Neil Gaiman: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.''|''[[The Sandman]]''}}

He's especially famous for his [[Urban Fantasy]] works, including the renowned ''[[The Sandman]]'' comic series, which was the first (and only) work in its medium to win a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story <ref> To prevent it happening again, they changed the rules so that comic books had to be relegated to their own special category, and couldn't be judged alongside prose works</ref>. Two of his novels, ''[[Stardust (Literaturenovel)|Stardust]]'' and ''[[Coraline (Literaturenovel)|Coraline]],'' have been made into movies. He's also written scripts for other projects, such as ''[[Mirror Mask]]'' by [[Dave McKean]] and the ''[[Neverwhere]]'' TV series. In addition, he worked on the translated script of ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''. Most recently, his young adult work ''[[The Graveyard Book (Literature)|The Graveyard Book]]'' became the first book to win both the [[Newbery Medal]] and the [[Carnegie Medal]].

A masterful storyteller, he excels at building believable, yet fantastic settings for his stories. His works are marked by extensive use of mythological references and symbolism, often times in "modern" settings. Also a notable [[One of Us]], and despite his work's breathtaking popularity, he has remained remarkably humble and personable, managing to remain faintly bemused every time he finds hundreds of people waiting for him to sign their books or whatnot. Also, he's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013065040/http://media.whosay.com/6734/6734_la.jpg highly respectable marsh-wiggle] with a ''very'' [[Nice Hat]]. [[Adorkable]]? Quite.

Gaiman has some affection for [[Canon Defilement]]- and is living proof that this particularly negative [[Tropes Are Tools|trope isn't bad]]. He described ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120423074536/http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples/ Snow, Glass, Apples],'' a [[Perspective Flip]] of "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Literaturenovel)|Snow White]]", as a mindvirus that he hoped would prevent the reader from ever experiencing the original innocently again. His [[External Retcon]] of ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'' pulls a similar trick. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130115022507/http://shedletsky.com/blog/the-god-who-loves-you The Problem of Susan]'' is something of a meta-twist on the concept, riffing off of Susan's exile from [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Narnia]]: her embrace of adolescence means that, ''retroactively,'' she experienced the original adventure as a [[Darker and Edgier]] pagan allegory. He is also fairly preoccupied with, though not necessarily an apologist for, [[Muse Abuse]].

Sung a song about Jeanne d'Arc with [[Ben Folds (Music)|Ben Folds]] on piano. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121228195724/http://music.amandapalmer.net/track/the-problem-with-saints It is magnificent.]

=== {{tropelist|Tropes of which [[Neil Gaiman]] is an example: ===}}

* [[Adam Westing]]: specifically, his guest appearance on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in 2011

* [[Sesame Street Cred]]: He guest starred as himself in an episode of ''[[Arthur]]''.

=== {{tropelist|Tropes common in his work: ===}}

* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]

* [[Did We Just Have Tea Withwith Cthulhu?]]

=== {{examples|His works include: ===}}

* ''[[Black Orchid (Comic Book)|Black Orchid]]''

* One issue of ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]''

* ''[[The Last Temptation (Comic Book)|The Last Temptation]]'': A collaboration with Alice Cooper.

* ''[[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]: [[Whatever Happened to Thethe Caped Crusader?]]?''

* ''[[Metamorpho (Comic Book)|Metamorpho The Element Man]]'' in ''[[Wednesday Comics]]''

* ''[[Stardust (Literaturenovel)|Stardust]]''

* ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'', in collaboration with [[Terry Pratchett]]

* ''[[Coraline (Literaturenovel)|Coraline]]''

* ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]''

* ''[[Anansi Boys (Literature)|Anansi Boys]]''

* ''[[The Graveyard Book (Literature)|The Graveyard Book]]''

* ''[[Fragile Things]]''

* ''[[Stardust (Filmfilm)|Stardust]]''

* ''[[Beowulf (Filmfilm)|Beowulf]]'' (the 2007 film)

* ''[[Coraline (Filmanimation)|Coraline]]''

* ''[[Anansi Boys (Literature)|Anansi Boys]]'' (upcoming, no due date, but he has at least finished and handed in a rough draft of the script)

* He has writtenWrote an episode for the 2011 series of ''[[DoctorBabylon Who5]]'',: "[[DoctorDay Who/Recap/S32of E4the The Doctors Wife|The Doctor's Wife]]Dead".

* ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'' upcoming in 2013 [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|from HBO as a miniseries.]]