The Dreaming

In addition to the ICv2 story, there’s news on the damages on the trial from COMICON.com Pulse

ICV2 is reporting that the damages phase of the Gaiman v. McFarlane trial is over. I’ll let you read the article for specifics, but here’s the paragraph that made me smile:

The trial ended with a bizarre, almost surreal scene of camaraderie between the two adversaries, who both comported themselves with great civility and showed considerable mutual respect, at least in a creative sense, throughout the entire proceedings. After Judge Shabaz dismissed the jury and adjourned the court, McFarlane caught up with Gaiman outside the courtroom. With one of the Spawn comics that had been used as an exhibit in the trial in his hand he asked Gaiman to sign it for a young boy who was in the courtroom with one of McFarlane’s attorneys. McFarlane signed the comic and handed it to Gaiman saying, “I saved you the sweet spot.” Gaiman signed and posed for a picture with McFarlane and the boy, providing a fitting coda to a case about a medium that is, after all, about entertainment and fun.

Both the Boston Globe and the Atlanta Journal Constitution mentioned Coraline in another roundup of adult authors writing YA books; both have short
bits of interview.

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The Riverside Press Enterprise makes mention of Larime Taylor having written “…a stage adaptation of a Japanese fable by British author Neil Gaiman.”

COMICON.com Pulse, Newsarama and ICv2, are reporting that a verdict has been reached in the trial. From ICv2:

The jury held that:

Ninave posted a number of trial related links to AFNG from ICv2 News: