I think it's supposed to be Delirium from Sandman:
http://www.obscure.org/~domino/images/delirium.jpg
...though if I remember correctly, Gaiman denies it in some of his introductions to the Sandman books and says Tori is more like Death. Anyway, the book where that strip is taken from does feature Delirium visiting an S/M club where a Tori Amos song is playing on the background.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/thewire/pip/4uyaw/
no Listen Again link on page but it's here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio3_promo.shtmlunder 'The Wire'
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: correspondingly more exaggerated mixing is a scarifying error. (lat, Monday, 7 March 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.ojaiwan.net/cwimages/prophecy3theasce_01.jpg
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
wonder if this means Coraline will be decent or not.... i <3 experimental animation and the handmade everything production... but Neil Gaiman?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_(film)
― ☞*☜ (friendly ghost), Sunday, 4 January 2009 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Will refuse to date a Gaiman fan.
― KIN WITH SHAQ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 4 January 2009 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, am reading a Gaiman novel at the moment. It's quite good, but basically just Terry Pratchett ripped out of Discworld and slapped onto America. Nothing outstanding, but a pleasant read.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
from a place of ignorance I have always had a "ewww" feeling about this person- probably because I think that great literature is already "goth" enough, thanks.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
oooh handy filter thx
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:52 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post would that be American Gods, Sick Mouthy? That's a pretty good book if so, the only one of his I've read.
― Neil S, Sunday, 4 January 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Aye, that's what I'm reading. I've also read Anansi Boys, and the one with Pratchett from years ago.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i like Gaiman a lot but generally think his novels are a bit rub. his best work is either Sandman or his children's/YA novels - both Coraline and The Graveyard Book are aces.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Sunday, 4 January 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe I should revive my Kipling thread for this but I just started reading Puck of Pook's Hill, and the idea behind American God's is basically Puck's monologue with America substituted for England:
'But they didn't all flit at once. They dropped off, one by one,through the centuries. Most of them were foreigners whocouldn't stand our climate. They flitted early.'
'How early?' said Dan.
'A couple of thousand years or more. The fact is theybegan as Gods. The Phoenicians brought some overwhen they came to buy tin; and the Gauls, and the Jutes,and the Danes, and the Frisians, and the Angles broughtmore when they landed. They were always landing inthose days, or being driven back to their ships, and theyalways brought their Gods with them. England is a badcountry for Gods.
...
They were a stiff-necked, extravagant set of idols, the Old Things. Butwhat was the result? Men don't like being sacrificed at thebest of times; they don't even like sacrificing their farm-horses. After a while, men simply left the Old Thingsalone, and the roofs of their temples fell in, and the OldThings had to scuttle out and pick up a living as theycould."
― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Thursday, 8 January 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked "Good Omens" in my Pratchett years, and now I am twice as old I remember it more fondly than the Discworld series, and my embarrassment at former Pratchett fandom leads me to believe that maybe it was good because of Gaiman, and that I should read Gaiman's other work; but maybe I'm just a little too hasty to deny my disowned teenage canon and swap it for someone else's.
Anyway I saw a band called American Gods last year and they were v good, so perhaps I should have faith in their apparent name source.
(None of this is of any use or interest to anyone else, but what I mean to say is that I'll be lurking around the thread picking up recommendations so I can see which of my kneejerk suspicions is right)
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 January 2009 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i enjoyed american gods.
it's a lot like the thing he did with early sandman (and moore did with watchmen and top 10, and morrison did with zenith) - rescuing characters from obscurity. is fun on a 'spot the reference' level.
anansi boys has been languishing on my amazon wishlist from before it was published...
― koogs, Thursday, 8 January 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Puck of Pook's Hill is great, Clotpoll! The story with the Roman Centurion is particularly atmospheric...
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Thursday, 8 January 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Anansi Boys is pretty unmemorable. I'm quite up for the Graveyard Book, he writes well for children.
― chap, Thursday, 8 January 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward Coraline, but that's really down to being a Henry Selick fan and the hopes that one day he will do something as winsome as The Nightmare Before Christmas again.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 8 January 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
what's the current Gaiman/Russell Sandman comic like?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
What's that, DV? I can't find any info on it. I love P Craig Russell (I assume that's the Russell in question).
― chap, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
zomg spacecadet we are in oppositeland of teenagedom:
my embarrassment at former Pratchett Gaiman fandom leads me to believe that maybe it was good because of Gaiman Pratchett, and that I should read Gaiman's Pratchett's other work; but maybe I'm just a little too hasty to deny my disowned teenage canon and swap it for someone else's.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Or maybe Good Omens is just good in its own way?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I'LL FORM THE HEAD
I hate Gaiman but I may go see Coraline.
― ShamPowWow (libcrypt), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Pratchett gets a bad rap, he's a smart guy - probably smarter than Gaiman, despite being a less gifted storyteller. Not that I'd actually bother to read one of his novels now, but I'm glad I did.
― chap, Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Good Omens is class, even if some of the jokes are pretty dated now. might be the best thing either of them have done.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Hooray for Youtube scrobbler, a great idea!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Thursday, 8 January 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Oops sorry guys wrong thread I'll go back to the last.fm area...
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Thursday, 8 January 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
'Anansi Boys' is a big dull dud, sadly. 'Good Omens' is still good, though.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Anansi Boys was a borderline-racist embarassment.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Russell's writing and drawing an adaptation of The Dream Hunters, the old Gaiman-written Amano-illustrated Sandman prose book.
― Lightbulb Classic (sic), Friday, 9 January 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The voice casting for Coraline looks promising at least: Keith David (cat), John Hodgman, French & Saunders
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 January 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Keith David!
― chap, Monday, 26 January 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I have high hopes.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 January 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Meantime, Newbery Award ahoy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/books/27newb.html?_r=1&8dpc
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 January 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
The film is good -- nice 3D -- even if they added a co-conspirator boy and kinda muffed the 'second climax.'
Of course, it's more American than the book (not just the setting change). I'm kinda curious about what the Stephin Merritt stage musical version will be like...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I am looking forward to this, the animation looks lovely.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 2 February 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, should be a treat. It will be interesting to compare it to MirrorMask since Gaiman's said that was essentially his own demi-adaptation of the book's story.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the single They Might Be Giants song kinda sticks out, though.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
They Might Be Giants? o_O
― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 2 February 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Quite a bit of the score employs children's choral stuff. Nothing scarier.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ha I thought that was TMBG, other dad even looked just like John Flansberg.
― GLEEPGLOP BLOOPBLORP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 05:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Before this (Coraline I mean) I hadn't seen a 3D film since the red & blue specs days and so maybe I was just a little blown away by what technology now affords but holy shit I really enjoyed this movie. When she first opened the door to the stretchy blue tunnel I actually caught myself gasping.
― GLEEPGLOP BLOOPBLORP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Also as far as his books go I think I benefited from reading Anansi Boys first of his books, I do still like it but it's not nearly as enveloping as American Gods or The Cemetery Book.
He has a short story about, um, some kids and a weird house in a garden with a warning on it or something I read one night and found actually frightening...I have a terrible memory though and don't remember it's name or what compilation it's from.
― GLEEPGLOP BLOOPBLORP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anyone else see Coraline, then? Just got back from a 3D showing, since those are about to stop, I hear -- great film, echoing Morbz and Nickalicious in praise for it, another Selick slam-dunk and I was pleased to see how relatively packed the theater was for it a couple of weeks after release. Thinking of it, MirrorMask and Stardust as a sort-of group in three different ways to adapt similar variants makes for good contemplation.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 February 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
mirrormask wasn't an adaptation of anything, i don't think? unless that's not what you mean.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Sunday, 22 February 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
In the promo/commentary/whatever on the MirrorMask DVD Gaiman talks about how MirrorMask and Coraline (the book) were simultaneous riffs on the same general idea -- I forget the exact details.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 February 2009 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
So, it turns out Lucien the Librarian in Sandman might've been a self-portrait.
http://blog.shelfari.com/.a/6a00d8341e478253ef0120a4e31b10970b-pi
http://blog.shelfari.com/.a/6a00d8341e478253ef0120a4e31b06970b-pi
http://blog.shelfari.com/.a/6a00d8341e478253ef0120a4e31ae8970b-pi
http://blog.shelfari.com/.a/6a00d8341e478253ef0120a4e31ae0970b-pi
That's quite a lot of books! I wonder what percentage of them he has actually read? Anyway, gotta love the jackalope head on the wall.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 6 September 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it's an issue with clive barker as well. something about british horror/fantasy.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
akmPosted: November 5, 2016 at 8:52:29 AMdid that not happen?lol(Candyman seems perfectly suited to its budget fwiw imo)
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 03:44 (one year ago) link