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Gaiman in London shock!

sleazenation

17:13 / 22.07.02

Yes its true, sometimes comic writer Neil Gaiman will be in London this week to plug his new book "Coraline".

As part of this we are invited to "an evening with Neil Gaiman" - apparently in the form of a reading from his new book and him chatting to Lizo Mzimba (from newsround).

This extravaganza will be occuring at the TUC centre on gt. russel st. thursday 22 August at 7pm with tickets priced at £4.

So, is anyone remotely interested? or is Gaiman's decision to charge money to make a sales sales pitch for his new book rather less than enticing?

invisible_al

17:15 / 22.07.02

Will there be wine? Nibbles? I'll consider it if there are nibbles

Bill Posters

17:26 / 22.07.02

Oh crap. I am utterly committed to summat else on thursday. Oh well.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

18:05 / 22.07.02

So that's 'this week' as in three weeks time? Sounds interesting, and being a thursday I can make it. Is there a phone number for tickets or will you buy a ticket and I'll pay you back? Because I'm there.

Bill Posters

18:37 / 22.07.02

Ooops, didn't read it properly. Then there's a possibility I can do this.

yawn - thing's buddy

18:37 / 22.07.02

shock!

surely there are several gay men in london?

yes

I'm getting my coat.

pacha perplexa

19:43 / 22.07.02

Sir, I am quite interested.
He went to Sao Paulo last year on an autograph night of that book about the japanese legend of the lady that becomes a fox (sorry, forgot the name) and he was very, very sweet and patient (more than 2000 people came that night, and he was nice to every one). I'd really like to hear him, out of respect and curiosity, kinda. And because he made me cry a coupla times with Sandman.
So how's it gonna be?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

20:28 / 22.07.02

That'll be 'The Dream Hunters' you're thinking of Pacha? Brilliant stuff.

sleazenation

20:44 / 22.07.02

d'oh - should have put this up earlier for tickets and further info contact may body on 020 7440 1553

Cherry Bomb

12:20 / 24.07.02

Hey sleazy-sleaze, in your intro post you say Gaiman's coming this week, but then the dates are for later. Which is it? 'Cuz I'd like to come, if it's at a time in which I'm in the country...

Cherry Bomb

12:20 / 24.07.02

I mean, is he coming to London twice? Or just the one time in August?

sleazenation

13:53 / 24.07.02

to clarify - gaiman, like christmas - comes just once a year and that time is August - the earier part of my post was a flyboy like assumption that it was this week.

Cherry Bomb

19:41 / 24.07.02

If memory of certain movies serves me correctly, sometimes Christmas comes more than once a year...

but i digress...

Tryphena Absent

13:13 / 25.07.02

Me and my friend Vicki have a number of questions to ask Neil Gaiman mostly about other people who he knows. So - ohmygod - I am so so interested. It's been 5 years since I last saw the man after all, that's quite a long time, I guess.

jUne, a sunshiny month

13:44 / 25.07.02

i've heard that the man is a real delicious meal for the ears when it comes to talk about what inhabits him when her calliope is around his inspirations... and i agree with cherry-flavoured-bomb : x-mas is a lot more once a year, depending if you live in a turboreactor plane and go around earth in the good way.

for those of you who'll be there, enjoy, and grab some of his dreamy waves with you. we all need a few, i suppose.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:43 / 25.07.02

God, that's the best description of NG I've ever seen, Sleaze, what is that number you've put up there, is it a box office or something because I tried it earlier and got no reply...

NotBlue

19:03 / 26.07.02

All fairness to g-man, probs not his desc to charge - promoters/venue.

OT so strong but anyone else think american gods deserved that fantasya awarrd, i dont read a lot of fantasy, but i liked it, how did it compare?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

19:37 / 26.07.02

Well, the only other one I had read was 'Perdido Street Station' which, to be fair, I think was better.

adamswish

18:12 / 30.07.02

with a bit of planning and time off work (and someones sofa to crash on) I think I could do this as well.

Will let you know just after I do.

Old brown-eye is back

22:27 / 30.07.02

Does Neil Gaiman only come once a year? Lordy, imagine the mess.

junejune

14:34 / 07.08.02

speakin of th G-man, is this interview-info book wrote with a guy (called something like Hy Hender , or Bender, or Tenffer, or something -sorry for him!) is still extra cheap at Forbid'zone ?
i remember i bought one for a pal this last x-mas, and i kind of regret do not get one for me.
i guess it was called "sandman companion" or sumthing...
anybody read it ? what do you think ?

Old brown-eye is back

11:50 / 08.08.02

Certainly fancy this. What are other people doing?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:46 / 08.08.02

Thought it was good clean fun but a bit light, being a 'Companion' and not 'Annotations'...

pacha perplexa

17:55 / 08.08.02

Arse, can't go. I'll be in Portugal between the 18th and the 28th.

And Lada, exactly, "Dream Hunters", that's the name of the book. Indeed it's beautiful, a very nice way of presenting a fairy tale.

sleazenation

11:05 / 09.08.02

I will be there. if anyone fancies meeting up.

sleazenation

09:22 / 21.08.02

Just bumping this up to the to to say there will be a few of us going to this meeting up at GOSH (the comic shop opposite the british museum) at 630ish - We'll probably end up heading to the pub after too. If anyone wants to meet up with us later - give us a PM and i'll try to keep you informed.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:22 / 21.08.02

Um...I will be in the Marquis of Granby for a while, but may have left by the time it's over. Give me a call...

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:31 / 21.08.02

And me.

Ellis says:

18:23 / 21.08.02

I might be up for this, tickets are on sale at the door yes?

sleazenation

21:52 / 21.08.02

Not sure if there are any tix at the door, but I got my tix a few weeks after i first posted about this and they still had loads, so i'm guessing its worth a try.

jUne, a sunshiny month

07:37 / 28.08.02

so ? let us know !

sleazenation

07:50 / 28.08.02

What it was like?

It was all very school assembly-like. Mr G read a chapter or two from his new book and was then interviewed on stage. Most of the stuff he talked about was stuff that he has already talked about in interviews before, some interesting background on the genisis of coraline - how it was started as a story for one of his daughters and how she grew up before it was ultimately finished - it being a background project that he worked on when he was feeling bloked on other projects. There was even some amusing revelations about Mr G not meeting every deadline - but how in comics the writer has more motivation (guilt) that if he doesn't meet his deadline then it is impossible for the artist, inker and letterer to do so either.

then there was just time for 3 quick Qs from the audience before the signing queue began in ernest- t which point we exited towards the pub.

Tryphena Absent

02:05 / 29.08.02

and had a very nice time.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

07:32 / 29.08.02

Though if you pressed me as to exactly what was discussed, other than Janina narrowly missing a life as a porn actress, I honestly couldn't tell you...

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