The Boys Who Might’ve Been Harry Potter

An everyday bespectacled teenage boy from Britain suddenly discovers that he is destined to become the most powerful magician of all – oh, and that he has a surprising affinity with owls. It’s the formula that made JK Rowling’s Harry Potter a massive success, but seven years earlier, Neil Gaiman was doing exactly the same [...]

Neil Gaiman: Death Movie Is Dead Because Of DC Entertainment

The long saga of the movie version of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman spin-off, Death: The High Cost of Living, seems to have come to the latest in a line of endings with Gaiman’s proclaiming the project a victim of Warner Bros’ recent renewed focus on DC Comics properties. In a new interview with Vulture, he said,

How Many Spawns Did Neil Gaiman Create?

The ongoing legal action between Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane over creation and ownership of characters from McFarlane’s Spawn series looks set to drag on even longer, with US District Judge Barbara Crabb giving both sides an additional ten days to submit additional arguments for their respective cases before reaching a verdict.

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Reading the Tea Leaves: Marvelman Returns, Kind Of

There was a bit of a surprise in this morning’s Marvel solicitation announcements: they’re finally going to be publishing Marvelman comics. They’re just not the ones people actually want to read.

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Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010

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Monday, Feb. 8, 2010