The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the Sandman TV show. Quite nice really.
Colleen Doran Illustrates Neil Gaiman at San Diego Comic Con Museum
Dosens of original pieces from Chivalry, Snow, Glass, Apples, American Gods, Troll Bridge, Sandman, private commissions, Norse Mythology, and Good Omens are all on display.
Thanks to curator Kim Munson, The San Diego Comic Con Museum, Director Rita Vandergaw, programming director Eddie Ibrahim, and patrons Teresa Kieu, Mikail Lotia, Jeremiah Avery, Erik von Oosten, Robert Accinelli, and Allan Hamilton who generously loaned original art for the exhibit.
You remember how I told everyone the plot of Season 2 before it aired?
(Everyone tries to remember and then shakes their heads.)
That’s right. I didn’t. I spent several years going “wait and see”. And you waited and you saw.
I’m not going to reveal any of the plot of Season 3, either. So there’s really no point in asking me to make things happen, or to tell me what you do or you don’t want to happen. I’m not going to.
I read all your books, but today I’d like to share my story about The Graveyard Book. It’s a bit long.
I remember that I listened to the audio book in almost pitch black in a park, before I actually read that book. It was in winter, and the park was covered in deep snow. I walked through a path between some dark and tall pine trees. There, your voice read the story in my headphones. The story began with something about “a knife in the darkness”.
I wasn’t exactly existed to the rest of the world at the time. I have development disorder (Ok I have autism but not the smart kind that most people would have imagined), I have intellectual disabilities, I was very delayed in development, and it took me years to learn the simplest things most people would learn as toddlers. I was homeschooled at times and when I actually went to school it was in an untraditional way.
Now I’m not sure what was happening when I heard/read The Grave Book for the first time, but I remember I wan’t anywhere in this world and wasn’t really doing anything. I was in between.
I love the idea about the goblins’ underground world very much. I also love the idea about befriending ghosts. I dreamt to have ghost friends. I literally dreamt about me chasing after some ghosts, hoping they can be my friends but they were too social-phobic and they always scattered away.
But most of all I love what Bod said, ‘I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want…I want everything.’
This was exactly what I thought at the time. I’m disabled, I can be uncomfortable in many environments, I get tired easily, I get into troubles or difficulties very often. I can’t stand the noise, but I wish I could be in the Rock music concert and actually enjoy it without pain. People thought we don’t want them. But I want them, I want everything.
Well, I guess you know what happened next: “Between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.” I did this and I’m still doing it. I’m nearly thirty now, but I feel that my life had yet to start. I went abroad, I came NZ just as you did. I’m in a university and I haven’t graduated.
And I’d like to think that when I’m in my 60s I can do everything, just like you and my elderly friends, I’ll get a very big dog and a very tiny house, I’ll be able to play music with other people in my garden, and we dance.
Today my friend insisted that this blog is probably run by a social media team. Thought you might find that amusing.
The nearest thing I have to a social media team is Dan Guy, who looks after neilgaiman.com and sometimes posts things for me (when I’m busy) on Facebook or Xitter (although on FB you can always see who posted it, so you’ll know if it’s him). Tumblr, Bluesky or Mastodon it’s just me. (Instagram and Threads it now seems to be just me again but I need to work out how to make it include Dan again.)
I heard that you had to change the ending of Coraline because of how dark it was, did you ever publish it or is it available anywhere to be read? And how dark would you say it actually was?
That’s a great story but it’s not true. The only change between the Coraline I wrote and the the one that was published was I added the Other Father’s chapter in the cellar in (I’d had it in my head but was worried it might be too scary).
No question, just reminding you to get lots of rest, stay hydrated, and feel better soon. This latest covid seems to be really leaving patients fatigued, so please take care of yourself - we need your light in this world!
I’m mostly sleeping, or listening to audiobooks and dozing off. Paxlovid makes my mouth taste awful so for the first and possibly only time in my life I’m also sucking a lot of Cinnamon Altoids.
hi! so, i know that you are not allowed to tell us any spoilers for season 3, but I have a question. i'm watching good omens with my younger sister and she's 9. there is this popular headcanon that Crowley will have a suicide attempt in season 3 and i just kind of want to know if it's the truth? I don't really care if it's Crowley or someone else, but will someone have a suicide attempt in season 3? cos i want to tell my sister if she can watch season 3 with me cos she's been asking about it all the time and I know that she's not allowed to watch stuff like that.
so, yeah, I know that you cannot spoiler anything but will anyone have a suicide attempt in season 3?
The only people who actually know the plot of season 3 are me, David, Michael and Catriona Mackenzie (our story producer). Unless one of the four of us has told you something about the plot, you should ignore it as just people talking.
“Popular Headcanon” is just people talking. It doesn’t have anything to do with Good Omens Season 3.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favours, I think, and it’s in Smoke and Mirrors.
I show it as “Good Boys Deserve Favors” from the Fragile Things story collection, not Smoke and Mirrors.
Neil is very sick right now with COVID. I’m surprised he’s even answering asks in the first place.
I really shouldn’t pick up my phone. It doesn’t help anyone. So yes ignore whatever balderdash and piffle I was burbling and go with the above. (Bass clef and wrong book. Come on brain.)
My most interesting moment after finishing the book that helped me for the first time deal anything like successfully with my own sexual assault (in my own house, in my own bedroom, while grieving my mother’s death, by a “friend” of the family) at the age of 16:
Being accused by a critic of “sexually fridging” my working-it-through character “for cheap drama.”(We’d say “clickbait” now.)
And you know what?
The issue was still dealt with. After the fact, the reviewer was still nothing but a poorly-clued-in person. (Projection of putative motivation can be so revealing.) And I was still free.
So, advice: (Self-)Insert where and when and how you please. Break down your prison walls in whatever way works for you. Get out of jail, (mostly) free. And before, or after, invite the would-be jailers to go fuck themselves… while, in the light, you continue going forward.
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