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Neil Gaiman is the guest of honor at ICon this year, so I went to see him speak tonight, and will do so tomorrow night again. I am skipping the reading he's giving on Thursday, though, and the vote is still up on whether I want to spend a couple of hours in line Friday morning to get a book signed.
I've seen Gaiman before at San Diego, but that was an hour he shared with Dave McKean speaking of nothing but MirrorMask. Tonight was much more the real deal - an hour was spent on a short but very funny autobiography, his experience in comics and some excellent tales about his grandfather. It went to Q&A after that, with such crowd-pleasers as "what's your favorite comic?" and "who is your favorite artist you worked with?".
Tomorrow is a longer Q&A session, but moderated by one of the nicest guys in the Israeli SF community. So hopefully we'll get some good stuff.
I've seen Gaiman before at San Diego, but that was an hour he shared with Dave McKean speaking of nothing but MirrorMask. Tonight was much more the real deal - an hour was spent on a short but very funny autobiography, his experience in comics and some excellent tales about his grandfather. It went to Q&A after that, with such crowd-pleasers as "what's your favorite comic?" and "who is your favorite artist you worked with?".
Tomorrow is a longer Q&A session, but moderated by one of the nicest guys in the Israeli SF community. So hopefully we'll get some good stuff.