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elias-td asked:
Hello, Mr. Gaiman, I was watching Good Omens episode 2, and wondered about something. When they're at the United holdings [holdings] PLC Interactive Combat Course and Crowley has Aziraphale pinned against the wall, he says: "I'm a demon, I'm not nice, I'm never nice, nice is a four letter word", what does Crowley have against four letter words?
Neil why does that wikipedia link say hello your excellency mr gaiman
Click on the link and you will find out.
jackmdz asked:
Hi Neil! I don't know if you've been asked this before, but whose idea was it to put Queen songs in Good Omens? Was it your idea or Terry's?
I hope you can answer this, thank you! <3
It was ours. It was a mutual joke between us that I then put in the book.
Favorite Gaiman’s female character ? (2/…)
Misses Spink and Forcible (Coraline)
Anathema Device (Good Omens)
Wanda (Sandman)
Mrs Owens (The Graveyard Book)
Bilquis (American Gods)
Rosie Noah (Anansi Boys)
Lamia (Neverwhere)
War (Good Omens)
Delirium (Sandman)
The Other Mother (Coraline)
Yes, some characters are still missing. You can only have 10 options per poll. I’ll make others, please keep mentioning female characters you’ll like to see (yes, I noted Death already).
Favorite Gaiman’s female character ? (3/…)
Death (Sandman) - I already feel bad for the other options
Madame Tracy (Good Omens)
Miss Lupescu (The Graveyard Book)
Anaesthesia (Neverwhere)
Barbie (Sandman)
Laura Moon (American Gods)
Idris (Doctor Who)
Thessaly (Sandman)
Una (Stardust)
Ursula Monkton (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)
Eventually, part 3 ! You can still share your favorites who haven’t made it so far.
Favorite Gaiman’s female character ? (4/…)
Scarlett Amber Perkins (The Graveyard Book)
Serpentine (Neverwhere)
Helena (MirrorMask)
Lyta Hall (Sandman)
Hazel (Sandman)
Agnes Nutter (Good Omens)
Media (American Gods)
Madame Semele (Stardust)
Susan (The Problem of Susan)
The Queen (The Sleeper and the Spindle)
I used some others of your suggestions for this one, keep making those, they’re quite helpful !
Favorite Gaiman’s female character ? (5/…)
Ginnie Hempstock (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)
Johanna Constantine (Sandman)
Lucy (The Wolves in the Walls)
Mercy (The Last Temptation)
Triolet (How to Talk to Girls at Parties)
Mrs Whitaker (Chivalry)
Maeve Livingstone (Anansi Boys)
Missy (Harlequin Valentine)
Bast (American Gods)
Despair (Sandman)
I’m still taking suggestions.
elias-td asked:
Hello, Mr. Gaiman, I was watching Good Omens episode 2, and wondered about something. When they're at the United holdings [holdings] PLC Interactive Combat Course and Crowley has Aziraphale pinned against the wall, he says: "I'm a demon, I'm not nice, I'm never nice, nice is a four letter word", what does Crowley have against four letter words?
viennawaltzondvd asked:
hi i picked up a copy of finn family moomintroll from my library, and your little review (“a masterpiece”) is right on the cover. i was just wondering how you came to do a blurb for this book, and why this book out of all the moomin books?
The quote I gave was for the reprint of the original (and at that time forgotten) newspaper strips in 2006. The book was sent to me by Peggy Burns at Drawn and Quarterly, who knew I’d loved the original Moomin books as a kid and thought I might enjoy the newspaper strips that Tove Jannson had created. I wrote about the book on my blog. https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/11/surthanksgivingrealism.html
After I put up the blog, Peggy wrote to me and said
we really liked what you said about the strip “which is one of the
sweetest, strangest surrealist strips in history" and are hoping that you may want to shape it into a blurb that we may use for Volume 2?
So I wrote:
A lost treasure now rediscovered, one of the sweetest, strangest comics strips ever drawn or written. A surrealist masterpiece. Honest. —Neil Gaiman