Check out Scott McCloud’s new column at The Comic Reader, called “I Can’t Stop Thinking”.
It happened a week or two back, but a big thank you to everyone out there visiting The Dreaming. We hit half a million visits to The Dreaming’s front page alone.
I’m touched, flattered and very happy that you’ve found this site useful.
I’ll also take this time to send out a big “Thank you bunches!” to Lucy Anne, who has really been doing a great job since the news script allowed her to post here.
Dylan Verheul (of the web site The Wake) posted this info to a.f.n-g:
It’s official Princess Mononoke will finally be released on DVD 8/29
(day and date with VHS). Staring Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson,
Minnie Driver and Billy Bob Thornton, Princess Mononoke was rated one
of the top films of 1999 by Roger Ebert! The DVD will be enhanced for
16X9 TVs and have the film’s trailer and featurette. Preorder Princess
Mononoke at Express.com at 40% off!
Yet more odds and ends I don’t think I have seen here.
- The Life and Death of Wanda
- Whistling Past the Graveyard - An article from ConCat
- Omnimag Chat - 11 July 1996
- Student Life interview - 20 Mar 1998
- Philadelphia City Paper - 28 Jan 1999
- Digital Cardinal (Wisc) - 2 Feb 1999
- Waterstones UK - 21st June 1999
- The Back Issue - Austin College webzine
- My Dream Date” - from sometime in 1998, Varsity Arts
- Gaiman Q&A at the Mononoke screening (in Austin?)
- NY Mononoke
- More Mononoke - California premierey-type stuff
- The Critical Eye - interview about Mononoke and such
- Neil Gaiman & Minnie Driver –The Lybarger Links Interview
- Cranky Critic (yet more Mononoke stuff)
- Editorial:Pokemon in the UK, but not Mononoke?
- Border’s Books Chat, January 6, 1999
- Silth’s full transcript of the Next Planet Over message board
- Boston Globe: Painting With Words
- City Pages: Once Upon a Time
- Dangermedia interview
- Dark Planet (mirror of SFSite interview)
- Clockwork Storybook:pt 1
- Clockwork Storybook:pt 2
- Corona Coming Attractions
- http://www.eskimo.com/~corwin/writings/gaiman_interview.htm
- Guide Page: Day of the Dead(B5)
- MIT:Highlights of Gaiman/Gardner Conversation
- Mania: Hollywood Heroes, 4/30/99
- Neil Gaiman: From Panel to Print - Fantasy/Science Fiction Books - 02/20/97
- Bloodsongs:Master Shaper
- Next Planet Over: Nov 11,1999
- Another Universe: Oct 1, 1999
- Sorted
- Sound and Spirit
- Errata interview
- Geek
- World of Westfield (new link, old interview)
- World of Westfield 2 (new link,old interview)
- Burn (new link, old interview)
- The Who’s, What’s and Where’s of Neverwhere
- LineOne.net
- SFX feature
Evadne found this little morsel on http://www.gormenghastcastle.co.uk/
The Peake family are planning a graphic novel of Gormenghast, the adaption to be done by Neil Gaiman, with artwork by Dave McKean.
Update: June 20, 2000 - Neil emailed to say that the Peake family have not asked him to do a Gormenghast Graphic Novel, though BBC America did ask him for a quote about the TV Series.
In addition to clarifying some things in some of the news from the past few days, Neil passed this along:
And I hear that MURDER MYSTERIES won’t be coming out from Dove Audio, due to problems at Dove Audio and that the scifi channel are looking for a new audio publisher for it (and for everything else I suppose).
Gauntlet #19 is out with the second half of Roel Torres’ interview with Neil (the first half was in #17). The whole issue is full of articles and interviews discussing comics and censorship. Unfortunately, they still haven’t updated their website, but the link would be at http://www.gauntletpress.com/magazine/Default.htm
Browzing around Amazon.com and noticed that Princess Mononoke is available on DVD and Video. The Video is priced for rental (in other words: VERY EXPENSIVE), but the DVD is an excellent $18 or so, and their page says it ships in 2-3 days.
So what are you waiting for? Buy Princess Mononoke on DVD!
UPDATE: June 23, 2000 - The Amazon page has changed and now says the release date is January 1, 2001. Oh well…
While you’re there, pick up Fight Club - along with American Beauty, it was my favorite movie last year.
There are two Neil stories due to appear in the next volume of Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
One is “Keepsakes and Treasures”, which appeared previously in the 999 collection.
The other is “Harlequin Valentine”, which appeared previously in the Strange Attraction collection.
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror : Thirteenth Annual Collection
Gaiman authored writings on the internet
(at least the ones I haven’t seen listed here)
Excerpt
Stardust, Ch. 1
Script
Season of Mists,pt. 3
Intros
Jonathan Carroll’s Website
Friends of Lulu
For the Love of Lovecraft
Tori tour book essays
Dew Drop Inn
Under the Pink
As interviewer
(removed Robin Hobb interview - despite what the page says, Neil has never interviewed her)
Colin Greenland
Terry Prachett
Odd Bits
- Sketch of Sunday, from _The Man Who Was Thursday_ by G.K. Chesterton
- An Honest Answer
- more of Where do you get your ideas?
- excerpt from “Reflections on Myth (with digressions into Gardening, Comics, and Fairy Tales)”
- piece for Amazon on Dream Hunters
- on Jack Kirby
- reviews of Voice of the Fire and the Illiad