Neil Gaiman and More

It was one of the most exciting things I've had the opportunity to do as a journalist, I got to interview Neil Gaiman.  Monday night, he read half of Chapter 7 of The Graveyard Book (it's a really, really long chapter), showed a preview of the new Coraline film and read the poem he wrote for Tori Amos, Blueberry Girl.  I met with him a half-hour before the reading, stayed for the entire presentation and then came home to start transcribing and writing.  The hardest part was editing the transcript to fit into the word count.

The story ran in the LA Weekly online yesterday.

What was amazing was the response from my friends within minutes of posting the link on MySpace.  Apparently, we all read The Sandman comics in our teens.

In other comic related news, I picked up a copy of the latest issue of Giant Robot, which features a Box Assassin Hitman comic strip from Jeaux Janovsky.  Jeaux is an old friend of mine, in fact he might have been the person who turned me onto The Sandman back in the early 1990s, and we have collaborated on projects in the past (maybe the future too?).  Check out his work.