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Gaiman's Sandman

Postby Josealb on Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:48 am

Im hooked. Anybody familiar with it?

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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby shawnsegler on Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:39 am

I'm familiar with it.

The guy who did the original art for it's been one of my best friends since I was 16.
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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby Josealb on Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:44 am

It figures! Considering Morpheus has a Robert Smith thing going on. ;D
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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby chimerical tortoise on Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:16 pm

Not as familiar as with Gaiman's novels.

I highly recommend American Gods, Anansi Boys, and most of all Neverwhere.

Stardust wasn't too bad either, and his short story collections (Fragile Things and Smoke and Mirrors) are both very entertaining.
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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby Teazer on Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:46 pm

Always a favourite. Definitely preferred the Sandman etc graphic novels to his books, though they were fine too.

shawnsegler wrote:I'm familiar with it.
The guy who did the original art for it's been one of my best friends since I was 16.

Cool.

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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby shawnsegler on Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:53 pm

Yeah if you look at the first sandman compilation in the dedications mike misspelled my name as sean s, but it's a nice little piece of credit.

I also posed for a lot of stuff in the early sandmans over lunch or beers...a hand here, a head there. A lot of the endless poster.

I also got to read all of the early stuff in script form before it came out. Fun, fun, fun.

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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby Finny on Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:28 pm

wow - Sandman is without a doubt my fav graphic novel

Got the massive collectors box set thingy a year ago - the entire series in 4 boxed leatherbound volumes
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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby JoseFreitas on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:13 am

Loved Sandman, my company actually published the portuguese version in Portugal, for a few volumes at least, until some major licensing screw up gave the exclusive rights to a brazilian company. The best thing about my job was that we got to pretend we were friends of the authors, and would sit down with them for lunch or coffee in San Diego or Angouleme, or invite them to conventions here.

We ran a convention here in 2003 and Neil Gaiman was guest of honour. He was super nice, it was our first con ever and even though it went well he helped BIG time! He was really cool and nice and easy going, and he got a line of 900 people for autographs! He was promoting Coraline in Portugal at the time.
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Re: Gaiman's Sandman

Postby shawnsegler on Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:54 am

Neil is super nice. I got to bum beer money off of him once. Five bucks...sweet!!
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