* Author Neil Gaiman wrote a short story called " One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock '" about a troubled boy who loves the stories about Elric, and finds escape from the everyday world in them.

Joanna Scanlan plays a character called Mormo in the 2007 movie Stardust, which is based on a novel by Neil Gaiman.

A Walking Tour of the Shambles ( Little Walks For Sightseers # 16 ) ( 2002 ), written by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, is a tour guide concerning a fictional part of Chicago called ' The Shambles '.

During an interview to be included in the audio book Neil Gaiman explained how, one day while driving he had seen a wall on the side of the road and had conceived the idea of Faerie being behind the wall, this sparked an idea in his head about an American novelist who moved to England where he would find out about this wall, this book was to be called, very simply, Wall.

Drawing on a childhood spent working his way through the children's section in his local library and a childhood love of magic and fantasy stories such as T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Gaiman created an everyman character of a twelve-year-old boy called Timothy Hunter, who would need to be given an extensive tour of the DC magical universe before being able to decide if he should embrace or reject his destiny as the world's greatest magician.

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau ( who reviewed the book for the New York Times ), and was called “ one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written ” by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

The three supernatural female figures called variously the Ladies, Mother of the Camenae, the Kindly Ones, and a number of other different names in The Sandman comic books by Neil Gaiman, merge the figures of the Fates and the Maiden-Mother-Crone goddess.

* In the 2002 children's novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman, one of the characters is a black cat who acts as a wise yet snide guide to the protagonist, a girl called Coraline.

He initially started working professionally on strips and illustrations for a British satire magazine called The Truth in 1987 where he first worked with Neil Gaiman illustrating some of his articles.

Neil Gaiman called it " absolutely fun, like a roller-coaster ride of fusion fiction " and " the kind of book you simply don't want to stop reading.

The former is known as " the Gaiman variation " after Neil Gaiman's unsuccessful attempt, and the latter is called " the Eastman variation " after Kevin Eastman's unsuccessful attempt.

Grimoires called Paginarum Fulvarum ( Yellow Pages ) also appear in Good Omens ( co-written by Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ) and Gaiman's Sandman comic book.

As with all the dolls, Neil Gaiman wrote short " stories " about each of the girls with their respective song ( the text was later released in the tour book / calendar called Strange Days.

Further collaborations with Gaiman produced the graphic novels Signal to Noise in 1992 ( previously serialized in The Face magazine ), about a dying filmmaker and his hypothetical last film ; and Mr. Punch, which explored similar themes as Violent Cases through the imagery of the Punch and Judy show.

Rieber's last issue was issue # 50, coincidentally the point at which original co-creator Neil Gaiman decided that the time was right to stop " taking DC's $ 200 an issue and not doing anything " and resigned as creative consultant on the book.

* In the fantasy novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Johnny Appleseed describes the State of Franklin as the home of the last remaining Thunderbirds.

While promoting the novel, Neil Gaiman said that it was " unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years ", a statement which has most often been read hyperbolically.

Pratchett calls it a " shared joke ", and in the dedication to Equal Rites thanks Gaiman for lending him the last surviving copy of the book.

Gaiman wrote the screenplay, and would also direct, with Guillermo del Toro as executive producer.

The screenplay was written by Neil Gaiman, from a story by Gaiman and McKean.

Gaiman wrote the screenplay in February 2002, and said that they always knew that it would be a coming of age story about a girl on a quest, but that later they learned " that it really was just the story of the relationship between a girl and her mother.

According to Gaiman, the studio " may still be New Line, but Warner Independent is keen on it too.

On October 14, 2010 it was reported in an interview with Gaiman that as of June or July, DC and Warner Bros. had closed down work on the film and it was unclear if they would start it up again.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's " Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch " contains reference to the broth as the substance in Anathema Device's mug when she is run into by Aziraphale and Crowley.

* Neil Gaiman, in the first issue of his comic Sandman, introduced the grimoire titled Grimorium Magdelene.

Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist Clive Barker, prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. Giger.

The online community allows the sharing of images and techniques, and celebrity lomographic camera owners include Elijah Wood, Neil Gaiman and The White Stripes.

They include Elijah Wood, Neil Gaiman, and The White Stripes.

* Neil Gaiman wrote a story personifying the month in his collection Fragile Things entitled October in the Chair.

* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, a 1994 graphic novel by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, explores a boy's memories triggered by a Punch and Judy show.

He adds to this statement in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, an analysis by Neil Gaiman.

Neil Gaiman, in a promotional " penny dreadful ", identified a number of earlier texts that feed into the Todd story, some dating back to at least the late 17th century.

Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli were to have created a Sweeney Todd adaptation for Taboo, published by Steve Bissette and Tundra, but only completed a prologue.

Early in her professional career, Amos befriended author Neil Gaiman, who became a fan after she referenced him in the song " Tear in Your Hand " and also in print interviews.

Gaiman is godfather to her daughter and a poem written for her birth, Blueberry Girl, was published as a children's book of the same name in 2009.

* Neil Gaiman named a debauched bar in the underworld " The Hellfire Club " in his epic comic-book series The Sandman.

In turn, she has influenced Booker prize winners and other writers, such as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell — and notable futurism and fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks.

Notable examples include books by Tolkien, George_R. _R. _Martin and Neil Gaiman.

During his tenure, he interviewed such luminaries as John Carpenter, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and other writers, producers, actors and directors.

Gaiman stated this as the starting point for the character, and imagining " Who would own a cat like this?

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

While months later Berger offered Gaiman a comic title to work on, he was unsure his Sandman pitch would be accepted.

Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

* Untitled Sandman Project ( 2013 ): Neil Gaiman announced via video in the San Diego Comic Con 2012 that he and JH Williams III would collaborate to produce the story that was previously hinted in Gaiman's introduction to Season of Mists and in Brief Lives of Dream's adventure prior to Preludes and Nocturnes which had exhausted him so much that it made Burgess ' actions capable of capturing him.

He is the fourth eldest of the Endless, and is depicted as a big, red-haired, bearded man ( somewhat resembling actor Brian Blessed ; Gaiman has mentioned that he would like Blessed to play Destruction in the event of a Sandman movie ).

In 1997 the two signed a deal in which Gaiman would give his share of characters Angela, Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro to McFarlane in exchange of McFarlane's share of British superhero Marvelman ( in reality, what McFarlane actually owned were two trademarks for Miracleman logos, not the character, which would become clear only after the lawsuit concluded ).

Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.

Gaiman and Vess originally intended the story to be released complete, as a single book, which would better reproduce the painted illustrations of Vess and be a " story book " for all ages, and a release in this format was made in 1998.

This soon expanded into plots for Gross ' entire 25 issue run, despite Gross initially being nervous that his writing efforts would be unfavorably compared to those of Gaiman and Rieber by the series ' fans.

Neil Gaiman announced during his The Today Show appearance on 27 January 2009, that Neil Jordan would be directing the film of his Newbery Medal-winning book The Graveyard Book.

As part of his comic The Sandman, writer Neil Gaiman planned a small arc involving William Shakespeare entering a deal with the Dream King to write plays that would live on after him.

One ambiguous scene written by Gaiman was interpreted by some to suggest that Queen Titania was the mother of the comic's main character, Timothy Hunter, which ensured that the character would return when the mini-series became an ongoing series.

After being shown a short film directed by McKean, Lisa Henson contacted Gaiman in 2001 about the project, asking if McKean would be interested in directing and if Gaiman was interested in coming up with the story for the film.