Happily, the correction to the Toronto Star article was unnecessary after all; as noted in the Star, Locus Online (which has a picture), the Ottawa Citizen, and other sources, Coraline has won the 2003 Hugo award for best novella.
Coraline also debuts this week on the New York Times Children’s Paperback Books bestsellers list at 10.
From the September 5th Entertainment Weekly:
The year is…well, 1602. Dr. Strange and Nicholas Fury are advisers to the embattled Queen of England, mutantkind has been targeted by the Spanish Inquisition, and Peter Parquagh is a budding young adventurer who thinks spiders are neat. Transporting Marvel characters to an alternate Renaissance is a nifty high concept. Fortunately, with erudite scribe Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) at the helm, there’s nothing gimmicky (or pretentious) about it. Rendered rich and dark by artists Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove, and accessible to those who don’t know X-Men from eczema, 1602 is a triumph. The Marvel universe hasn’t been this engrossing in ages. Literally. A
–Jeff Jensen
From the August 28th Bookselling This Week:
The Wolves in the Walls
“Before Neil Gaiman became well-known and widely appreciated as a novelist, he and illustrator Dave McKean worked some real magic in the graphic novel/comics field. McKean combines scratchy, primitive lines with photographs and computer-treated images to create a stirring visual narrative that accompanies and complements Gaiman’s subtly layered story. Now that’s a kids’ book for adults.”
–Michael F. Russo, St. Mark’s Bookshop, New York, NY.
(well, except in the way that he’s been the catalyst for my learning skills that lead me to become a talented researcher), it appears that both the library schools that I applied to for the Fall in order to complete my masters have accepted me.
That said, I am only an part time student, and know I would bring value to any metro/New York area library needing a researcher well versed in quickly finding the proverbial “needles in haystacks”. I have also greatly reduced library costs during my tenure, identifying opportunities to operate more efficiently and share resources. My resume is available here
Thanks.
The homepage for Chapters Books features Coraline (except for when it features Wolves in the Walls) this month.
The Wolves in the Walls signing is on August 30th at 1pm at the Festival Hall Chapters.
The contact info is:
142 John Street
Toronto , Ontario
M5V 2E9
Canada
(416)595-7349
Chapters has an information page for the signing, which includes a map to the location.
Murray White interviews Neil in conjuction with his signing at Chapters Books this Saturday at 1pm in today’s Toronto Star.
(apologies; I will put up links to Chapters later)
Matthew Price reports on 1602 and Endless Nights in the August 22nd Daily Oklahoman
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Wolves in the Walls is reviewed in the August 24th Knoxville News Sentinel
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New reviews of 1602 have been posted by:
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It Was a Dark and Silly Night is reviewed by CBEM’s David LeBlanc and The Globe and Mail’s Susan Perren
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Jess Nevin’s ambitious collaborative 1602 annotations site is mentioned in the Montgomery Advertiser
Olivier Mouroux’s wonderful Animated Movies website points out that Peter Sanderson has posted a long and detailed piece on the Comic-Con MirrorMask presentation to IGN FilmForce.
Animated Movies also maintains the only Tam Lin news page I’ve found so far.
From a Washington Post online chat yesterday:
SciFiGirl: …On a secondary note, (because one day you’re going to kibosh the Neil Gaiman talk as you did Jane Austen and Plum), Gaiman’s new comic 1602 is out (though good luck getting it! My local shops were sold out of it), and it is a great re-imagining of the Marvel universe. Plus the artwork is absolutely beautiful.
Thank you for allowing me to out myself as a total geek among the more erudite members of this discussion group.
Michael Dirda: Total geek–never. All good points. Neil, you know, was supposed to be the co-guest with Terry Pratchett at the end of next month for the Post Book Club “public conversation” on Good Omens. But since Neil has had to cancel–probably, there’s still a small chance he might make it–I’ll use the occasion to veer off into Discworld. Still, I didn’t know it would be so hard to find the Sandman.
Neil, by the way, gave a blurb to An Open Book, but for various complicated reasons we weren’t able to use it.
On a somewhat related note, an audio adaption of Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents will streaming on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday from 14:30-15:30. (If my math is correct, that is 9:30am EST)
Tim Hartnett has posted a review of 1602 on Silver Bullet Comics
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And these production notes are from a Hollywood Reporter published earlier this summer:
MirrorMask (Fantasy)
Jim Henson Pictures, 1416 N. La Brea Ave., Hollywood,
CA 90028 – 323-802-1500, Fax: 323-802-1829
Shooting in London. England
(Start June 2, 2003)
Cast: Stephanie Leonidas, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Jason Barry
Executive Producers, Lisa Henson, Michael R. Polis, Martin G.Baker
Producer., Simon Moorhead
Director, Dave McKean
Screenwriter.,Neil Gaiman
U.S. Dstributor, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
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