Culture Buzz Burton Olivier wrote to the “Sandman” author with his plans for a Gaiman inspired tattoo. Gaiman wrote a poem called “I Will Write With Words of Fire” specially for the tattoo and asked comic book artist David Mack to design the image. Here are the results:
There's something charming about this acceptance speech. Gaiman won the SFX Award for writing “The Doctor's Wife” episode of Doctor Who and gave what might be the best response ever.
Celebrity Buzz What are the people that bring monsters to life afraid of? CNN's Geek Out spoke to some of the biggest names in scary stuff to find out what movies keep them up at night.
Celebrity Buzz Give the gift of sleepless nights this Halloween. Oh God, what was that sound?
Celebrity Buzz Literary-and-music power-couple Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer launched a campaign to fund a Halloween-timed West Coast tour via Kickstarter, offering shiny packages for backers. Their goal was $20K, but in just over 48 hours, they've more than quadrupled that. That is a lot of social media ROI! (via kickstarter.com)
Craig and Neil nerd out in the most British of ways. (via The Uniblog)
Neil Gaiman + Adam Savage + Gollum = BRAINSPLOSION OF GEEKINESS.
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Now that's a mom who needs to be celebrated on Mother's Day!
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Republicans aren't known to be big fans of Sandman.
So, in case you've been living under a rock, the new season of Doctor Who begins this week! Author Neil Gaiman has penned an upcoming episode which he calls “a love letter to Doctor Who”. Full story at io9.
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Neil Gaiman adapting a classic of Chinese literature. James Cameron may produce, making 1.5 billion people very suspicious.
Culture Buzz While plenty of girls dress up as the beloved character from the Neil Gaiman comic (including me, every Halloween), none come close to this girl who captured the look before the character existed. I love you, mystery '80s goth girl! (Via)
A few months ago, the makers of xkcd made an animated tribute to science, the Internet, and geek culture. Now some of the most well known Internet “celebrities” have responded in suit, remaking the video in tribute to xkcd.
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Neil Gaiman is forced to explain the pro-death agenda of his “Graveyard Book.” Also, in possibly a talk show first, the question “What do you have against Tom Bombadil?” gets asked.
There's a new trailer out for Coraline, the upcoming freaky-looking movie based on the book by Neil Gaiman. Coraline is a little girl who finds this alternate world which seems really great until the people there want her to, um, replace her eyes with buttons, thereby creating an exciting new phobia for a generation of children (or grownups! so creepy!).
This dude's mustache dances via the magic of stop-motion animation. I can't decide if this is awesome or if it's kind of freaking me out. A little of both, I guess. The mustachioed gentleman in question is the art director of the upcoming movie Coraline, based on the book by Neil Gaiman.