Neil Gaiman - Kid Goth

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(The New Yorker) - Gaiman, who is forty-nine and English, with a pale
face and a wild, corkscrewed mop of black-and-gray hair, is unusually
prolific. In addition to horror, he writes fantasy, fairy tales,
science fiction, and apocalyptic romps, in the form of novels, comics,
picture books, short stories, poems, and screenplays (Neil Gaiman
bibliography at Amazon.com: http://tr.im/NeilG ). Now and then, he
writes a song. Gaiman�s books are genre pieces that refuse to remain
true to their genres, and his audience is broader than any purist�s:
he defines his readership as �bipeds.� His mode is syncretic, with
sources ranging from English folktales to glam rock and the Midrash,
and enchantment is his major theme: life as we know it, only prone to
visitations by Norse gods, trolls, Arthurian knights, and
kindergarten-age zombies. �Neil�s writing is kind of fey in the best
sense of the word,� the comic-book writer Alan Moore told me. �His
best effects come out of people or characters or situations in the
real world being starkly juxtaposed with this misty fantasy world.�...

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