The Fairy Art Father Saga…
Third strip on the matter out today. Hope you like it.
I love this.
It made me miss Carrie, though. We met three or four times over the years, and the last time I saw her I told her the story of how she accidentally saved my life in October 1987 by leaving a party early.
neil-gaiman: I tend to think that Sandman is canonical for Sandman. I’m not going to be bound by anything in, say, the Dreaming or Lucifer or one of the spin-offs if I don’t want to be, and I would happily use it if it is something that fits with what I am planning to do. … Continue reading Hey Neil, what’re your feelings on the various Sandman spinoffs, like The Dreaming and MERV, Agent of DREAM, etc.? Do you consider them to be canonical or do you take a different view, like Moore does with the Before Watchmen series?
I wrote the first 5,000 words of William the Antichrist. It had a demon named Crawleigh. He drove a Citroen 2CV, and was ineffectual. Proper demons like Hastur and Ligur loathed him. It had a baby swap. I sent it to a few friends for feedback. Then my graphic novel Sandman happened, and it was almost a year later that the phone rang.
“It’s Terry,” said Terry. “‘Ere. That thing you sent me. Are you doing anything with it?“
“Not really.”
“Well, I think I know what happens next. Do you want to sell it to me? Or write it together?”
“Write it together,” I said, because I was not stupid, and because that was the nearest I was ever going to get to Michaelangelo phoning to ask if I wanted to paint a ceiling with him.
Neil Gaiman
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