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Buy Sandman: The Dream Hunters from Amazon.com

 
Wednesday, June 28, 2000


Scott McCloud's New Column
Posted by ambrosia at 8:46 PM PDT | Comments (0)
Check out Scott McCloud's new column at The Comic Reader, called "I Can't Stop Thinking".


500,000
Posted by puck at 6:50 AM PDT | Comments (0)
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.


Mononoke on DVD Date
Posted by puck at 6:44 AM PDT | Comments (1)
Dylan Verheul (of the web site The Wake) posted this info to a.f.n-g:

From http://www.dvdtalk.com

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!
 
Wednesday, June 21, 2000


More links
Posted by lucy_anne at 2:37 PM PDT | Comments (0)
Yet more odds and ends I don't think I have seen here.



Gormenghast Graphic Novel Update
Posted by puck at 2:01 AM PDT | Comments (0)
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.


Murder Mysteries Audio News
Posted by puck at 1:46 AM PDT | Comments (0)
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).
 
Tuesday, June 20, 2000


Gauntlet
Posted by lucy_anne at 7:00 PM PDT | Comments (0)
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


Princess Mononoke on DVD/Video
Posted by puck at 5:48 PM PDT | Comments (2)
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.


The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror : Thirteenth Annual Collection
Posted by lucy_anne at 5:29 PM PDT | Comments (0)
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

 
Monday, June 19, 2000


Linkses
Posted by lucy_anne at 10:14 PM PDT | Comments (1)
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


A Wolf At the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
Posted by lucy_anne at 9:26 PM PDT | Comments (0)
A Wolf at the Door : And Other Retold Fairy Tales by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor) arrived at the store today

This is the book with Neil's poem, "Instructions", as well as redone versions of fairy tales ranging from Cinderella (Jane Yolen's "Cinder Elephant") to Jack and the Beanstalk (Michael Cadnum's "Mrs. Big").

The audience is 8-12 year olds (you'll find it in with the Young Reader books, rather than Young Adult), but the stories work for us older folks as well.

 
Saturday, June 17, 2000


Clippings
Posted by lucy_anne at 12:28 PM PDT | Comments (0)
I don't think these newsy bits have appeared here; apologizes if I missed them in the archives. Unfortunately, some are a few months old, but the links seem to still be active
-la

  • The new team for Books of Magic's restart is Dylan Horrocks writing and Richard Case doing the art.

    DC Messageboards: Books of Magic
  • _Dream Hunters_ wins the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative.
    Full List of Award Winners

    There was another article about a comic writer's take on World Horror Con on one of the news sites, but I can't seem to track down the link - please email me if you can help!
  • DCs July soliciations include a "brand new, gold foil enhanced cover" softcover of Dream Hunters, due to ship July 19. ($19.95) More importantly (at least to me) is the fact that the page count looks to be *exactly* the same as the hard cover. So much for making the epilogue obviously imaginary in the next printings. Drat.
    DC July Solitications from Comics Continuum
  • Galadrielle posted a link to some Neil pictures from a meet and greet for Tori (thanks!)
    Pictures
  • Eve found a neat webpage by Steve Alpert at Studio Ghibli about Princess Mononoke and Neil.
    Princess Monoke Report
  • Updates on Corona's movie info on Death: HCOL and Good Omens
    Death, tje High Cost of Living
    Good Omens
  • Bill Willingham's _Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of Dream one-shot info
    PsyComics: March 28, 2000. It has been solicited by DC for October, according to Comics Continuum, and there is an image of the cover at Another Universe.
  • Delay of the Princess Mononoke DVD (and I've heard there has been another delay since this point - it'll be a contest to see whether it comes out before Seeing Ear Theatre's audiotape of "Murder Mysteries" (
    Daily Buzz for 4/6/00
  • Errata sheet for the Sandman Companion (all it does is id the cover artist as Kent Williams, not Dave McKean):
    Errata for the Sandman Companion
  • The Quotable Sandman submisions info from DC Comics (thanks, Tree!):
    Submission requests
  • Vertigo Visions coffee-table book with art from Sandman and other Vertigo series:
    Vertigo Visions ordering info from Amazon
  • 6 Degrees of Neil Gaiman
  • And last but not least Neil in Peter Jackson's _Lord of the Rings_ (thank you, Eve!)
    Locus Online
 
Friday, June 16, 2000


BA-FOG #1's Guide to alt.fan.neil-gaiman
Posted by puck at 4:36 AM PDT | Comments (0)
Michelle Hyman, BA-FOG #1 has a web page describing Thing(ie)s you might find on a.f.n-g! which will warn... er... inform prospective 'thingies' of what they can expect to go on in the channel.

Her semi-monthly thingie posting also points at the alt.fan.neil-gaiman beta-faq.
 
Thursday, June 15, 2000


Times fixed
Posted by puck at 10:37 PM PDT | Comments (0)
I've fixed the time display for news postings - the error was a small one on my part - times were off by 8 hours. I'd thought the config file wanted to know the difference between me and GMT, not the difference between me and my server. Oops.

Luckily, making this one change fixed all the posted times. NewsPro programmers, I thank you heartily.


"Land of Laughs"
Posted by lucy_anne at 9:07 PM PDT | Comments (0)
Charles Vess notes in Green Man Press' messageboard that Neil had requested some artwork to be shown to the movie folks who may want to get the _Land Of Laughs_ project of the ground. _Land of Laughs_ is a Jonathan Carroll book from 1980; it has gone out of print, and while I haven't seen it priced at anything less than $100 on eBay and such, amazon.co.uk lists a September release on a paperback version.

Green Man Press guestbook

The Jonathan Carroll Website | Land of Laughs
 
Wednesday, June 14, 2000


Neil at Millennium Finncon
Posted by puck at 9:28 PM PDT | Comments (0)
Ari Veintie emailed to say that Neil will be appearing at Millennium Finncon, a combined SF and Comics convention on August 18-20, 2000.

Their page design is very cool, but I don't speak any Finnish, and Babelfish doesn't either, so I can't understand much other than "Neil Gaiman" (and "P. Craig Russell"). :-)
 
Tuesday, June 13, 2000


CBLDF Making Waves Reports
Posted by puck at 10:07 PM PDT | Comments (0)
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has a plethora of information from their Making Waves cruise. A Cruise Report - complete with pictures of a long-haired Neil - some News and The Perils of Parasailing by Neil himself!


Neil on the Well
Posted by puck at 9:54 PM PDT | Comments (0)
Jean Prouvaire let a.f.n-g know that Inkwell.vue has a conference with Neil about Dream Hunters. I'm not sure if this is a transcript or an ongoing thing. It's certainly an excellent read either way.

To view the conference, go to the page, click "Enter Conference" and then find topic #73.


Netscape... Grrr...
Posted by puck at 1:12 PM PDT | Comments (0)
Argh! I just checked the new layout with Netscape 4.7 (yes, I prefer IE) and for some reason it refuses to listen to the size="xx" argument in the Search box HTML, so it stretches too far across the page.

If anyone knows of a fix for this, please let me know (hey, try the new comments page!) I've found other pages that use small input fields that work fine in Netscape, but I can't for the life of me see what they've done differently.


Internet Movie Database
Posted by puck at 12:39 PM PDT | Comments (0)
The IMDB finally has an entry for Neil Gaiman. Not a lot there yet, but interesting.


Neil in Wicked Magazine
Posted by puck at 3:11 AM PDT | Comments (1)
Elizabeth Collier passed along this info (quite a while ago - I'm catching up on news!):

There is a Neil Gaiman interview in the premiere issue of Wicked magazine. The article is about 3 pages long, and includes photographs. It discusses Dream Hunters and his past work.


NPO Archive
Posted by puck at 3:09 AM PDT | Comments (1)
NextPlanetOver has archived their Neil Gaiman message board. It's big. Really big.


CNN Chat Transcript
Posted by puck at 3:08 AM PDT | Comments (0)
CNN has a transcript from a chat with Neil, held February 7, 2000.


We're in Print!
Posted by puck at 3:05 AM PDT | Comments (0)
This is pretty darned cool:

This e-mail is "official notification" that your web site -- The Dreaming - The Neil Gaiman Page -- is now mentioned "in print!"

That's right, your web site is mentioned in The Incredible Internet Guide to Comic Books & Superheroes! Plus, we've included a screen capture of your site -- making your site one of only 129 out of the 1900+ sites included to have a screen capture printed.

Our 420-page book mentions your site along with 1900 "choice" comic book and superhero-related sites, cross-references them in any of 140+ categories along with sample screen captures, descriptions, and easy to spot icons!

Plus, as an added bonus, the book includes over 1300 character and team appearance chronologies so that comic fans can organize their collections and find out what order to read the issues in their collection!

To download your award graphic and find out more about the book, go to
http://www.incredibleguides.com/special/comics

Congratulations,
Facts on Demand Press

PS
The Incredible Internet Guide to Comic Books & Superheroes is available in bookstores nationwide. Plus, our web site offers the book at THE lowest price available online -- save over 25%!
http://www.incredibleguides.com/special/comics


EINTKILFS
Posted by puck at 3:00 AM PDT | Comments (0)
H2G2 has (another) Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Sandman article. Who'd have thought there'd be room on the Internet for two of them?


The Genuine Literary Value of the Comic Book Medium
Posted by puck at 2:52 AM PDT | Comments (12)
A. David Lewis (adlewis@directresults.com) has an article entitled The Genuine Literary Value of the Comic Book Medium.


IGN Movies Interview
Posted by puck at 2:49 AM PDT | Comments (0)
IGN Movies has an Interview with Neil where Neil confirms that he's signed to direct the Death movie.


Sandman Psychoanalysis
Posted by puck at 2:47 AM PDT | Comments (0)
Dave Mockaitis discusses The Sandman and Psychoanalysis.
 
Monday, June 12, 2000


The Dreaming's Brand New News System
Posted by puck at 5:08 PM PDT | Comments (9)
Well, here it is kids! We're testing out NewsPro for our news now. This is the very first news article I'm submitting as a test.

Everything seems to be working just fine. I even found an add-on that'll help out our newsies who don't know HTML that well to color code quoted text and make links!


The Wake's New Location
Posted by puck at 3:52 AM PDT
Dylan Verheul's "The Wake", official host to the Sandman Annotations is now at http://www.dyve.net/sandman/


Dave McKean Page
Posted by puck at 3:40 AM PDT
I've said many times that Dave McKean deserves a great fan-page. Dreamline is now it (new URL!)


Dreamhaven's New (Online) Home
Posted by puck at 3:31 AM PDT
Hadn't noticed this before, but Dreamhaven Books finally got their own URL - http://www.dreamhavenbooks.com/

Welcome to the 21st Century gang! :)
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