The Ephemerist

Neil Gaiman preaching, and Scott McCloud lecturing. Sights for sore eyes…

(from the Politics and Prose Bookstore Flickr Page)

It’s only 42 seconds, but what seconds !

Here’s a little game for you all. The image above shows three very famous British comics writers. Can you guess them all ?

Update - as numerous people have told me, this is the work of David Oakes, who has a whole showcase of neat comic-related Lego stuff at his website, including the Watchmen, Hourman and Sandman (my favorite Golden Age characters) and The Endless. Do check it out !

Just to make a point clear - it was never my intention to feast on David’s inspiration. During this 40th Birthday Marathon, I mostly posted stuff that I had shared in my Comics Ephemerist Yahoo Group. I had simply forgotten where I got this, and googling for “neil gaiman lego figure” didn’t bring anything up either — oops, now I’ve given the answer away. Oh, well…

Teddy Kristiansen gives us a look at a new work in progress. It’s the cover for Neil Gaiman’s new book, ‘M is for Magic’. I like it.

Nerve is doing a Comics Issue this month, with new work added by Paul Pope, Sophie Crumb, Andi Watson (!), Chynna Clugston, Jim Mahfood (!) and Meg Hunt. Also interviews with Alison Bechdell, Peter Bagge, Evan Dorkin and Roz Chast. And finally a pretty good article on how teenagers relate to Neil Gaiman’s Endless.

Which reminds me, I have been reading quite a few old DC horror comics lately (thanks to the scanning community). It struck me that almost the complete backup roster of characters to The Sandman, which I thought was Neil Gaiman’s own invention, came from there ! The three witches, Eve, Cain, Abel, Destiny, there all there. Which, of course, doesn’t take anything away from Neil’s genius in tieing it all up into a neatly layered universe, but still…