Ghastly Beyond Belief (bad quotes from sci-fi novels, movies, and advertisements edited by Gaiman and Kim Newman 352 pages, Arrow, 1985, ISBN 0-7).Duran Duran: The First Four Years of the Fab Five (biography of the pop group Duran Duran 126 pages, Proteus Publishing, 1984, ISBN 9-6).And the talented roster of creators who worked on these series also speaks to the strength of these creations.Neil Gaiman autographing a copy of Coraline, National Book Fair, Washington, D.C., 2005 It's a testament to Neil's gifts as a storyteller that he created not just one but several concepts for Tekno Comix, the original publisher of this material.
While creators developing concepts for other artists to execute is a fairly common practice now, it was much rarer in the mid-90s, when these books first appeared. Papercutz and NBM Publisher Terry Nantier understands the publishing context of these important works and brings us the background of collaborative projects in the 90's: For most of them, it will be like discovering buried treasure, giving them a whole new branch of Neil's work to explore. By collecting them in to trade paperback and hardcover editions we hope to not only appeal to the hardcore Gaiman completists but also the huge 'civilian' audience for Neil's comics work and mass market fiction. With trade paperback collections not enjoying the same popularity when these titles were originally published (and digital editions barely extant) the only way to read these stories has been by seeking out the original back issues.īut much of Neil's audience isn't even aware of the existence of these titles. Papercutz VP of Marketing Sven Larsen agrees, saying: My personal collection came from diving through forgotten long boxes in the back of a bric a brac shop in a town that had barely heard of comics and I could only feel as a comics scholar that I'd retrieved comics history gold. Henderson, James Vance, Paul Jenkins, Rick Veitch, Mike Netzer, Steve Lieber, Fred Harper, Bryan Talbot, Dan Brereton, Angus McKie and Bill Sienkiwiecz all worked in these storyworlds, but the long hiatus in the availability of these comics has left a gap in our appreciation of Gaiman's work, as well as these esteemed creators. These three lines of comics were originally created by Neil Gaiman in the sense that he drafted their character concepts and "series bibles" in the mid 1990's for Tekno Comics and major writers and artists then took up the mantle to make the ongoing series their own.
Hero, and Teknophage, kicking off in Spring of 2015 with the first volume of Lady Justice. Today, Papercutz announces that their Super Genius line will be re-publishing Gaiman's Lady Justice, Mr.
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