Neil Gaiman

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.

Archive You can ask things here. Sometimes I answer. It is possible that I have already answered your question.

May 3rd, 2020 at 8:04AM

kimmycup asked:

With all the thrilling saga of google being unhelpful about your career, I gotta ask - don't you maybe have like a place where you store your publications? That'd probably help with "at least 34" counting. I mean, I know I do that but I guess at some level of success that becomes less significant?

wardenmcpherson:

neil-gaiman:
I do. It’s about 7,000 miles away from where I am right now. But I’m pretty vague still. Take the 75 issues of Sandman, divided over 10 trade paperbacks, two omnibus editions, or four Absolute editions. Is that ten books, two books, four books or sixteen books?
Listen, I was on your side until you said you also don’t know the answer to this question.

Excellent. So you have the definitive answer, then?

(It occurs to me that that other answers, in addition to 10, 2, 4 or 16, could be 76 – as it’s actually 76 monthly issues of Sandman, because I’d forgotten the Song of Orpheus special – or, including every form those 76 issues came out in, 92.)