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Neil Richard Gaiman [4] was born on 10 November 1960 [5] in Portchester, Hampshire. [6] Gaiman's family is of Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi origins. [7] His great-grandfather emigrated to England from Antwerp before 1914 [8] and his grandfather settled in Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores, changing the family name from Chaiman to Gaiman. [9]
Norse Mythology is a 2017 book by Neil Gaiman, which retells several stories from Norse mythology. In the introduction, Gaiman describes where his fondness for the source material comes from. The book received positive reviews from critics.
Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice vol. 2 #1–9 (written by C. J. Henderson, drawn by Fred Harper (#1 and 6–8), Chris Marrinan (#2–5) and Mike Harris (#9), 1996–1997) In addition to these ongoing titles, two crossovers — one within the "Gaimanverse", the other with the Leonard Nimoy's Primortals series — were also published:
Death: The High Cost of Living (1993), the first of two Gaiman-penned three-issue mini-series starring Morpheus' elder sister and characters from A Game of You. Once every one hundred years Death spends a day in mortal form. WitchCraft (1994), a three-issue mini-series featuring The Three Witches (also The Fates) from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
Gaiman returned to such Nordic inspirations when he wrote Odd and the Frost Giants as a World Book Day publication in 2008. This story is loosely based on the Master-Builder narrative found in the Gylfaginning (Old Norse: The Tricking of Gylfi) section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
Henry Selick, who called The Ocean at the End of the Lane "Neil Gaiman's best book", made an attempt to adapt it into a stop-motion animated feature, and wrote a 50 pages script. He expressed hope that he would eventually produce it. [28] In June 2024, Selick and Gaiman announced development on a stop-motion animated feature film adaptation.
While Gaiman was writing American Gods, his publishers set up a promotional web site featuring a weblog in which Gaiman described the day-to-day process of writing, revising, publishing, and promoting the novel. [16] After the novel was published, the website evolved into a more general Official Neil Gaiman Web Site.
The Books of Magic was a four-issue mini-series published by DC Comics written by Neil Gaiman, later revived as an ongoing series written by John Ney Rieber (issues #1–50) and Peter Gross (issues #51–75).