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Neil Gaiman!!! By: Mark Morgan on 3/10/2001; 1:03 PM If memory serves, the First Advisor was the person who first introduced me to Neil Gaiman's seminal work on The Sandman. ("If memory serves" being shorthand for "I don't remember but I'll pretend I do". BS is part of the writer's art. Even in nonfiction. Now you know, but shh! Keep it to yourself, okay?) Sandman was a series of graphic novels about stories and storytelling. It starred Dream, one of the Eternals. A seriously dystunctional family, the Eternals embodied various aspects of the universe like Dream, Destruction, Destiny, Despair, Delirium, and Death. Death Takes a Holiday, a standalone side trip for the teenage girl Death, is in production for the big screen. (One of the few things that the First Advisor and I agree on is that of all the parts of the Sandman story they could have picked, they picked the weakest one.) The graphic novels on one level were about Dream's adventures, first as he was captured by humans in the 1800s, then his restoration to power in modern times, then his subsequent realization that he had lost touch with humanity. The story had an arc, and after it ended Gaimain, and the graphic novels, called it a day. It's my understanding that the dream world still has its own series, but Gaiman's not involved. But on a deeper level they were about storytelling. As Lord of Dreams, Morpheus of course was Lord of Stories. This was even made explicit in on story about the capture of the muse Calliope by humans and her subsequent rescue by Dream. And what is Neil Gaiman doing nowadays? Well, he's up for a Nebula award for the adaptation of the screenplay for Princess Mononoke. If you want to learn more about Gaiman's current activities, what would you do? You'd visit his weblog, that's what you'd do. Yay! I can but dream to match this man's skill in storytelling, and reading his daily (mostly) journal is a fantastic opportunity. How long can Stephen King hold out, I wonder? All writers should have a weblog.
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