2 questions that other readers of your blog may be interested in also:
I searched your site, but saw no mention of the upcoming Sandman and Death bookends. I love most of the Sandman statues, and these look really cool, so I will probably pick them up. My question is, is this replacing the large slipcase designed to hold the 4 absolute Sandman volumes that you have mentioned in the past? If the slipcase is still planned, will it be able to contain the individual slipcases as well, or just the books?
On another note, is there any truth to the rumor of an Absolute Death collection to accompany the Sandman volumes?
Thanks for the writing, and for the blog.
-Neil
Dear Neil (good name that, correctly spelled, well done)
I think we decided that a master slipcase to hold four books already each in a slipcase was a bit redundant. (Maybe we can do a master slipcase or two for the ten Sandman Library volumes one day.) So it's just the bookends, which Mark Buckingham designed and which he and the people at DC and the sculptor have been working on for many, many months now. (Click on the photo to see it a bit bigger. Each bookend is over 8 inches tall and over six inches wide)
The DEATH volume won't be an absolute. It'll be oversized, though, in the Deluxe Edition format, and probably be called THE COMPLEAT DEATH because that's what we've been calling it for the last decade.
Dear Neil,
I just found this blog and thought of you:
http://lolthulhu.com/
You probably already know it...I'm just making sure.
Also, while I don't usually like book reviews...when I was in high-school, I knew synesthesia and the Midgard serpent. I also knew Mandelbrot (if only as "that guy who makes math into freaky pictures"). Admittedly, I've always been a little weirder than most people.
Best wishes!
K.
I've never posted Lolthulhu, have I? Despite people letting me know about it as long ago as last Hallowe'en. Well, it's up now.
And yes, I wasn't sure about the logic of the "bright high school kids all know celebrity gossip from thirty years ago" line in the review. Some things don't change. The whole point of that line was to show what sorts of things Joey didn't know. (Shrugs.)
Hey Neil...since you seem to be always open to nifty, original websites, I found one that I think is splindifferously wonderful. This guy takes drawings done by children and recreates them in photographic form. It really goes to show both the photographer's ingenuity, and more importantly, the creativity of children's minds. WONDERFUL site. I hope you like it.
http://www.yeondoojung.com/wonderland.html
Oh, and you totally need one of these. If I had money to spend, I would definitely get you one as a gift. :)
http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm
That first website is fascinating. And I really want to sit down at one of those keyboards and find out what it feels to type on them...
Over at http://outofthiseos.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/a-note-on-audio.html
my Harper Collins editor Jennifer's assistant Kate (who is also editing in her own write) talks about the pluses and minuses of audiobooks and driving, from her experiences with Neverwhere...
Right. On with the day. (I'm doing some overdue introductions right now. Then Chapter 8.)
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