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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]
Blueberry Girl is a book by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. It was conceived as a poem of the same name, written in 2000 by Neil Gaiman for his goddaughter Tash, the daughter of his friend Tori Amos. [1] In 2004, Neil Gaiman announced that Charles Vess was painting pictures to go with the poem, with the intention of publishing it as book. [2] [3] [4]
In the short history included in the 2004 hardcover edition of the book, Jill Thompson states that the idea of depicting the Endless as children came from a passage Neil Gaiman had written for the Sandman story, "Parliament of Rooks", where one character relates a story about when Death and Dream were children.
Director Henry Selick met author Neil Gaiman just as Gaiman was finishing the novel Coraline, which was published in 2002, and as Gaiman was a fan of Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), he invited him to make a film adaptation. As Selick thought a direct adaptation would lead to "maybe a 47-minute movie", his screenplay had some ...
In June 2007, Neil Gaiman reported in his journal that DreamWorks Animation optioned the book to make it into an animated feature film. [ 3 ] In June 2016, the previous plans to make InterWorld a television series were revived by Universal Cable Productions , in association with Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller and his partner Flody Suarez.
The Sandman grew out of a proposal by Neil Gaiman to revive DC's 1974–1976 series The Sandman, written by Joe Simon and Michael Fleisher and illustrated by Jack Kirby and Ernie Chua. Gaiman had considered including characters from the "Dream Stream" (including the Kirby Sandman, Brute, Glob, and the brothers Cain and Abel ) in a scene for the ...
McKean has collaborated with Neil Gaiman on four children's picture books, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (1998), The Wolves in the Walls (2003), Crazy Hair (2009), and Mirrormask (2005), and illustrated Gaiman's children's novels Coraline (2002) and The Graveyard Book (2008), as well as S. F. Said's Varjak Paw (2003), Outlaw Varjak ...
The Endless characters were created by Neil Gaiman and first appeared in the comic book series The Sandman (1989–1996). They embody forces of nature in the DC Universe . They are depicted as among the most powerful beings in the world of these characters, [ 1 ] and are distinct in this universe from gods, which are created by mortal belief.