History Creator / NeilGaiman

* ''Death: The High Cost of Living''. (In "[[DevelopmentHell development]]", but [=IMDb=] puts its release in 2013.

He's especially famous for his UrbanFantasy works, including the renowned ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' comic series, which was the first (and only) work in its medium to win a WorldFantasyAward for Best Short Story [[hottip:*: To prevent it happening again, they changed the rules so that comic books had to be relegated to their own special category, and couldn't be judged alongside prose works]]. Two of his novels, ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' and ''Literature/{{Coraline}},'' have been made into movies. He's also written scripts for other projects, such as ''MirrorMask'' by Creator/DaveMcKean and the ''{{Neverwhere}}'' TV series. In addition, he worked on the translated script of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. Most recently, his young adult work ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'' became the first book to win both the NewberyMedal and the CarnegieMedal.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', ''Death: The High Cost of Living'', ''Death: The Time of Your Life'', ''Sandman: the Dream Hunters'' (a short story illustrated by YoshitakaAmano), and ''The Sandman: Endless Nights''.

Here's a [[AwesomenessIsVolatile screen-breaking]] photo with him, NealStephenson and NeilArmstrong.

A contemporary British writer of stories. Of all known kinds.

He's especially famous for his UrbanFantasy works, including the renowned ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' comic series, which was the first (and only) work in its medium to win a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story [[hottip:*: To prevent it happening again, they changed the rules so that comic books had to be relegated to their own special category, and couldn't be judged alongside prose works]]. Two of his novels, ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' and ''Literature/{{Coraline}},'' have been made into movies. He's also written scripts for other projects, such as ''MirrorMask'' by DaveMcKean and the ''{{Neverwhere}}'' TV series. In addition, he worked on the translated script of ''PrincessMononoke''. Most recently, his young adult work ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'' became the first book to win both the NewberyMedal and the CarnegieMedal.

* ''PrincessMononoke'' (he wrote the [[{{Woolseyism}} Woolseyist]] script)

StephenKing thinks NeilGaiman may well be the greatest storyteller alive today, and has said so publicly. Considering this is StephenKing talking, that's saying something.

* ''Goliath'', a ''[[TheMatrix Matrix]]'' comic.

* ''Literature/AmericanGods'' upcoming in 2013 [[AndTheFandomRejoiced from HBO as a miniseries.]]

* ''Film/{{Coraline}}''

He's married to AmandaPalmer of The Dresden Dolls. He has a [[http://twitter.com/#!/neilhimself Twitter account]] and a [[http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog]], as well as a [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/ more traditional blog]], one of the first blogs on the internet (it was originally created to document his promotion tour for AmericanGods back in 2001, and it took off from there).

* ''Literature/GoodOmens'', in collaboration with TerryPratchett

-->-- ''ComicBook/TheSandman''

[-[[caption-width-right:339:Neil "Scary Trousers" Gaiman, master of modern horror[[hottip:*:epithet and nickname given by AlanMoore]]]]-]

->''Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.''

[-[[caption-width-right:339:Neil "Scary Trousers" Gaiman, master of modern horror[[hottip:*:epithet and nickname given by {{Alan Moore}}]]]]-]

-->-- ''TheSandman''

He's especially famous for his UrbanFantasy works, including the renowned ''TheSandman'' comic series, which was the first (and only) work in its medium to win a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story [[hottip:*: To prevent it happening again, they changed the rules so that comic books had to be relegated to their own special category, and couldn't be judged alongside prose works]]. Two of his novels, ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' and ''Literature/{{Coraline}},'' have been made into movies. He's also written scripts for other projects, such as ''{{MirrorMask}}'' by DaveMcKean and the ''{{Neverwhere}}'' TV series. In addition, he worked on the translated script of ''PrincessMononoke''. Most recently, his young adult work ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'' became the first book to win both the NewberyMedal and the CarnegieMedal.

* ''TheSandman'', ''Death: The High Cost of Living'', ''Death: The Time of Your Life'', ''Sandman: the Dream Hunters'' (a short story illustrated by YoshitakaAmano), and ''The Sandman: Endless Nights''.

[[folder: Novels]]

[[folder: Films]]

** The Gaim, one of the alien races in ''Babylon Five'', is named for him. And just to hammer the homage further, they all strongly resemble [[TheSandman Dream Of The Endless]].

He's married to AmandaPalmer of The Dresden Dolls. He has a [[http://twitter.com/#!/neilhimself Twitter account]] and a [[http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog]].

* AdamWesting: specifically, his guest appearance on ''TheSimpsons'' in 2011

* SesameStreetCred: He guest starred as himself in an episode of {{Arthur}}.

Recently delivered [[http://vimeo.com/42372767 an awe-inspiring (and quite hilarious) commencement speech]] to the 2012 graduates of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

He's especially famous for his UrbanFantasy works, including the renowned ''TheSandman'' comic series, which was the first work (and only) work in its medium to win a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story [[hottip:*: To prevent it happening again, they changed the rules so that comic books had to be relegated to their own special category, and couldn't be judged alongside prose works]]. Two of his novels, ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' and ''Literature/{{Coraline}},'' have been made into movies. He's also written scripts for other projects, such as ''{{MirrorMask}}'' by DaveMcKean and the ''{{Neverwhere}}'' TV series. In addition, he worked on the translated script of ''PrincessMononoke''. Most recently, his young adult work ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'' became the first book to win both the NewberyMedal and the CarnegieMedal.

[-[[caption-width-right:339:Neil "Scary Trousers" Gaiman, master of modern horror[[hottip:*:epithet and nickname given by Alan Moore]]]]-]

Recently delivered an awe-inspiring (and quite hilarious) commencement speech to the 2012 graduates of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. [[http://uarts.alliedpixel.net/ It starts at 87:30.]]