Writing Neil Gaiman

[Zen]

[color=green][size=1]

Neil Gaiman has obviously been one of the biggest names in comics since Stan Lee drew up a little web-slinger wearing red tights. I've known of his works such as "Sandman" and "The Watchmen" for some while, but its only been till recently that I was able to see the glory of his work in the first volume of the "Sandman" graphic novel. I loved reading this book so much. The art work wasn't the best I had seen to date, but that reasonable seeing as how it was originally made in the late eighties, early ninties. But the story itself was unbeleivable. I just loved the world he created, showing all the 'demi-gods', such as the opposite brothers, Cain and Able, the pretty-boy Lucifer, the always perky, good looking and optomistic Death, and the main character, and Death's younger brother, Dream.

Going threw reading "Sandman", their were points of depression, tension, fear, comedy, and at the end of the first volume, a feeling of optomism, and happiness. And threw those mood changes, it made since with the transitions. I loved the narrative style, the script, and most of all, the characterization. I'm pretty sure many people here have heard of Neil Gaiman, seeing as how he's still one of the biggest names in American comics. So, I'd like to hear about others opinions on him, and his works.[/color][/size]

[Guest Ashe]

I like his The SandMan, Dream Hunters. He teamed up with squaresoft's Yoshitaka Amano in his Vertigo Graphic Novel.
I really like that story with the monk, the fox and the badger. Very folk-tale like but with so many twists.

And his other published work with Ed Kramer. The SandMan Book of Dreams.
Have you read his American Gods and Coraline also?

[Lady Asphyxia]

[font=Verdana][size=1]To be [i]strictly[/i] honest...I haven't read any book published by Neil Gaiman. I do, however, regularly read his blog, which you can find [url=http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp]here[/url]. I stumbled across it one day. I'd been reading a blog by an editor, who was talking about the way writers take rejection [very badly, was the basic sentiment, heh.] and somewhere along the line I managed to click myself to his site.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana][size=1][/size][/font]
[font=Verdana][size=1]From reading his blog, I have to say he seems to be a very funny, down to earth guy, which I hope spills over into his writing. What genre does he write, do you know?[/size][/font]

[Zen]

[color=green][size=1]

Gaiman is a pretty down to Earth guy and doesn't really act cocky, but he has admitted to saying that his book, "The Watchmen", was a great peice and no other comic has acheived its complexity. But that is a true statement and many critics have agreed with that. He mostly does horror/thriller/modern fantasy stories. Alot having to do with dreams and bending reality. Also, in "The Sandman", Dream makes several trips to Hell, were he conversates with Lucifer, Beezelbub, and another king of Hell who's name I can't remember. So I don't know really, he's more Horror than anything, though. And I love the mood he sets for it. But the way he potrays some characters is kinda funny and humorous. But its still mainly horror/modern fantasy set in the DC world with Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and the likes of them. I really enjoy his writting.[/color][/size]

[Sandy]

Neil Gaiman is my number one favorite author at this moment. Well, he's not perfect, but he has the best stories I've encountered this far in my life. I've read his novels "Neverwhere", "Good Omens", "American Gods" and "Stardust" (well, that's just about all of them, excluding "Coraline") and the gathering of short stories "Smoke and Mirrors".

His dark humour and magical realism are something that touch me deeply. Everytime I read something by him I get sucked into the world completely, and I find it hard to lay down the book until it's finished.

To my opinion his books have all the features that are required from a excellent piece of literature. Great man, he is, and it would be great to meet him in person.