Author Spotlight: Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is not only an immensely popular graphic novelist and comic book writer with a cult following, but also infallibly hits the best seller list when a novel is published. He has also been given the honour of appearing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography’s top ten living post modern writers list.

Bibliography:

Comics and graphic novels

• Tharg’s Future Shocks (2000)*
• Violent Cases (1987)*
• Black Orchid #1-3 (1988)*
• The Light Brigade (1988)
• Redfox #20 (1989)
• Swamp Thing Annual (1990)
• The Sandman #1-75 (1989-1996)
• Miracleman #17-24 (1992)*
• Books of Magic #1-4 (1991)*
• Being an Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus (1991)
• Signal to Noise (Dark Horse Comics, 1992)*
• Death: The High Cost of Living #1-3 (1994)*
• The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch (1994)*
• The Last Temptation (1994)*
• Angela #1-3 (1994/1995)
• Death: The Time of Your Life #1-3 (1997)*
• Stardust (Being A Romance Within The Realm of Faerie) #1-4 (1997-1998)*
• Neil Gaiman’s Only The End of the World Again (2000)*
• Neil Gaiman’s Midnight Days (1999)*
• Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame (2000)*
• Harlequin Valentine (2001)*
• Murder Mysteries (2002)*
• Marvel 1602 #1-8 (2003)*
• Endless Nights (2003)*
• Eternals (2006)

Prose

• Duran Duran: The Book (1984)*
• Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations (1985)*
• Don’t Panic: The Official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Companion (A guide to Douglas Adams’ trilogy) (1988)
• Good Omens (1990)*
• Angels and Visitations (a collection of short stories) (1993)*
• Now we are Sick (1994)*
• SimCity 2000 (1995)
• The Sandman: Book of Dreams (1996)*
• Neverwhere (1997)
• On Cats and Dogs: Two Tales (1997)
• Smoke and Mirrors (1998)
• The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (1998)*
• Stardust (1999)
• Sandman: The Dream Hunters (1999)*
• American Gods (2001)
• Murder Mysteries: A Play for Voices (2001)
• Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (2001)*
• Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002)
• Snow, Glass, Apples: A Play for Voices (2002)
• A Walking Tour of the Shambles (2002)*
• Coraline (2002)*
• The Wolves in the Walls (2003)*
• Melinda (2003/04)*
• Fragile Things (2006)
• Anansi Boys (2005)

Film/television

• Neverwhere (TV series) (1996)*
• Princess Mononoke (1997)*
• The episode Day of the Dead from the fifth season of Babylon 5 (1998)
• A Short Film About John Bolton (2003)
• MirrorMask (2005)*
• Stardust (2007)*
• Beowulf (2007)*

Works followed by and asterisk (*) were all created in conjunction with other people, or are texts that contain a piece of Gaiman’s writing.