Journal

Thursday, September 04, 2003

Themeless in Gaza

The message line is still down, but I was cheered by being copied on e-mails this morning that seem to mean that unless it gets sorted out permanently soon, we'll be finding somewhere else to host the site.

Felicia Quon just sent me a link to a nice article in the Toronto Globe and Mail -- I was amused by the intro, the bit written by sub editors at the paper, not by Luma, the journalist (who has, she told me, a wolf, a tame one that appears on TV, living upstairs from her) which says: Not just a comic-book hero. Neil Gaiman, author of the groundbreaking Sandman series, now frightens kids, including his own, LUMA MUHTADIE finds ("What do you do for a living?" "I used to write a comic, but now I frighten children.")

Over at the Radio 4 site, I see the second series of Ross Noble Goes Global is up for listening at Radio 4. Ross Noble is sort of like a Geordie Eddie Izzard, in that he's nothing at all like Eddie Izzard, but if you're going to point at someone to compare him to, Eddie's a good person to point at. (Good review of his new show at the Telegraph site.)

Brian Hibbs, at San Francisco's Comix Experience writes to say:

Might want to point it out in the blog that the ENDLESS NIGHTS Special is out -- as far as I know, it's ONLY available to direct market comic shops, and even then, only to those that a) topped their orders on DREAM HUNTERS and b) thought that there would be demand for 1/7th of the HC before the full book ships in 2 weeks.

This probably means that it has the lowest orders of a SANDMAN comic, ever...

(then you probably want to tell people what it is, like)

-B


The Endless Nights Special is a 'taster" -- a 24 page comic, with the Miguelanxo Prado Dream story in it. It's for people who aren't sure that they want to buy a whole hardback book, but would like to see what the fuss is about. It's about Morpheus, and his first girlfriend, and it's set a very long time ago. No, longer ago than that...

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So far today I've done four interviews with journalists for WOLVES IN THE WALLS, although, like yesterday's NEVERWHERE DVD interviews, they've wandered all over the place. Which is sort of fun.