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New Neil Gaiman interview
Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times interviewed British fantasy novelist Neil Gaiman on the 29th of December 2008.
“If you were a betting man, up until that point in ongoing comics, critical success was completely synonymous with commercial failure,” Gaiman said. “The two were so utterly hand-in-hand. With ‘Sandman,’ we were getting the critical success, but we weren’t getting the commercial failure. At issue No. 8 we were selling more than anything comparable had sold for 25 years before that.”
Stephen King, Tori Amos and the late Norman Mailer were just some of the vocal devotees of the comics, which have been republished now as trade paperback collections and even lavish hardcover editions that reach more readers today than ever before.
Read the full LA Times interview – Even for Neil Gaiman, ‘The Sandman’ is a singular dream
Neil Gaiman is one of the top ten living post-modern writers, and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama.
Posted: January 6th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Neil Gaiman
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