Quick Newsy thing- July 23, 2008 A sneak preview of the Sandman 20th anniversary poster: http:celebritygossip.epicureforum.comgreat-comics-artists-draw-sandman-characters-for-special-edition-poster-119.htmlAnd Henry Selick told me that We will have our two top puppet fab people - Georgina and Martin - at the NECA toy booth with lots of Coraline puppets. Exhibit Hall - Booth 4345 (across from Warner Brother's 4329 booth)So if you want to see what the puppets -- our actors from the film -- look like, now is your chance.http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/quick-newsy-thing.html One of the Clarion posts I wasn't going to do, but...- July 22, 2008 Several people wrote to ask why I wasn't doing a Coraline movie panel in San Diego on Saturday, as mentioned on this blog a few months ago. Laika had asked me to do it originally (and that was when I mentioned it here) but, as far as I know right now, all the Coraline people are madly beavering away trying to get the film finished in time, they've never mentioned it again and it's not on the Comic-Con schedule.Dude-Sure La Jolla is ten miles away from downtown San Diego, it's also only ten...http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/one-of-clarion-posts-i-wasnt-going-to.html Last post for a bit- July 20, 2008 I'm at Clarion. Which is in San Diego, about ten miles from where Comic-con will be. I don't have any plans to be at Comic-con, my plate is pretty full here. I also won't be blogging -- I want to give teaching my full attention; I haven't done this before.But Charles Brownstein from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund asked me to get the word out on a couple of things:1) Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab have done a limited edition of their amazing "Snow, Glass, Apples" scent. It smells like green apples.http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/last-post-for-bit.html public service announcements- July 19, 2008 Dave McKean, for too many years now a man without a website, wants me to tell you that things are finally stirring at the unusually-named http:davemckean.com (and that Allen Spiegel will be selling original art from The Graveyard Book at Comic-Con.)Ah, the city with the most observant Jews (New York) gets you on Rosh Hashana. Alas.Maybe next time. These events you just listed, including the Sep 30 event, aren't the official Graveyard Book Tour, right Ordinarily I'd assume the Book Tour...http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/public-service-announcements.html Black on Black- July 17, 2008 All the CBLDF black tee shirts are signed ( about a hundred, plus another dozen or so in order that Lorraine has something to send to charity auctions when I'm on the road).How does one tell "the first black tee shirt I ever owned" apart from a hundred other black tee shirtsIt's an odd tee shirt, not very pretty, with a square and a pattern on it, bought in Brighton walking from the train station to the Metropole hotel in 1987. It's actually a misprint. I bought it because it was a little...http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/black-on-black.html For a Good Cause- July 15, 2008 I got a new camera to replace the one that got battered in Brazil. It is much cleverer than the old one, with a touch screen at the back, as a result of which I can't work out how to do easy things like turn the flash on and off. I tried it out on the dog and some cherries... So far today I've signed fifty-something tee shirts for the CBLDF. All black, except for a mystery dark blue one, and a few that have greyed with time or cheap dyes. I've returned to the "I cannot part with it" pile the...http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/for-good-cause.html how to tell your friend you really, really hate his book and other ethical problems of today- July 15, 2008 I just read over the galleys of the acknowledgements for The Graveyard Book, written late one night a few weeks ago, and I realised that I'd left people out. Important people. Like, people who helped me type the manuscript and people who sold the film rights. So I've now scribbled all over it, and am hoping that there's still time to fix it. I always forget on acknowledgements and leave people out, but seldom so enormously......I'm going to be at the Library of Congress National Book Festival...http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/how-to-tell-your-friend-you-really.html misc. stuff- July 12, 2008 Several people wrote from Brazil to point out that you can watch the whole half hour Globo interview (in English, with Portuguese subtitles) at,http:video.globo.comVideosPlayerNoticias0,,GIM853222-7823-AS+FANTASIAS+DE+NEIL+GAIMAN,00.htmlNo question, just a comment. I saw the Jornal da Globo newscast and thought that you looked like the young, homeless lovechild of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Or maybe the facial hair just threw me off. It's like the extra hair that you cut off your head...http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/misc-stuff.html The results of Free- July 11, 2008 Dave McKean writes to let me know that,Here's a poster for my show at The Merry Karnowsky Gallery.The opening is on the evening of the 19th, it's open to public,anyone can come, I'll be there. The Gallery is in LA. If you click on the picture you can see it large enough to get the address and time details from it. (You could do it from the gallery link too, but it's less pretty.)...Liz Hand wrote to say "elevator" was, of course, a typo, and I searched and discovered that the complete text of...http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/results-of-free.html Return I will to Old Brazil.- July 11, 2008 (This was yesterday's blogpost.) Spent most of today asleep. Now awake at 4.00 am.Tom Disch killed himself while I was in Brazil. I wanted to love his novels, and mostly failed -- they were astonishingly smart, brilliant but also cold. (I thought I'd read all Disch's novels, and only realised I'd never read On Wings of Song when I started reading the reviews of it in the obituaries. Sigh.) But when I met him, at ICFA, I got to tell him that his story, "Descending" was perfect, which it is, and.http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/return-i-will-to-old-brazil.html |