Of course, the moment the thing was handed in and absolutely there, I sort of looked around and starting going, “But, but, where was that? And why didn’t I put that in? And I would have loved to put this in … ” And sometimes I sort of looked back and figured out why I’d left things out. There was that sort of horrible continuous feeling of, Oh, I’ve forgotten something. Huge amounts of hand-wringing and regret. It seemed as if there could have been a lot of hand-wringing and regret involved in putting together this volume of Best American Comics. as editor of The Best American Comics 2010 - or, as he has suggested calling it, “A Sampler: Some Really Good Comics, Including Extracts from Longer Stories We Thought Could Stand on Their Own.” Though Gaiman has become a prodigious member of the Twitterati, followed by about 1.5 million fans, we recently sat down with him and asked him to go long, very long: Instead of 140 characters, we’ve got over 25,000 in our latest Vulture Transcript, covering, well, just about everything: from selecting the best work in a golden age of comics to killing Batman, from reading Sandman on the iPad to being an accidental cyberbully.
Now the author of The Sandman and Coraline is adding another notch on his C.V. Neil Gaiman is a Swiss Army Knife sci-fi-and-fantasy storytelling star: He’s successfully written comic books, adult novels, kids’ fiction, TV scripts, film scripts, and even songs for musicians, including his real-life fiancée Amanda Palmer.
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