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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 (novel)|Stardust]]'' and ''[[Coraline (novel)|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]]'' 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 (novel)|Snow White]]", as a mindvirus that he hoped would prevent the reader from ever experiencing the original innocently again. His [[External Retcon]] of ''[[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]].
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