The art of adaptation: an interview with P. Craig Russell / Kyle Eveleth and Joseph Michael Sommers. The lighter side of Neil Gaiman -- Perspective, empathy, and activism: Neil Gaiman's the view from the cheap seats / Tara Prescott -- Comics grammar in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's picture book collaborations / Krystal Howard -- Dreaming the universe: the sandman: overture, creation myths, and the ultimate observer / Kristine Larsen -- Neil Gaiman and the multifarious approach to the superhero / Darren Harris-Fain -- 'No light, but rather darkness visible': illuminating Gaiman's murkier pages -- At the edge of the barely perceptible: temporality and masculinity in Mr. Punch and Violent Cases / Christopher D. Kilgore -- 'Evil witch! I'm not scared!': monstrous visualizations of the other mother in multimodal adaptations of Neil Gaiman's Coraline / Justin Wigard -- Between mimesis and fantasy: binaries and boundaries in the books of magic / Andrew Eichel -- Inverted spaces: rising from the London Below and the dark lands in Neverwhere and Mirrormask / Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem -- Gaiman's brumous boundaries and the liminal space -- The shadow or the self: the construction of Neil Gaiman on social media / Lanette Cadle -- Damsels in deep rest no more: the coalescence of light and dark in Blueberry Girl, The Wolves In the Walls, and The Sleeper and The Spindle / Danielle Russell -- Liminality and the gothic sublime of The Sandman / Erica McCrystal -- Queering space in Neil Gaiman's illustrated works / Renata Lucena Dalmaso and Thayse Madella -- Weaving new dreams from old cloth: conceptual blending and hybrid identities in Neil Gaiman's fairy-tale retellings / Anna Katrina Gutierrez -- 'The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before': afterthoughts, filters, and interviews -- Coda : 'A walking shadow': life as a reader and author of Neil Gaiman / Joe Sutliff Sanders -- Interviews -- A short conversation with Neil Gaiman on comics / Joseph Michael Sommers -- The art of adaptation: an interview with P. Craig Russell / Kyle Eveleth and Joseph Michael Sommers.
Summary:
"Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) reigns as one of the most critically decorated and popular authors of the last fifty years. Perhaps best known as the writer of the Harvey, Eisner, and World Fantasy-award winning series The Sandman, Gaiman quickly became equally renowned in literary circles for Neverwhere, Coraline, and award-winning American Gods, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning The Graveyard Book. For adults, children, comics readers, and viewers of the BBC's Doctor Who, Gaiman's writing has crossed the borders of virtually all media, making him a celebrity around the world. Despite Gaiman's incredible contributions to comics from such works as Miracleman to the aforementioned The Sandman, his work remains underrepresented in sustained fashion in comics studies. As American Gods tops ratings charts for STARZ, it seems timely to bring the bulk of Gaiman's illustrated texts under scholarly inquiry. The thirteen essays and two interviews with Gaiman and his frequent collaborator, artist P. Craig Russell, examine the work of Gaiman and his many illustrators. The essays discuss Gaiman's oeuvre regarding the qualities that make his work unique in his eschewing of typical categories, his proclamations to "make good art," and his own constant efforts to do so however the genres and audiences may slip into one another. The Artistry of Neil Gaiman forms a complicated picture of a man who always seems fully assembled virtually from the start of his career, but only came to feel comfortable in his own voice far later in life."--Provided by publisher.
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