Let us all just take a moment to appreciate how beautiful the 2012 hardcover edition of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is. Not only is it one of my favorite books and a lovely tale, but the design of the book is gorgeous and fits the story perfectly. And look at those new Charles Vess illustrations! The most beautiful book currently on my bookshelf in terms of design. And what an experience to hold and interact with this beauty. This is why paper books will never disappear.
There aren’t a lot of photographs of me aged 23 as a starving young journalist in London. But I just noticed that I had this in the office here, and scanned it from my British Library Reading Room card (they would cut the old card in half when they gave you a new card and give you the photo back).
I was not even wearing black yet. Even the leather jacket was grey.
The four bikers of the Apocalypse.
It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world.
So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them.
And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation.
So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy.
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“Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.” Neil Gaiman’s 8 rules of writing.
If you do not think that Mr. Nancy is one of the cooler gods to have appeared in witty/delightful novels then you are wrong and you can just sit there and be wrong in your wrongness.
I have the has-to-be-wrong feeling that this is the first fan-art picture of Mr Nancy I’ve seen. So glad to see him cropping up.
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When I was seven I used to climb down drainpipes, because boys in books climbed down drainpipes.
This is a photograph of me and my drainpipes.
Move over Wil Wheaton’s crappy ping pong ball; the internet has a new star today.It’s one thing to have a meme happen…it’s another to TELL people about it.
I … love this more than words can describe.
I love De Niro’s Captain Shakespeare so much. Can we all just take a moment to admire what a pretty man he is?
Also, Septimus in the backgrodnd… Perfection.
the new Neil “make good art” hats have arrived and the embroidery stitching is not ghostly white as I had pictured, but a pale silvery moonshine thread instead—i LOVE them.
Any orders this holiday bluemoon weekend will get all these stickers & a lime bookmark thrown in—
click on the photo to get to the little beauties…
I wish to own the Make-Good-Art hat. My quest to get a job just became much more important.
Neil Gaiman
Bloody hell… That’s really wonderful.
