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Neil Gaiman

March 20, 2023

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman[2] /ˈɡeɪmən/[3] (born Neil Richard Gaiman;[2] born 10 November 1960)[4] is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008).[5][6] In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.[7] It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London, England that The Independent called "...theatre at its best".[8]

Neil Gaiman
Gaiman in 2013
BornNeil Richard Gaiman
(1960-11-10) 10 November 1960 (age 62)
Portchester, Hampshire, England
OccupationAuthor, comic book creator, screenwriter, voice actor
GenreFantasy, horror, science fiction, dark fantasy, comedy
Years active1984–present
Notable worksThe Sandman, Neverwhere, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Spouses
Mary McGrath
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(m. 1985; div. 2007)​
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(m. 2011)​
Children4
Neil Gaiman's voice
from the BBC programme Saturday Live, 12 October 2013.[1]
Website
neilgaiman.com

Early life

Gaiman's family is of Polish-Jewish and other Eastern European Jewish origins.[9] His great-grandfather emigrated from Antwerp, Belgium, to the UK before 1914[10] and his grandfather eventually settled in Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores. Gaiman's grandfather changed his original family name of Chaiman to Gaiman.[11] His father, David Bernard Gaiman, worked in the same chain of stores;[12] his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist. He has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy.[13]

After living for a period in the nearby town of Portchester, Hampshire, where Neil was born in 1960, the Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town; one of Gaiman's sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. His other sister, Lizzy Calcioli, has said, "Most of our social activities were involved with Scientology or our Jewish family. It would get very confusing when people would ask my religion as a kid. I'd say, 'I'm a Jewish Scientologist.'" Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist, and that like Judaism, Scientology is his family's religion.[14] About his personal views, Gaiman has stated, "I think we can say that God exists in the DC Universe. I would not stand up and beat the drum for the existence of God in this universe. I don't know, I think there's probably a 50/50 chance. It doesn't really matter to me."[15]

Gaiman was able to read at the age of four. He said, "I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them—which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it."[16] When he was about ten years old, he read his way through the works of Dennis Wheatley, where especially The Ka of Gifford Hillary and The Haunting of Toby Jugg made an impact on him.[17]

One work that made a particular impression on him was J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings from his school library. Although the library only had the first two of the novel's three volumes, Gaiman consistently checked them out and read them. He later won the school English prize and the school reading prize, enabling him to finally acquire the third volume.[18]

For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He later recalled that "I admired his use of parenthetical statements to the reader, where he would just talk to you ... I'd think, 'Oh, my gosh, that is so cool! I want to do that! When I become an author, I want to be able to do things in parentheses.' I liked the power of putting things in brackets."[18] Narnia also introduced him to literary awards, specifically the 1956 Carnegie Medal won by the concluding volume. When Gaiman won the 2010 Medal himself, the press reported him recalling, "it had to be the most important literary award there ever was"[6] and observing, "if you can make yourself aged seven happy, you're really doing well – it's like writing a letter to yourself aged seven."[5]

 
Gaiman attended Ardingly College in Ardingly, West Sussex

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was another childhood favourite, and "a favourite forever. Alice was default reading to the point where I knew it by heart."[18] He also enjoyed Batman comics as a child.[18]

Gaiman was educated at several Church of England schools, including Fonthill School in East Grinstead,[19] Ardingly College (1970–1974), and Whitgift School in Croydon (1974–1977).[20] His father's position as a public relations official of the Church of Scientology was the cause of the seven-year-old Gaiman being forced to withdraw from Fonthill School and return to the school which he had previously attended.[14][21] He lived in East Grinstead for many years, from 1965 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1987.[19]

He met his first wife, Mary McGrath, while she was studying Scientology and living in a house in East Grinstead that was owned by his father. The couple were married in 1985 after having their first child, Michael.[14]

Career

Journalism, early writings, and literary influences

Writers that Gaiman has mentioned as significant influences include C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Dave Sim,[22][23] Alan Moore, Steve Ditko,[24] Will Eisner,[25] Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Lord Dunsany, and G. K. Chesterton.[18][26][27] A lifetime fan of the Monty Python comedy troupe, as a teenager he owned a copy of Monty Python's Big Red Book.[28] During a trip to France when he was 13, Gaiman became fascinated with the visually fantastic world in the stories of Metal Hurlant, even though he could not understand the words.[29]

When he was 19 or 20 years old, he contacted his favourite science fiction writer, R. A. Lafferty, whom he discovered when he was nine, and asked for advice on becoming an author along with a Lafferty pastiche he had written. The writer sent Gaiman an encouraging and informative letter back, along with literary advice.[30][31]

Gaiman has said Roger Zelazny was the author who influenced him the most,[32] with this influence particularly seen in Gaiman's literary style and the topics he writes about.[33] Other authors Gaiman says "furnished the inside of my mind and set me to writing" include Samuel R. Delany and Angela Carter.[32] Gaiman takes inspiration from the folk tales tradition, citing Otta F Swire's book on the legends of the Isle of Skye as his inspiration for The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains.[34]

In the early 1980s, Gaiman pursued journalism, conducting interviews and writing book reviews, as a means to learn about the world and to make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published.[18] He wrote and reviewed extensively for the British Fantasy Society.[35] His first professional short story publication was "Featherquest", a fantasy story, in Imagine Magazine in May 1984.[35]

When waiting for a train at London's Victoria Station in 1984, Gaiman noticed a copy of Swamp Thing written by Alan Moore, and carefully read it. Moore's fresh and vigorous approach to comics had such an impact on Gaiman that he later wrote "that was the final straw, what was left of my resistance crumbled. I proceeded to make regular and frequent visits to London's Forbidden Planet shop to buy comics".[27]

In 1984, he wrote his first book, a biography of the band Duran Duran, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with Kim Newman. Although Gaiman thought he had done a terrible job, the book's first edition sold out very quickly. When he went to relinquish his rights to the book, he discovered the publisher had gone bankrupt.[18][36] After this, he was offered a job by Penthouse. He refused the offer.[18]

He also wrote interviews and articles for many British magazines, including Knave. During this he sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, including Gerry Musgrave, Richard Grey, and "a couple of house names".[37] Gaiman has said he ended his journalism career in 1987 because British newspapers regularly publish untruths as fact.[38][39] In the late 1980s, he wrote Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion in what he calls a "classic English humour" style.[40]

Following this, he wrote the opening of what became his collaboration with fellow English author Terry Pratchett on the comic novel Good Omens about the impending apocalypse.[41]

Comics

Gaiman discusses Sandman in 2014
See also: Neil Gaiman bibliography § Comics

After forming a friendship with comic-book writer Alan Moore, who taught him how to write comic scripts, [27][42] Gaiman started writing comic books and picked up Miracleman after Moore finished his run on the series. He continued his professional relationship with Moore by contributing quotations for the supplemental materials in the Watchmen comic book series.[42]

Gaiman and artist Mark Buckingham collaborated on several issues of the series before its publisher, Eclipse Comics, collapsed, leaving the series unfinished. His first published comic strips were four short Future Shocks for 2000 AD in 1986–87. He wrote three graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long-time friend Dave McKean: Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch. Impressed with his work, DC Comics hired him in February 1987,[43] and he wrote the limited series Black Orchid.[44][45] Karen Berger, who later became head of DC Comics's Vertigo, read Black Orchid and offered Gaiman a job: to re-write an old character, The Sandman, but to put his own spin on him.[18]

The Sandman tells the tale of the ageless, anthropomorphic personification of Dream that is known by many names, including Morpheus. The series began in January 1989 and concluded in March 1996.[46] In the eighth issue of The Sandman, Gaiman and artist Mike Dringenberg introduced Death, the older sister of Dream, who became as popular as the series' title character.[47] The limited series Death: The High Cost of Living launched DC's Vertigo line in 1993.[48] The 75 issues of the regular series, along with an illustrated prose text and a special containing seven short stories, have been collected into 12 volumes that remain in print, 14 if the Death: The High Cost of Living and Death: The Time of Your Life spin-offs are included. Artists include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel and Michael Zulli, lettering by Todd Klein, colours by Daniel Vozzo, and covers by Dave McKean.[18] The series became one of DC's top selling titles, eclipsing even Batman and Superman.[49] Comics historian Les Daniels called Gaiman's work "astonishing" and noted that The Sandman was "a mixture of fantasy, horror, and ironic humor such as comic books had never seen before".[50][51] DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed that "The Sandman became the first extraordinary success as a series of graphic novel collections, reaching out and converting new readers to the medium, particularly young women on college campuses, and making Gaiman himself into an iconic cultural figure."[52]

Gaiman and Jamie Delano were to become co-writers of the Swamp Thing series following Rick Veitch. An editorial decision by DC to censor Veitch's final storyline caused both Gaiman and Delano to withdraw from the title.[53]

Gaiman produced two stories for DC's Secret Origins series in 1989. A Poison Ivy[54] tale drawn by Mark Buckingham and a Riddler[55] story illustrated by Bernie Mireault and Matt Wagner. A story that Gaiman originally wrote for Action Comics Weekly in 1989 was shelved due to editorial concerns but it was finally published in 2000 as Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame.[56]

In 1990, Gaiman wrote The Books of Magic, a four-part mini-series that provided a tour of the mythological and magical parts of the DC Universe through a frame story about an English teenager who discovers that he is destined to be the world's greatest wizard.[57] The miniseries was popular, and sired an ongoing series written by John Ney Rieber.[58]

Gaiman's adaptation of Sweeney Todd, illustrated by Michael Zulli for Stephen R. Bissette's publication Taboo, was stopped when the anthology itself was discontinued.[59]

In the mid-1990s, he also created a number of new characters and a setting that was to be featured in a title published by Tekno Comix. The concepts were then altered and split between three titles set in the same continuity: Lady Justice, Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man, and Teknophage,[60] and tie-ins. Although Gaiman's name appeared prominently as creator of the characters, he was not involved in writing any of the above-mentioned books.

Gaiman wrote a semi-autobiographical story about a boy's fascination with Michael Moorcock's anti-hero Elric of Melniboné for Ed Kramer's anthology Tales of the White Wolf. In 1996, Gaiman and Ed Kramer co-edited The Sandman: Book of Dreams. Nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams, and others.

Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling, Gaiman said:

"One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I'm writing novels I'm painfully aware that I'm working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like The Golden Ass. And you go, well, I don't know that I'm as good as that and that's two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like – I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun."[61]

Gaiman wrote two series for Marvel Comics. Marvel 1602 was an eight-issue limited series published from November 2003 to June 2004 with art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove.[62] The Eternals was a seven-issue limited series drawn by John Romita Jr., which was published from August 2006 to March 2007.[63][64]

In 2009, Gaiman wrote a two-part Batman story for DC Comics to follow Batman R.I.P. titled "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?"[65] a play-off of the classic Superman story "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" by Alan Moore.[66][67] He contributed a twelve-part Metamorpho serial drawn by Mike Allred for Wednesday Comics, a weekly newspaper-style series.[68][69] Gaiman and Paul Cornell co-wrote Action Comics #894 (December 2010), which featured an appearance by Death.[70] In October 2013, DC Comics released The Sandman: Overture with art by J. H. Williams III.[71][72] Gaiman's Angela character was introduced into the Marvel Universe in the last issue of the Age of Ultron miniseries in 2013.[73]

Gaiman oversaw The Sandman Universe, a line of comic books published by Vertigo. The four series — House of Whispers, Lucifer, The Books of Magic, and The Dreaming — were written by new creative teams. The line launched on 8 August 2018.[74][75]

Novels

See also: Neil Gaiman bibliography § Novels and children's books
 
Gaiman in 2009

In a collaboration with author Terry Pratchett, best known for his series of Discworld novels, Gaiman's first novel Good Omens was published in 1990. In 2011 Pratchett said that while the entire novel was a collaborative effort and most of the ideas could be credited to both of them, Pratchett did a larger portion of writing and editing if for no other reason than Gaiman's scheduled involvement with Sandman.[76]

The 1996 novelisation of Gaiman's teleplay for the BBC mini-series Neverwhere was his first solo novel. The novel was released in tandem with the television series though it presents some notable differences from the television series. Gaiman has since revised the novel twice, the first time for an American audience unfamiliar with the London Underground, the second time because he felt unsatisfied with the originals.[77]

In 1999, first printings of his fantasy novel Stardust were released. The novel has been released both as a standard novel and in an illustrated text edition.[78] This novel was highly influenced by Victorian fairytales and culture.[79]

American Gods became one of Gaiman's best-selling and multi-award-winning novels upon its release in 2001.[80] A special 10th Anniversary edition was released, with the "author's preferred text" 12,000 words longer than the original mass-market editions.[81]

Gaiman has not written a direct sequel to American Gods but he has revisited the characters. A glimpse at Shadow's travels in Europe is found in a short story which finds him in Scotland, applying the same concepts developed in American Gods to the story of Beowulf. The 2005 novel Anansi Boys deals with Anansi ('Mr. Nancy'), tracing the relationship of his two sons, one semi-divine and the other an unassuming bookkeeper, as they explore their common heritage. It debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.[82]

In late 2008, Gaiman released a new children's book, The Graveyard Book. It follows the adventures of a boy named Bod after his family is murdered and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. As of late January 2009, it had been on The New York Times Bestseller children's list for fifteen weeks.[83]

In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.[7] The novel follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier.[84] Themes include the search for self-identity and the "disconnect between childhood and adulthood".[85]

In September 2016, Neil Gaiman announced that he had been working for some years on retellings of Norse mythology.[86] Norse Mythology was released in February 2017.[87]

Several of his novels have been published as paperbacks with retro covers by artist Robert McGinnis.[88][89]

Film and screenwriting

See also: Neil Gaiman bibliography § Film

Gaiman wrote the 1996 BBC dark fantasy television series Neverwhere. He cowrote the screenplay for the movie MirrorMask with his old friend Dave McKean for McKean to direct. In addition, he wrote the localised English language script to the anime movie Princess Mononoke, based on a translation of the Japanese script.[90]

After his disappointment with the production limitations of Neverwhere, Gaiman asked his agent to pull him out an unnamed UK television series that was to begin production immediately afterward. "I didn't want to do it unless I had more control than you get as a writer: in fantasy, the tone of voice, the look and feel, the way something is shot and edited is vital, and I wanted to be in charge of that."[91]

He cowrote the script for Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf with Roger Avary, a collaboration that has proved productive for both writers.[92] Gaiman has expressed interest in collaborating on a film adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh.[93]

 
Gaiman on a panel about the Good Omens TV series at New York Comic Con in 2018

He was the only person other than J. Michael Straczynski to write a Babylon 5 script in the series' last three seasons, contributing the season five episode "Day of the Dead".[90] The series also features a recurring alien race called the Gaim, who resemble the character of Dream and are named after Gaiman.

Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of Nicholson Baker's novel The Fermata for director Robert Zemeckis,[94][95] although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made The Polar Express and the Gaiman-Roger Avary written Beowulf film.

Neil Gaiman was featured in the History Channel documentary Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked.[96]

Several of Gaiman's original works have been optioned or greenlighted for film adaptation, most notably Stardust, which premiered in August 2007 and stars Charlie Cox, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes and Mark Strong, directed by Matthew Vaughn. A stop-motion version of Coraline was released on 6 February 2009, with Henry Selick directing and Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher in the leading voice-actor roles.[14]

In 2007, Gaiman announced that after ten years in development, the feature film of Death: The High Cost of Living would finally begin production with a screenplay by Gaiman that he would direct for Warner Independent. Gaiman said that he agreed to direct the film "with the carrot dangled in front of me that I could direct it. And we'll see if that happens, and if I'm a good director or not."[91] Don Murphy and Susan Montford were named as producers, and Guillermo del Toro was named as the film's executive producer.[97][98] By 2010, it had been reported that the film was no longer in production.[99]

Seeing Ear Theatre performed two of Gaiman's audio theatre plays, "Snow, Glass, Apples", Gaiman's retelling of Snow White, and "Murder Mysteries", a story of heaven before the Fall in which the first crime is committed. Both audio plays were published in the collection Smoke and Mirrors in 1998.[100]

At Guillermo del Toro's request, he rewrote the opening of Hellboy II: The Golden Army to make it look more like a fairy tale.[101]

Gaiman's 2009 Newbery Medal winning book The Graveyard Book will be made into a movie, with Ron Howard as the director.[102]

Gaiman wrote an episode of the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, broadcast in 2011 during Matt Smith's second series as the Doctor.[103] Shooting began in August 2010 for this episode, the original title of which was "The House of Nothing"[104] but which was eventually transmitted as "The Doctor's Wife".[105] The episode won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form).[106][107] Gaiman made his return to Doctor Who with an episode titled "Nightmare in Silver", broadcast on 11 May 2013.[108][109]

In 2011, it was announced that Gaiman would be writing the script to a new film version of Journey to the West.[110][111]

Gaiman appeared as himself on The Simpsons episode "The Book Job", which broadcast on 20 November 2011.[112][113][114]

In 2015, Starz greenlighted a series adaptation of Gaiman's novel American Gods. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green wrote and showrun the series.[115]

In 2020, Gaiman received a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form for the TV miniseries adaption of Good Omens, for which he wrote the screenplay.[116]

Radio

A six-part radio play of Neverwhere was broadcast in March 2013, adapted by Dirk Maggs for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. Featured stars include James McAvoy as Richard, Natalie Dormer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Bernard Cribbens and Johnny Vegas.[117]

In September 2014, Gaiman and Terry Pratchett joined forces with BBC Radio 4 to make the first ever dramatisation of their co-penned novel Good Omens, which was broadcast in December in five half-hour episodes and culminated in an hour-long final apocalyptic showdown.[41] In 2021, Gaiman was cast as Duke Aubrey in an adaptation of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, a novel Gaiman had previously proclaimed one of his favourites (and contributed a foreword for an edition by Cold Spring Press), for BBC Radio 4.[118]

Public performances

Gaiman frequently performs public readings from his stories and poetry, and has toured with his wife, musician Amanda Palmer. In some of these performances he has also sung songs, in "a novelist's version of singing",[119] despite having "no kind of singing voice".[120]

In 2015, Gaiman delivered a 100-minute lecture for the Long Now Foundation entitled How Stories Last about the nature of storytelling and how stories persist in human culture.[121] In April 2018, Gaiman made a guest appearance on the television show The Big Bang Theory, and his tweet about the show's fictional comic book store becomes the central theme of the episode "The Comet Polarization".[122]

Blog and Twitter

In February 2001, when Gaiman had completed writing American Gods, his publishers set up a promotional website featuring a weblog in which Gaiman described the day-to-day process of revising, publishing, and promoting the novel. After the novel was published, the website evolved into a more general Official Neil Gaiman Website.[123]

Gaiman generally posts to the blog describing the day-to-day process of being Neil Gaiman and writing, revising, publishing, or promoting whatever the current project is. He also posts reader emails and answers questions, which gives him unusually direct and immediate interaction with fans. One of his answers on why he writes the blog is "because writing is, like death, a lonely business."[124]

The original American Gods blog was extracted for publication in the NESFA Press collection of Gaiman miscellany, Adventures in the Dream Trade.[125]

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of the blog, the novel American Gods was provided free of charge online for a month.[126]

Gaiman is an active user of the social networking site Twitter with over 2.7 million followers as of June 2018, using the username @neilhimself.[127] In 2013, Gaiman was named by IGN as one of "The Best Tweeters in Comics", describing his posts as "sublime."[128] Gaiman also runs a Tumblr account on which he primarily answers fan questions.[129]

In January 2022, when the board of trustees of McMinn County Schools in Tennessee, in a 10-0 decision, removed the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus from its curriculum for 8th grade English classes, overriding a State curriculum decision, Gaiman was critical of the decision. He tweeted: "There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days."[130]

Use of fountain pens

Gaiman is a dedicated user of fountain pens[131] and has said that he writes the first draft of all his books with one. He began this practice with Stardust, which he wrote in fountain pen in order to capture the feeling of the 1920s.[132] He is most closely associated with the Pilot 823, one of which he has said he has used for giving over one million signatures.[133]

Filmography

Neil Gaiman film work
Year Title Role Notes
2010 Arthur Himself (Voice) "Falafelosophy"
2011 The Guild Himself "Downturn"
2011 The Simpsons Himself (Voice) "The Book Job"
2013 Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie Albert the Manservant (Voice)
2015 The Making of a Superhero Musical Melvin Morel
2016 Neil Gaiman Dream Dangerously Himself
2017 The Simpsons Snowball (Voice) "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII"
2018 The Big Bang Theory Himself "The Comet Polarization"
2018 Lucifer God (Voice) "Once Upon a Time"
2019 Good Omens Man in the theatre/Bunny Rabbit/Head Frog[134] "Saturday Morning Funtime"
2021 The Sparks Brothers Self

Personal life

 
Gaiman and wife Amanda Palmer in Vienna, 2011

Gaiman has lived near Menomonie, Wisconsin, since 1992. Gaiman moved there to be close to the family of his then-wife, Mary McGrath, with whom he has three children.[18][135][136][137][138][139] As of 2013, Gaiman also resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[140] In 2014, he took up a five-year appointment as professor in the arts at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.[141]

Gaiman is married to songwriter and performer Amanda Palmer, with whom he has an open marriage.[142] The couple announced that they were dating in June 2009,[143][144] and announced their engagement on Twitter on 1 January 2010.[145] On 16 November 2010, Palmer hosted a non-legally-binding flash mob wedding for Gaiman's birthday in New Orleans.[146] They were legally married on 2 January 2011.[147] The wedding took place in the parlour of writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon.[2][148] On marrying Palmer, he took her middle name, MacKinnon, as one of his names.[2] In September 2015, they had a son.[149]

In March 2020, Gaiman, Palmer, and their son were in Havelock North, Hawke's Bay, when New Zealand's government announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole country would move to COVID-19 Alert Level 4: complete lockdown and quarantining of people within their own homes.[150] In May 2020, Gaiman travelled from New Zealand to his holiday home on the Isle of Skye, breaking the lockdown rules. Ross, Skye and Lochaber MP Ian Blackford described his behaviour as unacceptable and dangerous.[151] Gaiman published an apology on his website, saying he had endangered the local community.[152] After Gaiman's departure, Palmer announced on her Patreon that she and Gaiman had separated and requested privacy.[153] Gaiman stated in a blog post that their split was "my fault, I'm afraid" and also requesting privacy. The couple later released a joint statement clarifying that they were not, however, getting divorced.[154] They reconciled in 2021,[155][156] but in November 2022 they released a joint statement to announce they were divorcing.[157][158]

Advocacy

In 2016, Gaiman, as well as several prominent celebrities, appeared in the video "What They Took With Them", from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to help raise awareness of the issue of global refugees.[159][160]

Gaiman is a supporter of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and has served on its board of directors.[161] In 2013, Gaiman was named co-chair of the organization's newly formed advisory board.[162]

In 2022 during Russian invasion of Ukraine Gaiman supported Ukraine by announcing on Twitter that he doesn't want to renew contracts with Russian publishers.[163] The writer also encouraged donations to Ukrainian refugees.[164][165]

Friendship with Tori Amos

One of Gaiman's most commented-upon friendships is with the musician Tori Amos, a Sandman fan who became friends with Gaiman after making a reference to "Neil and the Dream King" on her 1991 demo tape. He included her in turn as a character (a talking tree) in his novel Stardust.[166] Amos also mentions Gaiman in her songs, "Tear in Your Hand" ("If you need me, me and Neil'll be hangin' out with the dream king. Neil says hi by the way"),[167] "Space Dog" ("Where's Neil when you need him?"),[168] "Horses" ("But will you find me if Neil makes me a tree?"),[169] "Carbon" ("Get me Neil on the line, no I can't hold. Have him read, 'Snow, Glass, Apples' where nothing is what it seems"),[170] "Sweet Dreams" ("You're forgetting to fly, darling, when you sleep"),[171] and "Not Dying Today" ("Neil is thrilled he can claim he's mammalian, 'but the bad news,' he said, 'girl you're a dandelion'").[170] He also wrote stories for the tour book of Boys for Pele and Scarlet's Walk, a letter for the tour book of American Doll Posse, and the stories behind each girl in her album Strange Little Girls. Amos penned the introduction for his novel Death: the High Cost of Living, and posed for the cover. She also wrote a song called "Sister Named Desire" based on his Sandman character, which was included on his anthology, Where's Neil When You Need Him?.

Gaiman is godfather to Tori Amos's daughter Tash,[172] and wrote a poem called "Blueberry Girl" for Tori and Tash.[173] The poem has been turned into a book by the illustrator Charles Vess.[174] Gaiman read the poem aloud to an audience at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in San Francisco on 5 October 2008 during his book reading tour for The Graveyard Book.[175] It was published in March 2009 with the title Blueberry Girl.

Litigation

In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by Todd McFarlane to write a single issue of Spawn, a popular title at the newly created Image Comics company. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and Dave Sim each write a single issue.[176][177]

In issue No. 9 of the series, Gaiman introduced the characters Angela, Cogliostro, and Medieval Spawn. Prior to this issue, Spawn was an assassin who worked for the government and came back as a reluctant agent of Hell but had no real direction in his actions. In Angela, a cruel and malicious angel, Gaiman introduced a character who threatened Spawn's existence, as well as providing a moral opposite. Cogliostro was introduced as a mentor character for exposition and instruction, providing guidance. Medieval Spawn introduced a history and precedent that not all Spawns were self-serving or evil, giving additional character development to Malebolgia, the demon that creates Hellspawn.[176][177]

As intended, all three characters were used repeatedly throughout the next decade by Todd McFarlane within the wider Spawn universe.[178] In papers filed by Gaiman in early 2002, however, he claimed that the characters were jointly owned by their scripter (himself) and artist (McFarlane), not merely by McFarlane in his role as the creator of the series.[176][177] Disagreement over who owned the rights to a character was the primary motivation for McFarlane and other artists to form Image Comics (although that argument related more towards disagreements between writers and artists as character creators).[179] As McFarlane used the characters without Gaiman's permission or royalty payments, Gaiman believed his copyrighted work was being infringed upon, which violated their original oral agreement. McFarlane initially agreed that Gaiman had not signed away any rights to the characters, and negotiated with Gaiman to effectively "swap" McFarlane's interest in the character Marvelman.[180] McFarlane had purchased interest in the character when Eclipse Comics was liquidated while Gaiman was interested in being able to continue his aborted run of the Marvelman title. McFarlane later changed his initial position, claiming that Gaiman's work had only been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's creations entirely. The presiding judge, however, ruled against their agreement being work for hire, based in large part on the legal requirement that "copyright assignments must be in writing."[181]

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court ruling in February 2004[182] granting joint ownership of the characters to Gaiman and McFarlane. On the specific issue of Cogliostro, presiding Judge John C. Shabaz proclaimed, "The expressive work that is the comic-book character Count Nicholas Cogliostro was the joint work of Gaiman and McFarlane—their contributions strike us as quite equal—and both are entitled to ownership of the copyright".[183] Similar analysis led to similar results for the other two characters, Angela and Medieval Spawn.

This legal battle was brought by Gaiman and the specifically formed Marvels and Miracles, LLC, which Gaiman had previously created to help sort out the legal rights surrounding Marvelman. Gaiman had written Marvel 1602 in 2003 to help fund this project[184] and all of Gaiman's profits for the original issues of the series were donated to Marvels and Miracles.[184] The rights to Marvelman were subsequently purchased, from original creator Mick Anglo, by Marvel Comics in 2009.[185]

Gaiman returned to court again over the Spawn characters Dark Ages Spawn, Domina and Tiffany, claiming that they were "derivative of the three he co-created with McFarlane."[186] The judge ruled that Gaiman was right in these claims as well and gave McFarlane until the beginning of September 2010 to settle the matter.[187]

Audiobooks

  • The Sandman (narrated by Neil Gaiman), Audible Originals 2021, ASIN B086WQ7J62
  • Stardust (read by Neil Gaiman), HarperAudio 2013, ISBN 978-0-0623-1432-1
  • Neverwhere (read by Neil Gaiman), HarperAudio 2017, ISBN 978-0-06-137387-9
  • Norse Mythology (read by Neil Gaiman), HarperAudio 2017, ISBN 978-0-0628-3448-5

Literary allusions

Gaiman's work is known for a high degree of allusiveness.[188] Dr. Meredith Collins, for instance, has commented upon the degree to which his novel Stardust depends on allusions to Victorian fairy tales and culture.[189] Particularly in The Sandman, literary figures and characters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on G. K. Chesterton, both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from within A Midsummer Night's Dream[190] and The Tempest. The comic also draws from numerous mythologies and historical periods.

Analyzing Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, bibliographer and librarian Richard Bleiler detects patterns of and allusions to the Gothic novel, from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. He concludes that Gaiman is "utilizing works, characters, themes, and settings that generations of scholars have identified and classified as Gothic, ... [yet] subverts them and develops the novel by focusing on the positive aspects of maturation, concentrating on the values of learning, friendship, and sacrifice."[191] Regarding another work's assumed connection and allusions to this form, Gaiman himself quipped: "I've never been able to figure out whether Sandman is a gothic."[192]

Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators.[193] However, Smith's viewpoint is in the minority: to many, if there is a problem with Gaiman scholarship and intertextuality it is that "... his literary merit and vast popularity have propelled him into the nascent comics canon so quickly that there is not yet a basis of critical scholarship about his work."[194]

David Rudd takes a more generous view in his study of the novel Coraline, where he argues that the work plays and riffs productively on Sigmund Freud's notion of the Uncanny, or the Unheimlich.[195]

Though Gaiman's work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces,[196] Gaiman says that he started reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces but refused to finish it: "I think I got about half way through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true – I don't want to know. I really would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."[197]

Selected awards and honours

Bibliography

Main article: Neil Gaiman bibliography

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Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman 2 ˈ ɡ eɪ m en 3 born Neil Richard Gaiman 2 born 10 November 1960 4 is an English author of short fiction novels comic books graphic novels nonfiction audio theatre and films His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust Anansi Boys American Gods Coraline and The Graveyard Book He has won numerous awards including the Hugo Nebula and Bram Stoker awards as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work The Graveyard Book 2008 5 6 In 2013 The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards 7 It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London England that The Independent called theatre at its best 8 Neil GaimanGaiman in 2013BornNeil Richard Gaiman 1960 11 10 10 November 1960 age 62 Portchester Hampshire EnglandOccupationAuthor comic book creator screenwriter voice actorGenreFantasy horror science fiction dark fantasy comedyYears active1984 presentNotable worksThe Sandman Neverwhere American Gods Stardust Coraline The Graveyard Book Good Omens The Ocean at the End of the LaneSpousesMary McGrath m 1985 div 2007 wbr Amanda Palmer m 2011 wbr Children4Neil Gaiman s voice source source source from the BBC programme Saturday Live 12 October 2013 1 Websiteneilgaiman wbr com Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Journalism early writings and literary influences 2 2 Comics 2 3 Novels 2 4 Film and screenwriting 2 5 Radio 2 6 Public performances 2 7 Blog and Twitter 2 8 Use of fountain pens 2 9 Filmography 3 Personal life 3 1 Advocacy 3 2 Friendship with Tori Amos 4 Litigation 5 Audiobooks 6 Literary allusions 7 Selected awards and honours 8 Bibliography 9 References 10 External links 10 1 At other web sitesEarly lifeGaiman s family is of Polish Jewish and other Eastern European Jewish origins 9 His great grandfather emigrated from Antwerp Belgium to the UK before 1914 10 and his grandfather eventually settled in Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores Gaiman s grandfather changed his original family name of Chaiman to Gaiman 11 His father David Bernard Gaiman worked in the same chain of stores 12 his mother Sheila Gaiman nee Goldman was a pharmacist He has two younger sisters Claire and Lizzy 13 After living for a period in the nearby town of Portchester Hampshire where Neil was born in 1960 the Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town one of Gaiman s sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles His other sister Lizzy Calcioli has said Most of our social activities were involved with Scientology or our Jewish family It would get very confusing when people would ask my religion as a kid I d say I m a Jewish Scientologist Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist and that like Judaism Scientology is his family s religion 14 About his personal views Gaiman has stated I think we can say that God exists in the DC Universe I would not stand up and beat the drum for the existence of God in this universe I don t know I think there s probably a 50 50 chance It doesn t really matter to me 15 Gaiman was able to read at the age of four He said I was a reader I loved reading Reading things gave me pleasure I was very good at most subjects in school not because I had any particular aptitude in them but because normally on the first day of school they d hand out schoolbooks and I d read them which would mean that I d know what was coming up because I d read it 16 When he was about ten years old he read his way through the works of Dennis Wheatley where especially The Ka of Gifford Hillary and The Haunting of Toby Jugg made an impact on him 17 One work that made a particular impression on him was J R R Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings from his school library Although the library only had the first two of the novel s three volumes Gaiman consistently checked them out and read them He later won the school English prize and the school reading prize enabling him to finally acquire the third volume 18 For his seventh birthday Gaiman received C S Lewis s The Chronicles of Narnia series He later recalled that I admired his use of parenthetical statements to the reader where he would just talk to you I d think Oh my gosh that is so cool I want to do that When I become an author I want to be able to do things in parentheses I liked the power of putting things in brackets 18 Narnia also introduced him to literary awards specifically the 1956 Carnegie Medal won by the concluding volume When Gaiman won the 2010 Medal himself the press reported him recalling it had to be the most important literary award there ever was 6 and observing if you can make yourself aged seven happy you re really doing well it s like writing a letter to yourself aged seven 5 Gaiman attended Ardingly College in Ardingly West Sussex Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland was another childhood favourite and a favourite forever Alice was default reading to the point where I knew it by heart 18 He also enjoyed Batman comics as a child 18 Gaiman was educated at several Church of England schools including Fonthill School in East Grinstead 19 Ardingly College 1970 1974 and Whitgift School in Croydon 1974 1977 20 His father s position as a public relations official of the Church of Scientology was the cause of the seven year old Gaiman being forced to withdraw from Fonthill School and return to the school which he had previously attended 14 21 He lived in East Grinstead for many years from 1965 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1987 19 He met his first wife Mary McGrath while she was studying Scientology and living in a house in East Grinstead that was owned by his father The couple were married in 1985 after having their first child Michael 14 CareerJournalism early writings and literary influences Writers that Gaiman has mentioned as significant influences include C S Lewis J R R Tolkien Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Rudyard Kipling Edgar Allan Poe Michael Moorcock Dave Sim 22 23 Alan Moore Steve Ditko 24 Will Eisner 25 Ursula K Le Guin Harlan Ellison Lord Dunsany and G K Chesterton 18 26 27 A lifetime fan of the Monty Python comedy troupe as a teenager he owned a copy of Monty Python s Big Red Book 28 During a trip to France when he was 13 Gaiman became fascinated with the visually fantastic world in the stories of Metal Hurlant even though he could not understand the words 29 When he was 19 or 20 years old he contacted his favourite science fiction writer R A Lafferty whom he discovered when he was nine and asked for advice on becoming an author along with a Lafferty pastiche he had written The writer sent Gaiman an encouraging and informative letter back along with literary advice 30 31 Gaiman has said Roger Zelazny was the author who influenced him the most 32 with this influence particularly seen in Gaiman s literary style and the topics he writes about 33 Other authors Gaiman says furnished the inside of my mind and set me to writing include Samuel R Delany and Angela Carter 32 Gaiman takes inspiration from the folk tales tradition citing Otta F Swire s book on the legends of the Isle of Skye as his inspiration for The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains 34 In the early 1980s Gaiman pursued journalism conducting interviews and writing book reviews as a means to learn about the world and to make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published 18 He wrote and reviewed extensively for the British Fantasy Society 35 His first professional short story publication was Featherquest a fantasy story in Imagine Magazine in May 1984 35 When waiting for a train at London s Victoria Station in 1984 Gaiman noticed a copy of Swamp Thing written by Alan Moore and carefully read it Moore s fresh and vigorous approach to comics had such an impact on Gaiman that he later wrote that was the final straw what was left of my resistance crumbled I proceeded to make regular and frequent visits to London s Forbidden Planet shop to buy comics 27 In 1984 he wrote his first book a biography of the band Duran Duran as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief a book of quotations with Kim Newman Although Gaiman thought he had done a terrible job the book s first edition sold out very quickly When he went to relinquish his rights to the book he discovered the publisher had gone bankrupt 18 36 After this he was offered a job by Penthouse He refused the offer 18 He also wrote interviews and articles for many British magazines including Knave During this he sometimes wrote under pseudonyms including Gerry Musgrave Richard Grey and a couple of house names 37 Gaiman has said he ended his journalism career in 1987 because British newspapers regularly publish untruths as fact 38 39 In the late 1980s he wrote Don t Panic The Official Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Companion in what he calls a classic English humour style 40 Following this he wrote the opening of what became his collaboration with fellow English author Terry Pratchett on the comic novel Good Omens about the impending apocalypse 41 Comics source source source source source source source source source source source source Gaiman discusses Sandman in 2014 See also Neil Gaiman bibliography Comics After forming a friendship with comic book writer Alan Moore who taught him how to write comic scripts 27 42 Gaiman started writing comic books and picked up Miracleman after Moore finished his run on the series He continued his professional relationship with Moore by contributing quotations for the supplemental materials in the Watchmen comic book series 42 Gaiman and artist Mark Buckingham collaborated on several issues of the series before its publisher Eclipse Comics collapsed leaving the series unfinished His first published comic strips were four short Future Shocks for 2000 AD in 1986 87 He wrote three graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long time friend Dave McKean Violent Cases Signal to Noise and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch Impressed with his work DC Comics hired him in February 1987 43 and he wrote the limited series Black Orchid 44 45 Karen Berger who later became head of DC Comics s Vertigo read Black Orchid and offered Gaiman a job to re write an old character The Sandman but to put his own spin on him 18 The Sandman tells the tale of the ageless anthropomorphic personification of Dream that is known by many names including Morpheus The series began in January 1989 and concluded in March 1996 46 In the eighth issue of The Sandman Gaiman and artist Mike Dringenberg introduced Death the older sister of Dream who became as popular as the series title character 47 The limited series Death The High Cost of Living launched DC s Vertigo line in 1993 48 The 75 issues of the regular series along with an illustrated prose text and a special containing seven short stories have been collected into 12 volumes that remain in print 14 if the Death The High Cost of Living and Death The Time of Your Life spin offs are included Artists include Sam Kieth Mike Dringenberg Jill Thompson Shawn McManus Marc Hempel and Michael Zulli lettering by Todd Klein colours by Daniel Vozzo and covers by Dave McKean 18 The series became one of DC s top selling titles eclipsing even Batman and Superman 49 Comics historian Les Daniels called Gaiman s work astonishing and noted that The Sandman was a mixture of fantasy horror and ironic humor such as comic books had never seen before 50 51 DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed that The Sandman became the first extraordinary success as a series of graphic novel collections reaching out and converting new readers to the medium particularly young women on college campuses and making Gaiman himself into an iconic cultural figure 52 Gaiman and Jamie Delano were to become co writers of the Swamp Thing series following Rick Veitch An editorial decision by DC to censor Veitch s final storyline caused both Gaiman and Delano to withdraw from the title 53 Gaiman produced two stories for DC s Secret Origins series in 1989 A Poison Ivy 54 tale drawn by Mark Buckingham and a Riddler 55 story illustrated by Bernie Mireault and Matt Wagner A story that Gaiman originally wrote for Action Comics Weekly in 1989 was shelved due to editorial concerns but it was finally published in 2000 as Green Lantern Superman Legend of the Green Flame 56 In 1990 Gaiman wrote The Books of Magic a four part mini series that provided a tour of the mythological and magical parts of the DC Universe through a frame story about an English teenager who discovers that he is destined to be the world s greatest wizard 57 The miniseries was popular and sired an ongoing series written by John Ney Rieber 58 Gaiman s adaptation of Sweeney Todd illustrated by Michael Zulli for Stephen R Bissette s publication Taboo was stopped when the anthology itself was discontinued 59 In the mid 1990s he also created a number of new characters and a setting that was to be featured in a title published by Tekno Comix The concepts were then altered and split between three titles set in the same continuity Lady Justice Mr Hero the Newmatic Man and Teknophage 60 and tie ins Although Gaiman s name appeared prominently as creator of the characters he was not involved in writing any of the above mentioned books Gaiman wrote a semi autobiographical story about a boy s fascination with Michael Moorcock s anti hero Elric of Melnibone for Ed Kramer s anthology Tales of the White Wolf In 1996 Gaiman and Ed Kramer co edited The Sandman Book of Dreams Nominated for the British Fantasy Award the original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos Clive Barker Gene Wolfe Tad Williams and others Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling Gaiman said One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was in many ways untouched ground It was virgin territory When I was working on Sandman I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before When I m writing novels I m painfully aware that I m working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw droppingly brilliant things for you know three four thousand years now You know you can go back We have things like The Golden Ass And you go well I don t know that I m as good as that and that s two and a half thousand years old But with comics I felt like I can do stuff nobody has ever done I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of And I could and it was enormously fun 61 Gaiman wrote two series for Marvel Comics Marvel 1602 was an eight issue limited series published from November 2003 to June 2004 with art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove 62 The Eternals was a seven issue limited series drawn by John Romita Jr which was published from August 2006 to March 2007 63 64 In 2009 Gaiman wrote a two part Batman story for DC Comics to follow Batman R I P titled Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader 65 a play off of the classic Superman story Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow by Alan Moore 66 67 He contributed a twelve part Metamorpho serial drawn by Mike Allred for Wednesday Comics a weekly newspaper style series 68 69 Gaiman and Paul Cornell co wrote Action Comics 894 December 2010 which featured an appearance by Death 70 In October 2013 DC Comics released The Sandman Overture with art by J H Williams III 71 72 Gaiman s Angela character was introduced into the Marvel Universe in the last issue of the Age of Ultron miniseries in 2013 73 Gaiman oversaw The Sandman Universe a line of comic books published by Vertigo The four series House of Whispers Lucifer The Books of Magic and The Dreaming were written by new creative teams The line launched on 8 August 2018 74 75 Novels See also Neil Gaiman bibliography Novels and children s books Gaiman in 2009 In a collaboration with author Terry Pratchett best known for his series of Discworld novels Gaiman s first novel Good Omens was published in 1990 In 2011 Pratchett said that while the entire novel was a collaborative effort and most of the ideas could be credited to both of them Pratchett did a larger portion of writing and editing if for no other reason than Gaiman s scheduled involvement with Sandman 76 The 1996 novelisation of Gaiman s teleplay for the BBC mini series Neverwhere was his first solo novel The novel was released in tandem with the television series though it presents some notable differences from the television series Gaiman has since revised the novel twice the first time for an American audience unfamiliar with the London Underground the second time because he felt unsatisfied with the originals 77 In 1999 first printings of his fantasy novel Stardust were released The novel has been released both as a standard novel and in an illustrated text edition 78 This novel was highly influenced by Victorian fairytales and culture 79 American Gods became one of Gaiman s best selling and multi award winning novels upon its release in 2001 80 A special 10th Anniversary edition was released with the author s preferred text 12 000 words longer than the original mass market editions 81 Gaiman has not written a direct sequel to American Gods but he has revisited the characters A glimpse at Shadow s travels in Europe is found in a short story which finds him in Scotland applying the same concepts developed in American Gods to the story of Beowulf The 2005 novel Anansi Boys deals with Anansi Mr Nancy tracing the relationship of his two sons one semi divine and the other an unassuming bookkeeper as they explore their common heritage It debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list 82 In late 2008 Gaiman released a new children s book The Graveyard Book It follows the adventures of a boy named Bod after his family is murdered and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard It is heavily influenced by Rudyard Kipling s The Jungle Book As of late January 2009 update it had been on The New York Times Bestseller children s list for fifteen weeks 83 In 2013 The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards 7 The novel follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier 84 Themes include the search for self identity and the disconnect between childhood and adulthood 85 In September 2016 Neil Gaiman announced that he had been working for some years on retellings of Norse mythology 86 Norse Mythology was released in February 2017 87 Several of his novels have been published as paperbacks with retro covers by artist Robert McGinnis 88 89 Film and screenwriting See also Neil Gaiman bibliography Film Gaiman wrote the 1996 BBC dark fantasy television series Neverwhere He cowrote the screenplay for the movie MirrorMask with his old friend Dave McKean for McKean to direct In addition he wrote the localised English language script to the anime movie Princess Mononoke based on a translation of the Japanese script 90 After his disappointment with the production limitations of Neverwhere Gaiman asked his agent to pull him out an unnamed UK television series that was to begin production immediately afterward I didn t want to do it unless I had more control than you get as a writer in fantasy the tone of voice the look and feel the way something is shot and edited is vital and I wanted to be in charge of that 91 He cowrote the script for Robert Zemeckis s Beowulf with Roger Avary a collaboration that has proved productive for both writers 92 Gaiman has expressed interest in collaborating on a film adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh 93 Gaiman on a panel about the Good Omens TV series at New York Comic Con in 2018 He was the only person other than J Michael Straczynski to write a Babylon 5 script in the series last three seasons contributing the season five episode Day of the Dead 90 The series also features a recurring alien race called the Gaim who resemble the character of Dream and are named after Gaiman Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of Nicholson Baker s novel The Fermata for director Robert Zemeckis 94 95 although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made The Polar Express and the Gaiman Roger Avary written Beowulf film Neil Gaiman was featured in the History Channel documentary Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked 96 Several of Gaiman s original works have been optioned or greenlighted for film adaptation most notably Stardust which premiered in August 2007 and stars Charlie Cox Robert De Niro Michelle Pfeiffer Claire Danes and Mark Strong directed by Matthew Vaughn A stop motion version of Coraline was released on 6 February 2009 with Henry Selick directing and Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher in the leading voice actor roles 14 In 2007 Gaiman announced that after ten years in development the feature film of Death The High Cost of Living would finally begin production with a screenplay by Gaiman that he would direct for Warner Independent Gaiman said that he agreed to direct the film with the carrot dangled in front of me that I could direct it And we ll see if that happens and if I m a good director or not 91 Don Murphy and Susan Montford were named as producers and Guillermo del Toro was named as the film s executive producer 97 98 By 2010 it had been reported that the film was no longer in production 99 Seeing Ear Theatre performed two of Gaiman s audio theatre plays Snow Glass Apples Gaiman s retelling of Snow White and Murder Mysteries a story of heaven before the Fall in which the first crime is committed Both audio plays were published in the collection Smoke and Mirrors in 1998 100 At Guillermo del Toro s request he rewrote the opening of Hellboy II The Golden Army to make it look more like a fairy tale 101 Gaiman s 2009 Newbery Medal winning book The Graveyard Book will be made into a movie with Ron Howard as the director 102 Gaiman wrote an episode of the long running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who broadcast in 2011 during Matt Smith s second series as the Doctor 103 Shooting began in August 2010 for this episode the original title of which was The House of Nothing 104 but which was eventually transmitted as The Doctor s Wife 105 The episode won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form 106 107 Gaiman made his return to Doctor Who with an episode titled Nightmare in Silver broadcast on 11 May 2013 108 109 In 2011 it was announced that Gaiman would be writing the script to a new film version of Journey to the West 110 111 Gaiman appeared as himself on The Simpsons episode The Book Job which broadcast on 20 November 2011 112 113 114 In 2015 Starz greenlighted a series adaptation of Gaiman s novel American Gods Bryan Fuller and Michael Green wrote and showrun the series 115 In 2020 Gaiman received a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form for the TV miniseries adaption of Good Omens for which he wrote the screenplay 116 Radio A six part radio play of Neverwhere was broadcast in March 2013 adapted by Dirk Maggs for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra Featured stars include James McAvoy as Richard Natalie Dormer Benedict Cumberbatch Christopher Lee Bernard Cribbens and Johnny Vegas 117 In September 2014 Gaiman and Terry Pratchett joined forces with BBC Radio 4 to make the first ever dramatisation of their co penned novel Good Omens which was broadcast in December in five half hour episodes and culminated in an hour long final apocalyptic showdown 41 In 2021 Gaiman was cast as Duke Aubrey in an adaptation of Hope Mirrlees Lud in the Mist a novel Gaiman had previously proclaimed one of his favourites and contributed a foreword for an edition by Cold Spring Press for BBC Radio 4 118 Public performances Gaiman frequently performs public readings from his stories and poetry and has toured with his wife musician Amanda Palmer In some of these performances he has also sung songs in a novelist s version of singing 119 despite having no kind of singing voice 120 In 2015 Gaiman delivered a 100 minute lecture for the Long Now Foundation entitled How Stories Last about the nature of storytelling and how stories persist in human culture 121 In April 2018 Gaiman made a guest appearance on the television show The Big Bang Theory and his tweet about the show s fictional comic book store becomes the central theme of the episode The Comet Polarization 122 Blog and Twitter In February 2001 when Gaiman had completed writing American Gods his publishers set up a promotional website featuring a weblog in which Gaiman described the day to day process of revising publishing and promoting the novel After the novel was published the website evolved into a more general Official Neil Gaiman Website 123 Gaiman generally posts to the blog describing the day to day process of being Neil Gaiman and writing revising publishing or promoting whatever the current project is He also posts reader emails and answers questions which gives him unusually direct and immediate interaction with fans One of his answers on why he writes the blog is because writing is like death a lonely business 124 The original American Gods blog was extracted for publication in the NESFA Press collection of Gaiman miscellany Adventures in the Dream Trade 125 To celebrate the seventh anniversary of the blog the novel American Gods was provided free of charge online for a month 126 Gaiman is an active user of the social networking site Twitter with over 2 7 million followers as of June 2018 update using the username neilhimself 127 In 2013 Gaiman was named by IGN as one of The Best Tweeters in Comics describing his posts as sublime 128 Gaiman also runs a Tumblr account on which he primarily answers fan questions 129 In January 2022 when the board of trustees of McMinn County Schools in Tennessee in a 10 0 decision removed the Pulitzer Prize winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus from its curriculum for 8th grade English classes overriding a State curriculum decision Gaiman was critical of the decision He tweeted There s only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus whatever they are calling themselves these days 130 Use of fountain pens Gaiman is a dedicated user of fountain pens 131 and has said that he writes the first draft of all his books with one He began this practice with Stardust which he wrote in fountain pen in order to capture the feeling of the 1920s 132 He is most closely associated with the Pilot 823 one of which he has said he has used for giving over one million signatures 133 Filmography Neil Gaiman film work Year Title Role Notes2010 Arthur Himself Voice Falafelosophy 2011 The Guild Himself Downturn 2011 The Simpsons Himself Voice The Book Job 2013 Jay amp Silent Bob s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie Albert the Manservant Voice 2015 The Making of a Superhero Musical Melvin Morel2016 Neil Gaiman Dream Dangerously Himself2017 The Simpsons Snowball Voice Treehouse of Horror XXVIII 2018 The Big Bang Theory Himself The Comet Polarization 2018 Lucifer God Voice Once Upon a Time 2019 Good Omens Man in the theatre Bunny Rabbit Head Frog 134 Saturday Morning Funtime 2021 The Sparks Brothers SelfPersonal life Gaiman and wife Amanda Palmer in Vienna 2011 Gaiman has lived near Menomonie Wisconsin since 1992 Gaiman moved there to be close to the family of his then wife Mary McGrath with whom he has three children 18 135 136 137 138 139 As of 2013 update Gaiman also resides in Cambridge Massachusetts 140 In 2014 he took up a five year appointment as professor in the arts at Bard College in Annandale on Hudson New York 141 Gaiman is married to songwriter and performer Amanda Palmer with whom he has an open marriage 142 The couple announced that they were dating in June 2009 143 144 and announced their engagement on Twitter on 1 January 2010 145 On 16 November 2010 Palmer hosted a non legally binding flash mob wedding for Gaiman s birthday in New Orleans 146 They were legally married on 2 January 2011 147 The wedding took place in the parlour of writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon 2 148 On marrying Palmer he took her middle name MacKinnon as one of his names 2 In September 2015 they had a son 149 In March 2020 Gaiman Palmer and their son were in Havelock North Hawke s Bay when New Zealand s government announced that due to the COVID 19 pandemic the whole country would move to COVID 19 Alert Level 4 complete lockdown and quarantining of people within their own homes 150 In May 2020 Gaiman travelled from New Zealand to his holiday home on the Isle of Skye breaking the lockdown rules Ross Skye and Lochaber MP Ian Blackford described his behaviour as unacceptable and dangerous 151 Gaiman published an apology on his website saying he had endangered the local community 152 After Gaiman s departure Palmer announced on her Patreon that she and Gaiman had separated and requested privacy 153 Gaiman stated in a blog post that their split was my fault I m afraid and also requesting privacy The couple later released a joint statement clarifying that they were not however getting divorced 154 They reconciled in 2021 155 156 but in November 2022 they released a joint statement to announce they were divorcing 157 158 Advocacy In 2016 Gaiman as well as several prominent celebrities appeared in the video What They Took With Them from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to help raise awareness of the issue of global refugees 159 160 Gaiman is a supporter of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and has served on its board of directors 161 In 2013 Gaiman was named co chair of the organization s newly formed advisory board 162 In 2022 during Russian invasion of Ukraine Gaiman supported Ukraine by announcing on Twitter that he doesn t want to renew contracts with Russian publishers 163 The writer also encouraged donations to Ukrainian refugees 164 165 Friendship with Tori Amos One of Gaiman s most commented upon friendships is with the musician Tori Amos a Sandman fan who became friends with Gaiman after making a reference to Neil and the Dream King on her 1991 demo tape He included her in turn as a character a talking tree in his novel Stardust 166 Amos also mentions Gaiman in her songs Tear in Your Hand If you need me me and Neil ll be hangin out with the dream king Neil says hi by the way 167 Space Dog Where s Neil when you need him 168 Horses But will you find me if Neil makes me a tree 169 Carbon Get me Neil on the line no I can t hold Have him read Snow Glass Apples where nothing is what it seems 170 Sweet Dreams You re forgetting to fly darling when you sleep 171 and Not Dying Today Neil is thrilled he can claim he s mammalian but the bad news he said girl you re a dandelion 170 He also wrote stories for the tour book of Boys for Pele and Scarlet s Walk a letter for the tour book of American Doll Posse and the stories behind each girl in her album Strange Little Girls Amos penned the introduction for his novel Death the High Cost of Living and posed for the cover She also wrote a song called Sister Named Desire based on his Sandman character which was included on his anthology Where s Neil When You Need Him Gaiman is godfather to Tori Amos s daughter Tash 172 and wrote a poem called Blueberry Girl for Tori and Tash 173 The poem has been turned into a book by the illustrator Charles Vess 174 Gaiman read the poem aloud to an audience at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in San Francisco on 5 October 2008 during his book reading tour for The Graveyard Book 175 It was published in March 2009 with the title Blueberry Girl LitigationIn 1993 Gaiman was contracted by Todd McFarlane to write a single issue of Spawn a popular title at the newly created Image Comics company McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman Alan Moore Frank Miller and Dave Sim each write a single issue 176 177 In issue No 9 of the series Gaiman introduced the characters Angela Cogliostro and Medieval Spawn Prior to this issue Spawn was an assassin who worked for the government and came back as a reluctant agent of Hell but had no real direction in his actions In Angela a cruel and malicious angel Gaiman introduced a character who threatened Spawn s existence as well as providing a moral opposite Cogliostro was introduced as a mentor character for exposition and instruction providing guidance Medieval Spawn introduced a history and precedent that not all Spawns were self serving or evil giving additional character development to Malebolgia the demon that creates Hellspawn 176 177 As intended all three characters were used repeatedly throughout the next decade by Todd McFarlane within the wider Spawn universe 178 In papers filed by Gaiman in early 2002 however he claimed that the characters were jointly owned by their scripter himself and artist McFarlane not merely by McFarlane in his role as the creator of the series 176 177 Disagreement over who owned the rights to a character was the primary motivation for McFarlane and other artists to form Image Comics although that argument related more towards disagreements between writers and artists as character creators 179 As McFarlane used the characters without Gaiman s permission or royalty payments Gaiman believed his copyrighted work was being infringed upon which violated their original oral agreement McFarlane initially agreed that Gaiman had not signed away any rights to the characters and negotiated with Gaiman to effectively swap McFarlane s interest in the character Marvelman 180 McFarlane had purchased interest in the character when Eclipse Comics was liquidated while Gaiman was interested in being able to continue his aborted run of the Marvelman title McFarlane later changed his initial position claiming that Gaiman s work had only been work for hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman s creations entirely The presiding judge however ruled against their agreement being work for hire based in large part on the legal requirement that copyright assignments must be in writing 181 The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court ruling in February 2004 182 granting joint ownership of the characters to Gaiman and McFarlane On the specific issue of Cogliostro presiding Judge John C Shabaz proclaimed The expressive work that is the comic book character Count Nicholas Cogliostro was the joint work of Gaiman and McFarlane their contributions strike us as quite equal and both are entitled to ownership of the copyright 183 Similar analysis led to similar results for the other two characters Angela and Medieval Spawn This legal battle was brought by Gaiman and the specifically formed Marvels and Miracles LLC which Gaiman had previously created to help sort out the legal rights surrounding Marvelman Gaiman had written Marvel 1602in 2003 to help fund this project 184 and all of Gaiman s profits for the original issues of the series were donated to Marvels and Miracles 184 The rights to Marvelman were subsequently purchased from original creator Mick Anglo by Marvel Comics in 2009 185 Gaiman returned to court again over the Spawn characters Dark Ages Spawn Domina and Tiffany claiming that they were derivative of the three he co created with McFarlane 186 The judge ruled that Gaiman was right in these claims as well and gave McFarlane until the beginning of September 2010 to settle the matter 187 AudiobooksThe Sandman narrated by Neil Gaiman Audible Originals 2021 ASIN B086WQ7J62 Stardust read by Neil Gaiman HarperAudio 2013 ISBN 978 0 0623 1432 1 Neverwhere read by Neil Gaiman HarperAudio 2017 ISBN 978 0 06 137387 9 Norse Mythology read by Neil Gaiman HarperAudio 2017 ISBN 978 0 0628 3448 5Literary allusionsGaiman s work is known for a high degree of allusiveness 188 Dr Meredith Collins for instance has commented upon the degree to which his novel Stardust depends on allusions to Victorian fairy tales and culture 189 Particularly in The Sandman literary figures and characters appear often the character of Fiddler s Green is modelled visually on G K Chesterton both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters as do several characters from within A Midsummer Night s Dream 190 and The Tempest The comic also draws from numerous mythologies and historical periods Analyzing Gaiman s The Graveyard Book bibliographer and librarian Richard Bleiler detects patterns of and allusions to the Gothic novel from Horace Walpole s The Castle of Otranto to Shirley Jackson s The Haunting of Hill House He concludes that Gaiman is utilizing works characters themes and settings that generations of scholars have identified and classified as Gothic yet subverts them and develops the novel by focusing on the positive aspects of maturation concentrating on the values of learning friendship and sacrifice 191 Regarding another work s assumed connection and allusions to this form Gaiman himself quipped I ve never been able to figure out whether Sandman is a gothic 192 Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works often to the exclusion of his collaborators 193 However Smith s viewpoint is in the minority to many if there is a problem with Gaiman scholarship and intertextuality it is that his literary merit and vast popularity have propelled him into the nascent comics canon so quickly that there is not yet a basis of critical scholarship about his work 194 David Rudd takes a more generous view in his study of the novel Coraline where he argues that the work plays and riffs productively on Sigmund Freud s notion of the Uncanny or the Unheimlich 195 Though Gaiman s work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in Joseph Campbell s The Hero with a Thousand Faces 196 Gaiman says that he started reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces but refused to finish it I think I got about half way through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true I don t want to know I really would rather not know this stuff I d rather do it because it s true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is 197 Selected awards and honoursFrom 1991 to 1993 Gaiman won Harvey Awards in the following categories 1991 Best Writer for The Sandman 198 1992 Best Writer for The Sandman 199 1993 Best Continuing or Limited Series for The Sandman 200 From 1991 to 2014 Gaiman won Locus Awards in the following categories 1991 Best Fantasy Novel runner up for Good Omens by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 201 202 1999 Best Fantasy Novel runner up for Stardust 201 203 2002 Best Fantasy Novel for American Gods 201 204 2003 Best Young Adult Book for Coraline 201 205 2004 Best Novelette for A Study in Emerald 201 2005 Best Short Story for Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire 201 2006 Best Fantasy novel for Anansi Boys 201 The book was also nominated for a Hugo Award but Gaiman asked for it to be withdrawn from the list stating that he wanted to give other writers a chance and that it was really more fantasy than science fiction 206 2006 Best Short Story for Sunbird 201 2007 Best Short Story for How to Talk to Girls at Parties 201 2007 Best Collection for Fragile Things 201 2009 Best Young Adult novel for The Graveyard Book 201 2010 Best Short Story for An Invocation of Incuriosity 201 published in Songs of the Dying Earth 207 2011 Best Short Story for The Thing About Cassandra published in Songs of Love and Death 201 208 2011 Best Novelette for The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains 201 published in Stories 208 2014 Best Fantasy Novel for The Ocean at the End of the Lane From 1991 to 2022 Gaiman won Eisner Awards in the following categories 1991 Best Continuing Series Sandman by Neil Gaiman and various artists DC 209 1991 Best Graphic Album Reprint Sandman The Doll s House by Neil Gaiman and various artists DC 209 1991 Best Writer Neil Gaiman Sandman DC 209 1992 Best Single Issue or Story Sandman 22 28 Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman and various artists DC 209 1992 Best Continuing Series Sandman by Neil Gaiman and various artists DC 209 1992 Best Writer Neil Gaiman Sandman Books of Magic DC Miracleman Eclipse 209 1993 Best Continuing Series Sandman by Neil Gaiman and various artists DC 209 1993 Best Graphic Album New Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean VG Graphics Dark Horse 209 1993 Best Writer Neil Gaiman Miracleman Eclipse Sandman DC 209 1994 Best Writer Neil Gaiman Sandman DC Vertigo Death The High Cost of Living DC Vertigo 209 2000 Best Comics Related Book The Sandman The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano DC Vertigo 210 2004 Best Short Story Death by Neil Gaiman and P Craig Russell in The Sandman Endless Nights Vertigo DC 210 2004 Best Anthology The Sandman Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman and others edited by Karen Berger and Shelly Bond Vertigo DC 210 2007 Best Archival Collection Project Comic Books Absolute Sandman vol 1 by Neil Gaiman and various Vertigo DC 210 2009 Best Publication for Teens Tweens Coraline by Neil Gaiman adapted by P Craig Russell HarperCollins Children s Books 210 2020 Best Adaptation from Another Medium Neil Gaiman s Snow Glass Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran Dark Horse Comics 211 2021 Inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame 212 2022 Best Graphic Album Reprint The Complete American Gods by Neil Gaiman P Craig Russell and Scott Hampton Dark Horse 213 In 1991 Gaiman received an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic Con International 214 From 2000 to 2004 Gaiman won Bram Stoker Awards in the following categories 2000 Best Illustrated Narrative for The Sandman The Dream Hunters 201 215 2001 Best Novel for American Gods 201 2003 Best Work for Young Readers for Coraline 201 216 2004 Best Illustrated Narrative for The Sandman Endless Nights 201 From 2002 to 2020 Gaiman won Hugo Awards in the following categories 2002 Best Novel for American Gods 201 217 2003 Best Novella for Coraline 201 2004 Best Short Story for A Study in Emerald in a ceremony the author presided over himself having volunteered for the job before his story was nominated 201 2009 Best Novel for The Graveyard Book 201 presented at the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal where he was also the Professional Guest of Honor 218 219 2012 Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form for The Doctor s Wife 106 107 2016 Best Graphic Story for The Sandman Overture 220 2020 Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form for Good Omens 221 From 2002 to 2003 Gaiman won Nebula Awards in the following categories 2002 Best Novel for American Gods 201 217 2003 Best Novella for Coraline 201 From 2006 to 2010 Gaiman won British Fantasy Awards in the following categories 2006 Best Novel for Anansi Boys 201 222 2007 British Fantasy Award collection for Fragile Things 201 2009 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel shortlist for The Graveyard Book 223 2010 British Fantasy Award comic graphic novel Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader by Gaiman and Andy Kubert 201 In 2010 Gaiman won Shirley Jackson Awards in the following categories 2010 Best Novelette for The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains 224 2010 Best Edited Anthology for Stories All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio William Morrow 224 1991 World Fantasy Award for short fiction for the Sandman issue A Midsummer Night s Dream by Gaiman and Charles Vess 201 1991 1993 Comics Buyer s Guide Award for Favorite Writer 1997 2000 Comics Buyer s Guide Award for Favorite Writer nominations 1997 Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Defender of Liberty award 225 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for the illustrated version of Stardust 201 226 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award short fiction for Coraline 201 2004 Angouleme International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario for The Sandman Season of Mists 227 2005 The William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie nomination for MirrorMask The other nominated films were Green Street Hooligans Nine Lives Up for Grabs and Opie Gets Laid 228 2005 Quill Book Award for Graphic Novels for Marvel 1602 229 2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for Anansi Boys 201 2007 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award 230 2007 Comic Con Icon award presented at the Scream Awards 231 2009 Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book 232 2009 Audie Award Children s 8 12 and Audiobook of the year for the audio version of The Graveyard Book 233 2009 The Booktrust Teenage Prize for The Graveyard Book 2010 Gaiman was selected as the Honorary Chair of National Library Week by the American Library Association 234 2010 Carnegie Medal for The Graveyard Book becoming the first author to have won both the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work 5 6 235 236 237 2011 Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation with Richard Clark for The Doctor s Wife 238 2012 Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of the Arts 239 2013 National Book Awards British Book of the Year winner for The Ocean at the End of the Lane 240 2016 University of St Andrews Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters 241 2018 Nomination for the New Academy Prize in Literature 242 2019 Barnes amp Noble Writers for Writers Award celebrat ing authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community Gaiman was given the award for advocating for freedom of expression worldwide and inspiring countless writers 243 BibliographyMain article Neil Gaiman bibliographyReferences Neil Gaiman Saturday Live 12 October 2013 BBC Radio 4 Retrieved 18 January 2014 a b c d Born as Neil Richard Gaiman with 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prominent spokesman in Britain for scientology which has its headquarters at East Grinstead Neil Gaiman By the Book The New York Times 3 May 2012 Retrieved 20 July 2021 Gaiman Neil 7 August 1992 300 Good Reasons to Resent Dave Sim Comics Buyer s Guide Iola Wisconsin Darren Wilshaw 21 May 2017 In Search Of Steve Ditko 2007 archived from the original on 28 October 2021 retrieved 19 August 2018 Gaiman Neil 7 March 2017 Neil Gaiman on Will Eisner He thought comics were an artform he was right The Guardian Retrieved 19 August 2018 Gaiman Neil 18 October 2014 My hero Mary Shelley by Neil Gaiman The Guardian Archived from the original on 6 June 2015 a b c Olsen Steven P 2005 Neil Gaiman Library of Graphic Novelists New York New York Rosen Publishing pp 16 18 ISBN 978 1404202856 Monty Python s greatest skits The Guardian Retrieved 25 August 2019 Goldsmith Jeffrey May 1998 Heavy Metal Interview with Neil Gaiman pp 10 11 Ball Natasha 11 May 2014 Lafferty Lost and Found This Land Press Archived 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Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 235 ISBN 978 0 7566 6742 9 Neil Gaiman scripted the complex Black Orchid prestige format limited series in December 1988 re envisioning the character with the help of artist Dave McKean Manning 1980s in Dolan p 238 In arguably one of the greatest achievements in serialized modern comic books writer Neil Gaiman crafted the seventy five issue ongoing series The Sandman introducing its readers to a complex world of horror and fantasy Manning 1980s in Dolan p 240 Neil Gaiman aided by penciller Mike Dringenberg introduced the character Death to a fascinated readership Death was an instant hit and arguably became more popular than the Sandman himself Manning 1990s in Dolan p 262 In March 1993 DC Comics debuted a three issue limited series entitled Death The High Cost of Living Written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by future comics superstar Chris Bachalo The High Cost of Living had one notable trait besides a brilliant story its cover bore a new logo With this debut DC s provocative new mature reader imprint Vertigo was born Hoad Phil 21 October 2013 Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean how we made The Sandman The Guardian Archived from the original on 25 October 2013 Daniels Les 1995 The Sandman s Coming A New Approach to Making Myths DC Comics Sixty Years of the World s Favorite Comic Book Heroes New York New York Bulfinch Press p 206 ISBN 978 0821220764 The Inevitable Post About Neil Gaiman s The Sandman NPR Archived from the original on 16 August 2017 Retrieved 16 August 2017 Levitz Paul 2010 The Dark Age 1984 1998 75 Years of DC Comics The Art of Modern Mythmaking Cologne Germany Taschen p 567 ISBN 9783836519816 Duncan Randy Smith Matthew J 2013 Icons of the American Comic Book From Captain America to Wonder Woman Volume 1 Santa Barbara California Greenwood Publishing Group pp 741 742 ISBN 978 0313399237 DC s censorship of Veitch s Swamp Thing 88 1989 had a lasting negative impact on the series With Veitch s immediate departure the team that had been groomed to follow Veitch writers Neil Gaiman and Jamie Delano also left the title in solidarity with Veitch Manning Matthew K Dougall Alastair 2014 1980s Batman A Visual History London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 183 ISBN 978 1465424563 Secret Origins No 36 Neil Gaiman gave readers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Poison Ivy s mind Manning 1980s in Dougall 2014 p 179 Secret Origins Special No 1 Gaiman wrote the Riddler s tale with the help of artist Bernie Mireault Martin Brian August 2017 Where the Action is Weekly Back Issue 98 77 Manning 1990s in Dolan p 247 Neil Gaiman chronicled the adventures of magic pupil Timothy Hunter in this miniseries each issue explored the realms of magic as portrayed by a different painter Andreasen Henrik 1 December 1995 Interview with John Ney Rieber Serie Journalen Archived from the original on 20 June 2008 Johnston Rich 5 June 2012 Get Your Free Neil Gaiman And Michael Zulli Sweeney Todd Comic Here Bleeding Cool Archived from the original on 9 July 2012 Retrieved 21 August 2013 Teknophage Neilgaiman info 23 July 2008 Archived from the original on 21 July 2011 Retrieved 26 July 2011 Ogline Tim E 20 November 2007 Myth Magic and the Mind of Neil Gaiman Wild River Review Archived from the original on 15 September 2012 Retrieved 21 November 2007 Manning Matthew K Gilbert Laura 2008 2000s Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 317 ISBN 978 0756641238 Neil Gaiman took his creative vision and penchant for times past to Marvel crafting this eight issue limited series alongside fan favorite artist Andy Kubert Digitally painted by Richard Isanove this series took an alternative look at what the classic Marvel pantheon would be like if they had existed in the 17th century Richards Dave 9 June 2006 Following in the Footsteps Romita Talks Eternals Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on 15 October 2013 Retrieved 25 October 2013 MacQuarrie Jim 3 August 2007 CCI XTRA Spotlight on Neil Gaiman Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on 7 October 2012 Retrieved 25 October 2013 Cowsill Alan 2000s in Dolan p 337 Writer Neil Gaiman and art legend Andy Kubert teamed up to present a touching imaginary tale of a wake for the dead Batman A love song to the Dark Knight s long history it went on to win SFX s Best Comic award in 2010 Tabu Hannibal 27 July 2008 CCI DC One Weekend Later Gaiman on Batman Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on 23 October 2013 Retrieved 4 August 2008 Brady Matt 27 July 2008 SDCC 08 More on Gaiman Batman with Dan DiDio Newsarama Archived from the original on 25 October 2013 Cowsill 2000s in Dolan p 338 The series contained fifteen continuous stories including Metamorpho scripted by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Michael Allred Minnick Remy 30 January 2009 Gaiman amp Allred on Metamorpho Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on 20 October 2013 Retrieved 31 January 2009 Johnston Rich 23 September 2010 Neil Gaiman Co Wrote Action Comics 894 BleedingCool com Archived from the original on 19 October 2011 Retrieved 25 October 2013 Armitage Hugh 13 July 2012 Neil Gaiman returns to The Sandman Comic Con 2012 Digital Spy Archived from the original on 22 May 2013 Hudson Laura 25 July 2013 25 Years Later Neil Gaiman s Sandman Returns With a Prequel Wired Archived from the original on 1 September 2013 Sunu Steve 21 March 2013 Gaiman Returns to Marvel Brings Spawn s Angela Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on 23 March 2013 Retrieved 23 March 2013 Later this year writer Neil Gaiman makes his return to Marvel Comics Perhaps even more intriguing is the announcement that Gaiman plans to introduce Angela to the Marvel U Bishop Bryan 1 March 2018 Neil Gaiman is turning The Sandman into an expanded comics universe The Verge Archived from the original on 2 March 2018 Retrieved 29 April 2018 Polo Susana 1 March 2018 The Sandman Universe is Neil Gaiman s next comics project Polygon Archived 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Retro Cover for Neil Gaiman s Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman Covers tumblr a b Wagner Hank Golden Christopher Bissette Stephen R 2008 The Scripts Prince of Stories The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman New York New York St Martin s Press pp 413 448 ISBN 978 0 312 38765 5 a b Gaiman Neil 2016 The View from the Cheap Seats Selected Nonfiction New York NY p 242 ISBN 978 0 06 226226 4 OCLC 939277355 Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary Shaping Beowulf s story Stv tv 2007 Archived from the original on 25 June 2012 Ambrose Tom December 2007 He Is Legend Empire p 142 Neil Gaiman s Film Work Neil Gaiman com 13 August 2007 Archived from the original on 20 September 2013 Retrieved 2 August 2010 Burns Tom n d Neil Gaiman Takes Hollywood UGO com Archived from the original on 13 May 2011 Retrieved 2 August 2010 Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked Television production Stephen Kroopnick Stu Schreiberg James Grant Goldin Melody Shafir Susan Werbe Narrated by Keith David Featuring Neil Gaiman New York Triage Entertainment Inc 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neighbouring countries from Ukraine If you do just one thing today please donate to Refugees Tweet Retrieved 12 March 2022 via Twitter Killing Gaiman Evaristo writers from around the world call for donations for Ukrainian refugees chytomo com 4 March 2022 Retrieved 12 March 2022 Tori Amos Tear in Your Hand Little Earthquakes Tear in Your Hand Everything Tori Archived from the original on 23 September 2010 Retrieved 2 August 2010 Space Dog Everything Tori Archived from the original on 23 September 2010 Retrieved 2 August 2010 Beauty Queen Horses Everything Tori Archived from the original on 22 September 2010 Retrieved 2 August 2010 a b Carbon Everything Tori Archived from the original on 22 September 2010 Retrieved 2 August 2010 Sweet Dreams Everything Tori Archived from the original on 22 September 2010 Retrieved 2 August 2010 Neil Gaiman s Journal listening to unresolving Journal neilgaiman com 30 November 2004 Retrieved 2 August 2010 Neil Gaiman s Journal Blueberry Girls Journal 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s share of the profits See Khoury George Image Comics The Road To Independence TwoMorrows Publishing 2007 ISBN 1 893905 71 3 See Judge Shabaz s ruling Archived 5 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine A tentative agreement was reached that Gaiman would exchange his rights in Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro for McFarlane s rights in another comic book character Miracleman Judge Shabaz Official ruling Archived 5 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine as per Schiller amp Schmidt Inc v Nordisco Corp 969 F 2d 410 413 7th Cir 1992 Yarbrough Beau 3 October 2002 Gaiman in Stunning Victory over McFarlane in Spawn Case Jury Finds for Gaiman on All Counts Comic Book Resources Retrieved 22 September 2008 See Judge Shabaz s ruling Archived 5 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine for similar statements on Angela and Medieval Spawn a b Weiland Jonah 27 June 2003 Marvel s 1602 Press Conference Comic Book Resources Retrieved 22 September 2008 Phegley Kiel 24 July 2009 CCI Marvel Acquires Marvelman Comic Book 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