Neil Gaiman fans

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Sunday Morning on CBS was supposed to have run a profile of Gaiman last Sunday but it got bumped due to the shootings.

CBS says they'll probably run it some time in December, although no-one seems certain when. Neil was told that we could help ensure that it is broadcast (and possibly make it come out sooner than December) if CBS thinks people would actually like to see it. Which means that if you do want to see it, you can help the process along if you write or email CBS and (politely) tell them so:

ADDRESS:
CBS News Sunday Morning
Box O (for Osgood)
524 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

E-MAIL: [e-mail]

Thanks

[Wheezy]

1. kick & rec

He is incredibly entertaining and witty. I was lucky enough to meet him at the ALA Conference this summer at the dinner where he received his Newbery award.

I sent my polite letter to CBS! Thanks for posting this.

[Orrex]

2. Garrison Keillor had a blurb about Gaiman on today's Writer's Almanac

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

It's the birthday of best-selling graphic novelist and science fiction writer Neil Gaiman, (books by this author) born in Portchester, England (1960). As a kid, he was reading comics and one of the characters was Thor, and he liked Thor a lot so he went out and got a book about Norse mythology, which he read over and over. After that, he started reading mythology from all over the world.

He went on to write comics, novels, and screenplays, and he filled them with mythic elements. His first big success was The Sandman, a comic that is more than 2,000 pages long, which he wrote and published in installments between 1989 and 1996.

I love that he describes The Sandman as "a comic" rather than as "a comic book series." Keillor's respectful description of it is fitting, given its scope and quality.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Try Gaiman's short story "October in the Chair"

if you haven't already. Gaiman's best work, IMO.

[MrCoffee]

4. I'm partial to "I, Cthulhu"

http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthulhu