First Neil Gaiman almost leaves his hat on an airplane, then he does leave something a bit more sensitive in a cab in Cardiff: The script for his Doctor Who episode.
Wow! That would have been my most prized possession if I were the one who found it.
I gave this Amazon box to my boyfriend for V-day this year. Inside was The Absolute Sandman Vol. 2.
Well better get on it, because they’re making it into a TV show soon!
So pretty much, House Majority Leader Matt Dean paid Neil Gaiman $45,000 for a four-hour appearance at a Stillwater public library in May 2010. And now he’s saying Gaiman stole $45k from Minnesota. Okay…
“The main reason I got a speaking agency, ten years ago, was because too many requests for me to come and speak were coming in,” Gaiman continued. “And the speaking requests were, and are, a distraction from what I ought to be doing, which is writing. So rather than say no, we’ve always priced me high. Not Tony Blair high, or Sarah Palin high (last time I read about them, they’re about $400,000 and $150,000 respectively). But I’m at the top end of what it costs to bring an author who should be home writing and does not really want a second career as a public speaker to your event. So if you want to pay me to come in and talk, it’s expensive.” - Neil Gaiman
Bottom line is that if this state could not afford Neil Gaiman, then why hire him? $45,000 for four hours? That guy should not be in office.
Need to own The Absolute Sandman Volume 2.
NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.
i’m on book four of the TPB as i re-read them for probably the fifth time before bed. this is like when you hear that a band you recently rediscovered has just broken up.
I don’t see anything wrong with that. Even if the television show would suck, it won’t affect what Neil Gaiman already wrote. If you watch it and don’t like it, then just stop watching it. It won’t make the books less great.
The Sandman TV SHOW??
STORY VIA COMIC BOOK RESOUSCES
For all the comic book and graphic novel properties getting tapped for Hollywood adaptation, one of the most beloved entries in the medium’s modern history has also been one of the quietest comics in terms of adaptation buzz…until now.
The Hollywood Reporter has word that Warner Bros.Television is planning on acquiring the rights to adapt Neil Gaiman, Dace McKean and a wealth of artist’s epic DC Vertigo series “The Sandman” in order to bring the story to the small screen. The award-winning, 75-issue series turned perennial best-selling graphic novel collection has flirted with adaptation as a movie for years including a stint where it was to be a vehicle for Gaimain’s “Beowulf” co-writer Roger Avary. However, in recent year talk of any kind of adaptation of the lives of the Endless characters has centered around Gaimain’s “Death” spinoff series rather than “The Sandman” proper.
As this new report explains, apparently DC Comics had been in talks with HBO to adapt the series until recently, but with parent company Warner Bros. stepping in to take the lead, a name that’s come up to adapt has been Eric Kripke – creator of The CW’s hit “Supernatural.” Though that show will return for its sixth season this year, Kripke stepped down as “Supernatural” show runner stating that his original five-year plot for the series had wrapped.
