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 And indeed, Rich's report this morning that Sandman would be returning with a new project from Neil Gaiman and JH Williams was confirmed on the Vertigo panel tonight with a video announcement from Gaiman and more art and info from DC. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: A New Sandman Series By Neil Gaiman And JH Williams III? Now, seemingly[...]

  Twenty-five years after one of the most celebrated graphic novels of all-time hit shelves, award winning and critically acclaimed author and screenwriter, Neil Gaiman, announces his return to THE SANDMAN Gaiman made the surprise announcement, via video, at DC Entertainment's Vertigo panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con  Karen Berger, Executive Editor of Vertigo, then[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you this morning, there's new Sandman coming in 2013 from Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III  Here's the official announcement:   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GndnR7oSYYk[/youtube]   As Bleeding Cool told you this morning, there's new Sandman coming in 2013 from Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III[...]

Books creator Neil Gaiman has recently approved the addition. Man, it looks like DC and Neil Gaiman are getting on really well right now, doesn't it? Dean Butters reports from San Diego Comic Con that it looks like the cast of the DC Vertigo comic Books Of Magic, Tim Hunter and friends, will be joining the[...]

A few years ago, Neil Gaiman was approached by DC Comics to write a new chapter in the Sandman series He referred to it as Sandman Zero, it would tell the story of what Dream was up to, when he was captured by humans, trying to enslave Death. However, Gaiman describes the contract offered as less[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1XzrIT789A All down to Sandman apparently... Thanks to Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop, Florida, for his frankness.

If anything the big company should get that tiny percentage. Tom Daylight: not if the big company was paying your rent whilst taking a risk on your creation Dan Slott: So like Neil Gaiman and all the IP he created while working on SPAWN That's what you're saying? Erik Larsen: I would[n't] expect to own Spider-Man on a[...]

Working with Warren Ellis and Gail Simone – but mostly on her own – she pioneered the vanguard to creating original manga-styled graphic novels and continues to push in that direction on a regular basis. And now she's joined the Kickstarter movement for her latest project, attracting support from the likes of Jim Lee, Jill Thompson[...]

I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You're my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends." – Neil Gaiman These are the words that emplazon this new print, by Neil Gaiman and David Mack, created to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Copies can be ordered[...]

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Neil Gaiman spins a monologue similar to his own "Being an Experiment Upon Strictly Scientific Measures" that performs the parlor trick of a narrator recalling Bradbury by way of not remembering him Charles Yu imagines the dysfunctional utopianism of such cautionary works like "There Will Comes Soft Rains" and Fahrenheit 451 as a planetary condition[...]

MouseWatch: David Petersen reads last year's Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day story [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/34828777[/vimeo] ChicagoWatch: Neil Gaiman writes; I'm writing a speech I will be delivering in Chicago next week, with the working title of "What the [very bad swearword] is a Children's Book anyway?" It's about, well, what Children's fiction is, something the book I'm writing right[...]

Issue three was by Bryan Talbot and Neil Gaiman. But it's issue two's Mark Buckingham sketch of Miracleman shortly after the Eclipse series finished that's causing most interest In that it's now being regarded by some as an official appearance of the character And they're prepared to pay $9 plus postage for it Considering that when[...]

Legal eagle Daniel Best sticks up the news (and legal evidence) that not only is Todd McFarlane Productions out of bankruptcy but has paid Neil Gaiman over a million dollars (to be said, of course, with the crook of your little finger on the corner of your mouth) for the privelege Though Daniel does point[...]

A poem from 2006 by Neil Gaiman,will appear on a series of Threadless T-shirts, four in total, coming out in July, to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Ben Templesmith, Brandon Graham and John Cassaday willdraw the final three… but the first is up for grabs. The winner will receive; – $750 cash – $250 Threadless gift[...]

They include; Al Murray, Andy Nyman, Angellica Bell, Bill Oddie, Boyd Hilton, Charlie Brooker, Charlie Higson, Chris Chibnall, Chris Tarrant, Christopher H Bidmead, Conor McNicholas, David Quantick, Ed Petrie, Emma Freud, Gary Russell, Graham Duff, Hugh Bonneville, Iain Lee, Iain Morris, Ian McMillan, Jacqueline Rayner, Jason Arnopp, James Moran, Jason Flemyng, Jenny Colgan, Jeremy Dyson, Jon[...]

Thanks to Daniel Best who pulled out a bunch of legal papers on the Neil Gaiman/Todd McFarlane case over owed moneys, showing that as part of the lawsuit, and the subsequent bankruptcy of one of Todd McFarlane's companies, he had to pay $382,000 into an escrow holding system, which Daniel estimates as $450,000 now after[...]

Certainly quicker that the time it took to settle a certain case. It began back in 1993 when Neil Gaiman was approached to work on Spawn by Todd McFarlane He wrote issue 9, introducing characters Cogliostro, Medieval Spawn and Angela, wrote the spinoff Angela mini-series introducing the angelica to the Spawn universe and found three other[...]

Neil Gaiman and a group of several other artists and creators have just released the following open letter to Washington regarding SOPA: We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create We are also Internet users. We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the[...]

Rebellion have launched a 2000AD ebook containing short prose stories by Neil Gaiman, Mark Millar, Peter Miligan, Dan Abnett, Alan Grant and more. Originally appearing in 2000AD and Judge Dredd annuals, they have never been reprinted until now. The story by Neil Gaiman that gives the book its title, Sweet Justice, is one of his first published[...]

It's gotta be you – @NeilHimself! That would be Neil Gaiman, with whom Kevin Smith has enjoyed Twitter badinage in the past Neil's response? @ThatKevinSmith @JayMewes sure! I believe that is legally binding, Twitter or no. Bluntman & Chronic, stoner analogues of Batman and Robin first appeared as a fictional comic in Smith's Chasing Amy, and was intended to[...]

For the 25th Anniversary of the Neverwhere TV Series written by Neil Gaiman, the BBC are producing a new DVD box set Which includes, amongst other things, a map And here is the map, showing locations as a logo for the series As posed with by Neil Gaiman Thank you, Neil. For the 25th Anniversary[...]

Even as Neil Gaiman tweeted the news, people got in touch to say their Barnes & Noble had received no such instruction As one Upper Side New York Barnes & Noble had cleared its bookshelves, one store in the middle of Manhattan still had them all up on the shelves and hadn't been told anything. But[...]

While lunch with Brian Azzarello or drinks with Ben Templesmith and friends will cost $250. But tea with Neil Gaiman? $5000. Please help us by becoming a member of the CBLDF, or renewing your membership today Members are listed here with our thanks for supporting the CBLDF's important work. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund[...]

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[...]

In the end he's only saved because there's this little girl sitting by the side of the docks who still believes in him. Only for Neil Gaiman to add in the comments; NeilGaiman23 July 2011 3:47AM Go-go checks Not chicks Checks. Seriously, how terrifying would it be to have Neil Gaiman as your copy editor? Grant[...]

When Shadow's journey, published as American Gods by Neil Gaiman, was published in 2001 it was a landmark book in what became a landmark year It was Gaiman's first wholly original novel as a solo author and became a surprise both in terms of its success and its division of opinion A bestseller, currently optioned[...]

Title: Hero Comics 2011 Creators: Richard Starkings, Dougie Braithwaite, John Layman and Rob Guillory and Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Kieth Covers by J Scott Campbell or Adam Hughes. Publisher: IDW/Hero initiative Available: Booth #5003 High concept: The new fundraising book features 32 pages of all-new material, including an exclusive "Elephantmen" story by Richard Starkings and Dougie Braithwaite, and[...]

In a short interview with the Washington Post's Comic Riffs, Neil Gaiman talked about his sequel to American Gods, descibed as the "'bubbly new glittery gods' of a technology and media culture trying to supplant the aging Powers That Be Threatened." "There definitely going to be some Twitter in American Gods 2…Not Twitter per se, but[...]