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Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer's embarrassing public spat has gotten the Scottish police involved Apparently, the police believe Gaiman violated international travel guidelines by flying home to Skye, Scotland from New Zealand, which kicked off the public back-and-forth Gaiman described his journey on his blog last Thursday, writing: I was in New Zealand with them until[...]

Airing in an hour-and-a-bit today at 7.30pm GMT/2.30pm ET/11.30am PT on BBC Radio 3 today for two-and-a-half hours, alongside David Tennant and Amanda Palmer is Playing in the Dark: Neil Gaiman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Listen to it live, or pop by the link to listen to it for a month. Neil Gaiman is one[...]

Neil's episode takes but a brief hour as he, basically, tells us all stories about himself, his life and the music he has loved and on being married to Amanda Palmer -"it's a little like being handcuffed to someone who is determined to have amazing adventures and you have amazing adventures whether you like them[...]

What follows is a wonderful Twitter tale from the amazing Amanda Palmer (who we're hoping has a much bigger role next season if SYFY's Happy! gets renewed – you can see why here) – a tale of Gaiman… a bowtie… true heroism… and a happy ending for all: "we were late to the london premiere of[...]

Musician, author, and performance artist Amanda Palmer has a new album coming out, There Will Be No Intermission There's a new single too, Drowning In Sound, which uses crowd-sourced comments from her blog Here it is… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4djEpvVlEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Amanda Palmer – Drowning In The Sound (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4djEpvVlE) And a new solo piano tour,[...]

Have you always wished you could be on the holiday card list of celebrity weirdo power couple Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, but didn't think you were famous or cool enough to earn the honor? Well, you're in luck today, because the couple is sending out their first holiday card, and it will only cost[...]

Paul Zehr and Kris Pearn; and The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained from DK.   Speaking of DK…nice job with the Chewbacca and Boba Fett Lego statues.   A Sobering, Ego-Crushing Sentence For Those Who Were Signing at BEA/Book Con: I'm pretty sure "Grumpy Cat" had one of the longest lines out of anyone, human or otherwise. Thanks to[...]

Occupy Comics, from Black Mask Studios, with its host of contributing artists and writers capturing some of the ways in which comics can protest inequalities in society, finally arrived in trade collection this week, complete with Alan Moore's long essay "Buster Brown at the Barricades", edited, in fact, by me: Hannah Means-Shannon. But even I was[...]

Friday's performance acquired its own unique tone when Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer introduced several musical guests over the course of a two act performance  nearly three hours in length, and also made the announcement that they've decided to move to New York from Boston. Interestingly, long before they made this announcement, there was already an[...]

In an "Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer" event at Town Hall in New York City Friday night, Palmer started to let slip that they had an "exciting secret" and then the couple had a moment of thought before agreeing to tell the audience what was on their mind Palmer explained that they had just purchased[...]

In fact, if you want to get tickets, a little determination is necessary. Past contributors to the performance, which involves acting roles, burlesque dancing, vocals, and events happening in several locations on the Speakeasy premises throughout the 2 ½ hour show, include Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer The Speakeasy experience had already become a very big[...]

Amanda Palmer Vs The Daily Mail From an interview with BBC Newsnight with Amanda Palmer. My husband is British and he's, actually, he's done a very good job at educating me about the varieties of British press and how the British press differs in its approach in a lot of ways from the American press. I wish[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SV1yX-Kp5c[/youtube] At an Amanda Palmer New Year's concert, Neil Gaiman sang the theme tune to Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5. When he mentioned this on Twitter, I wondered if they had a copy of the Alan Moore Black Dossier vinyl record which used it as a base[...]

Online piracy is harmful and it needs to be addressed, but not at the expense of censoring creativity, stifling innovation or preventing the creation of new, lawful digital distribution methods. We urge Congress to exercise extreme caution and ensure that the free and open Internet, upon which so many artists rely to promote and distribute their[...]

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are launching a West Coast tour of An Evening With Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer, through Kickstarter A dollar will get you a digital download of the performance which is possibly one of the better value Kickstarter projects I've come across. There are other items of greater value of course, culminating[...]

This video teaser for the Evelyn Evelyn twin volume graphic novel for Dark Horse by Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley and Cynthia Von Buhler, co-stars Amanda's husband Neil Gaiman Who, while a wonderful and renowned fantasy author, orator and social networker, demonstrates why he should never actually be brought on to sell something in a convincing[...]

A series of tweets: Amanda Palmer: hey guess what we did last night (and this time it's legal) Neil Gaiman: I am the happiest and luckiest man in the world Thank you to @ayeletw and her family for giving us their parlour, their hospitality & love. Ayelet Waldman: For those curious about the mystery event that happened in[...]

HateWatch: Dwight MacPherson on the Graphic Novel/Film Pitch cource..and hate. Sure, there are some “big-name” freelancers who see a considerable amount

Neil Gaiman wrote and directed Statuesque, a short silent movie for Sky TV starring Bill Nighy and Amanda Palmer as part of their Twelve Films Of Christmas season. Except the budget overran so they had to cut it down to eleven Statuesque survived And here it is, shoved up on YouTube (it's okay, Neil blogged about[...]