alex De Campi: not sure I've read Nicholas Was, though my brain is in comic-launch/music video edit shutdown. Will truffle it out and ponder.

The text is below, Alex, obviously copyright Neil Gaiman. Or you can listen to it here…

Let;s see if we can make it happen for next Christmas, hey?

Nicholas Was…

Older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.

The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.

Once very year they forced him, sobbing & protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.

He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

Ho.

Ho.

Ho.

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