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GODS AND TULIPS written by NEIL GAIMAN!
THIS VERSION IS OUT OF PRINT. HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEM.
ONE OF THE RAREST GAIMAN PUBLICATIONS!
Original 1st PRINT, 1st EDITION!
Interested in writing comics? Gaiman writes about writing for comics as well as the comics industry!
A great Michael Kaluta cover that is filled with Gaiman's writings, speeches & miscellania on comics & more.
"Good Comics And Why You Should Sell Them" Essay by Neil Gaiman
"On Signings" Essay by Neil Gaiman, illustrations by Chester Brown
"Writing (The PRO/con Speech)" Essay (well, ok, a speech) by Neil Gaiman, illustrations by Rembrandt van Rijn
Neil Gaiman is probably the greatest talent in comics during these past twenty years. Hence, who better to comment upon this form of communication/literature/entertainment than Gaiman himself. Contained in GODS AND TULIPS are three speeches (in the form of essays)the Gaiman delivers on the world of comic books. The topics range from the horrible practice of buying comic-books as "investments" (as opposed to buying them to be read and enjoyed) to how to properly set up a signing engagement for a comic-book creator. Each of the essays contained in this collection is enhanced by some expressive (not to mention sometimes hilarious) illustrations by various guest artists.
these works of prose are entertaining and enjoyable (no surprise, considering that they come from Neil Gaiman's pen)...and, very often, Neil Gaiman's comments, observations and insights are keenly astute and hit the bulls-eye! This is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of comic-books!
Published by 1999 by Westhampton House.
About the Author
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling Gaiman said “One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I’m writing novels I’m painfully aware that I’m working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like The Golden Ass. And you go, well, I don’t know that I’m as good as that and that’s two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like — I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun.”