Neil Gaiman

He's part of the clam scam. He's a crazy cunt.

I read him after a few SK/ Clive Barker retreads and he was a breath of fresh air.

His gf is a twat and a half.

I thought he wasn't a scientologist although he has family that is.

Can't say I like his books but I absolutely love the Sandman comics he wrote. And yes, I've also heard it's his family that's in the cult, not him.

His book photos looked hot and then. BOOM! He's grizzled for Trigger Warning.

Poor soul.

Good Omens is the best book EVER

Cannot stand the man or his work.

Overrated. Short stories are odd. Did like Anerican Gods.

His father was a clam who headed a program called "Project Cat" that literally infiltrated the U.S. government. His mother, still alive, sells vitamins to clams and makes millions. His ex-wife gives millions to the clams on a regular basis.

Back in the 1970s, when he was a kid, a young African man stayed with the Gaiman family, who were huge players in the U.K. version of Scientology. The man was found dead in the Gaiman family car, the whole thing hushed up and labeled suicide. Neil Gaiman claimed he never heard about this at the time (didn't notice the family car missing, or his parents gone to the inquiries, or anything?) but then he used the story for a book a couple years back. In it, the African man has been turned into a nasty evil creature whose death in the family car is meant to curse them unfairly.

So as far as I'm concerned, that's a confession that yep, he's a clam, and yep, he's a fucking asshole.

This is like finding out Bill Cosby is a rapist.

he's gay

R10, I'm not sure how you managed to turn the whole thing that happened in his childhood somehow against Neil Gaiman. I've heard about the death that happened in his childhood earlier and at that time someone insinuated as well that Gaiman's parents had something to do with it. That sounds a bit harsh, if they were never charged with anything.

When did "clam" become a thing?

Nicole/Tom divorce, R14

He's really a blah writer. His Miracleman/Marvelman stuff was good. However his Sandman started with great promise but petered out. His Dr Who episodes have been sucky to boot. With all the lame Clam Scam indoctrination and Sci-Fi stories he is in turn a mediocre writer. He is the most overrated genre writer of all time.

[quote] but then he used the story for a book a couple years back Which book was that, [R10]? I've read some of his as a kid but don't remember much, may have to refresh my memory.

^Sorry, messed up the quote...

R16, I disagree about The Sandman. I've probably read all of it and even if there are some low key moments overall the whole story is just fantastic. Now the latest The Sandman: Overture which was published last fall and something like 10 years after the original run ended has been disappointing. Not terrible at all but I wouldn't have minded a bit more action and drama in the story.

R19 We have to agree to disagree. The "Game Of You" story line was a bit too much for me. He shot his load at this point. I took the rest of the saga out from my library system in the form of the Absolute editions. Quite frankly I wasn't impressed. Overture had nice artwork but it was a muddled mess script wise.

Also JK Rowling ripped off Harry Potty from Gaiman's Books Of Magic from DC Comics featuring Tim Hunter(who became HP in Rowling's books). Oddly enough Gaiman feels uneasy about criticizing his influence on her. Is she a Clam sister? DC Comics is owned by Time Warner whose Warner Bros subsidiary produced Rowling's films. So Time Warner made out no matter what the Rowling ripped off from them. I wonder if anyone has asked her if she was heavily influenced by Gaiman's Tim Hunter character?

Rowling also ripped off Terry Pratchett, who co-wrote Good Omens with Gaiman.

[bold]Neil Gaiman announces new Sandman Universe line of comics - exclusive[/bold]

Video announcement by Neil at the link.

[quote]But in honor of the series’ 30th anniversary this year, Gaiman is coming back to the Dreaming in a big way. EW can exclusively announce that DC Comics is launching a Sandman Universe line of four new comic series. The books will be overseen by Gaiman but written and drawn by brand new creative teams. They will pick up story threads and themes from The Sandman while also adding new characters and concepts.

[quote]The project kicks off this August with The Sandman Universe one-shot special, which will catch readers up on what’s been happening in Dream’s realm. The most salient fact is that Dream has now gone missing, leaving chaos in his wake. Other important developments include the opening of a rift between worlds, revealing a space beyond the Dreaming. Dream’s official librarian Lucien is still in charge of all the books that were dreamed and never written, but now, one of those books has wound up in the waking world, to be discovered by a group of children. The Dreaming also has an important new resident, now that a House of Whispers has appeared alongside Cain’s House of Mystery and Abel’s House of Secrets. Meanwhile, Lucifer (the David Bowie-esque devil who originated in the pages of The Sandman before ending up on his own Fox show) has fallen once more, though now he might be in a Hell of his own design. And down in London, a young boy named Timothy Hunter alternates between dreams of becoming the world’s greatest magician and nightmares of becoming its worst villain.

[quote]The Sandman Universe #1 will be plotted by Gaiman but written by Nalo Hopkinson, Kat Howard, Si Spurrier, and Dan Watters, with art by Bilquis Everly and a cover by Jae Lee. Each of those four writers will then go on to explore the special’s various threads in four new series. Hopkinson will write House of Whispers and explore how the voodoo deity Erzulie ended up in the Dreaming with her titular house. It might have something to do with a comatose woman named Latoya, whose girlfriend and sisters used the Book of Whispers to try and heal her. Now out of her coma, Latoya is suffering from the Cotard’s Delusion belief that she’s already dead, and is transmitting her belief to others, catalyzing them to become guardians of the gap that has opened in the Dreaming. Howard will write Books of Magic, which will follow up on Gaiman’s 1990 miniseries of the same name and explore Timothy Hunter’s magical education as he’s torn between two powerful destinies. Spurrier will write The Dreaming, which will follow The Sandman supporting characters like Lucien the librarian and Matthew the Raven as they navigate a Dreaming without Dream. Watters will write Lucifer, which finds the titular devil blind and destitute, trapped living in a small boarding house in a quiet town where no one can ever leave. Artists for the books have not been announced yet.

Very talented. American Gods and Ocean at the End of the Lane are particularly good.

Check out Neil Gaiman's anthology series Likely Stories. It's available on Amazon.

Interview about his new show, Good Omens, which is coming to Amazon in 2019.

I sort of pictured Martin Freeman as Aziraphale. "gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide"

R14 Clams became a thing 350 years ago.

Inconsistent. A standout as the field is very sparse. American Gods was very good.